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About Development Districts, Public/Private Partnerships & Developing Downtown

May 30, 2018

• Agenda
• Development Districts in Georgia
• How to Draft Good CID Legislation & What’s Wrong with your CID Legislation… and How to Fix It
• A Perspective on Cumberland
• Update: The Doraville GM Site Redevelopment Project
• 7 Things You Have To Know About Public/Private Partnerships in Georgia
• Incentives That Work for Retail, Commercial and Downtown Districts
• The “Private” Role in a Public-Private Partnership
• Hotels are Hard
• Financing the Public and Private Components of a Major Project – Bonds
• Tool Time: Structures, Incentives, and Capital
• New Markets Tax Credits
• Creating A Capital Stack For Your Project
• Warner Robins: 2017 Year in Review and 2018 Outlook
• 5 New Ways to Finance Infrastructure for a Developer Without a Referendum

March 7, 2018 – Macon

• Agenda
• The Economic Development Community in Georgia – Kevin Shea
• Development Authorities and Financing Economic Development
  • Module 1: Why We Have Development Authorities Where They Came From; What They Can Do – Dan McRae, Seyfarth Shaw
  • Module 2: Some Things Development Authorities Can’t Do and some workarounds to do them anyway – Dan McRae, Seyfarth Shaw
  • Module 3: What Bonds Development Authorities Can and Can’t Issue and why – Dan McRae, Seyfarth Shaw
• Using TADs, Redevelopment Districts & Public/Private Partnerships to revitalize downtown, create mixed-use developments, and attract business and industry
  The roles of your development authority and your other local authorities Illustrated by successful case studies – Charles Whatley, Warner Robins Economic Development
  Gary Lee, Warner Robins Economic Development
• Small Business Credit Initiative – Holly Hunt
• The Growing Trend- International Projects
  Why Georgia (and some other states) Use “Bonds for Title”
  Your Competition-What Other States Are Doing
• Integrating Fiscal Impact into Your Economic Development Strategy and GASB 77 Reporting – Alfie Meek
• Open Meetings, Open Records/Ethics, Liabilities – Kevin Brown