Deadlines & Calendar of Events
Rolling applications
Indiana Office of Community and Rural Affairs (OCRA) Historic Renovation Grant Program is open for applications. The program is designed to preserve and rehabilitate historic properties to further incentivize downtown economic development across Indiana. Applicants with an eligible historic commercial structure have the opportunity to apply for project funding between $5,000 and $100,000 at a maximum request of 50 percent of the total eligible project cost. Eligible applicants include non-profits, individuals, partnerships, firms, associations, joint ventures, limited liability companies, corporations or non-profit affordable housing organizations.
Deadlines
Please join us on January 31, 2023 for a special webinar with the authors of the “Thriving Downtowns” investment playbook!
Released in summer 2022, the Playbook (attached) does a great job of breaking down the process for helping small towns attract investment. It includes practical approaches re: how to get started and gain traction to initiate and sustain downtown redevelopment.
Examples included are from Regions 3, 4, 5: OH (Shawnee); VA (Pulaski); WV (Princeton & Grafton); KY (Hazard, Hyden & Pineville). While not brownfields-specific, the info in here is very relevant to efforts to help small & rural downtowns.
More info on the playbook is described here https://wvhub.org/2022/08/an-investment-playbook-for-rural-appalachia/.
No registration needed! Just join at https://usepa.zoomgov.com/j/1608913546
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April 29, 2022
DEADLINE: Indiana OCRA CDBG Round 1 Proposals (includes Blight Clearance Program)
*Note that dates/plans could change. The applicant must be a local unit of government and comply with other requirements.
For more information, check out https://www.in.gov/ocra/cdbg/.
July 1, 2022
DEADLINE: Indiana OCRA CDBG Round 1 Applications(includes Blight Clearance Program)
*Note that dates/plans could change. The applicant must be a local unit of government and comply with other requirements.
For more information, check out https://www.in.gov/ocra/cdbg/.
Calendar of Events
April 25-26, 2022
WEBINAR: CDFA Intro Tax Increment Finance WebCourse
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern
This offers an in-depth look at the guiding principles and appropriate application of TIF. Topics discussed include the basics of TIF, negotiating and structuring TIF deals, understanding various financing structures, and combining TIF with different capital sources. Several case studies examples from active TIF deals will be presented with explanations for how the community was proactively engaged in the process.
April 27-28, 2022
WEBINAR: CDFA Advanced Tax Increment Finance WebCourse
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern
This builds upon curriculum from the Intro Tax Increment Finance Course by focusing more concretely on structuring the deal and developing short- and long-term policies. Attendees will also learn about performance monitoring, feasibility analysis, and using TIF in conjunction with other development finance tools.
June 15, 2022
Indiana OCRA CDBG Quarter 3 Planning Applications Open
Note that dates/plans could change. The applicant must be a local unit of government and comply with other requirements.
For more information, check out https://www.in.gov/ocra/cdbg/.
June 27-28, 2022
WEBINAR: CDFA Intro Infrastructure Finance WebCourse
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern
This will help communities understand the fundamental concepts behind infrastructure projects with a focus on raising capital (e.g., federal and state grants and loans, bonds, tax increment financing, tax credits, revolving loan funds, opportunity zones, etc.) to achieve local and regional needs. In addition, this webcourse will explore the cutting-edge structures and approaches being deployed to accelerate new investment in America’s 21st-century infrastructure.
June 29-30, 2022
WEBINAR: CDFA Intro Public-Private Partnership (P3) Finance WebCourse
12:00 PM – 5:00 PM Eastern
This examines this emerging development finance model with a focus on how development finance agencies can adopt P3 principles to address a variety of projects. This course will cover basic P3 concepts, key players involved in transactions, asset valuation, contract negotiation, risk assessment, revenue stream development, and feasibility analysis. In addition, several P3 projects from across the country will be presented, and P3 experts will analyze the successful elements in each deal.
August 16-19, 2022 – New Date!
National Brownfields Training Conference
U.S. EPA and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA), as conference co-sponsors, are committed to ensuring the conference provides the safest and most effective networking and learning environment possible, and so the previously scheduled December 2021 conference has been rescheduled for August 16-19, 2022. The conference will still be held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Offered every two years, this conference is considered the largest gathering of stakeholders focused on cleaning up and reusing formerly utilized commercial and industrial properties.