Tax Increment Financing:
Understanding the Use and Impact
of Local Development Incentives
on Communities
Thursday, April 9, 2009 || 3:00-4:30 p.m.
J.C. Penney Conference Center, Room 126
University of Missouri–St. Louis
One University Boulevard
FREE parking in Lot C.
Panelists:
Andrew Glassberg, Department of Political Science, UMSL
Mark Fogal, East-West Gateway Council of Governments
Jacqueline Davis-Wellington, St. Louis County Economic Council
Carol Waggoner, Development Strategies
Click here for a PDF file (258 KB) of Andrew Glassberg's slides
Click here for a PDF file (1.6 MB) of Mark Fogal's slides
Over the past 15 years, $2.5 billion in public money has been committed to supporting private development through tax increment financing and taxing districts. What are the short-term effects of a TIF development on a community? Do the long-term strategies pay off for a community? What is the overall impact?
Join us on Thursday, April 9, at 3:00 p.m. for a panel discussion on “Tax Increment Financing: Understanding the Use and Impact of Local Development Incentives on Communities.” The panel will examine the recent East-West Gateway interim report “An Assessment of the Effectiveness and Fiscal Impacts of the Use of Local Development Incentives in the St. Louis Region.”
