[CPEO-BIF] Waterloo, Iowa enterprise zones

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Enterprise zone expanded to entice developers to inner city

By TIM JAMISON
Waterloo Cedar Falls Courier (IA)
March 14, 2006

WATERLOO --- Two empty schools, a blighted former defense contractor, 
soon-to-be-vacant John Deere buildings and some bare east Waterloo 
ground itching for a home builder have all been given a leg up in 
attracting potential developers.

The five sites have been declared "enterprise zones" by the Waterloo 
City Council, making future developers eligible for large tax breaks and 
other incentives designed to encourage reuse of inner city assets over 
urban sprawl.

"We basically tried to focus the enterprise zone on where we thought the 
greatest possibility of people using them would be," said City Planner 
Noel Anderson.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.wcfcourier.com/articles/2006/03/14/news/metro/f480a1bb8882a28186257131004b9478.txt

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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