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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES FOR 2011

  1. Incentivize catalytic projects to advance the city’s economic recovery by closing $205 million in real estate transactions, leveraging $418 million in additional public and private investments
    • Create a redevelopment framework and execute MOU for the Stadium Neighborhoods Tax Allocation District
    • Close inaugural Perry-Bolton Tax Allocation District bond issue
    • Obtain APS Board of Education support for the use of tax increment and advance projects within the four commercial tax allocation districts; a) Metropolitan Pkwy, b) Stadium Neighborhoods, c) Campbellton Road and d) Martin Luther King Jr. Drive/DL Hollowell Pkwy.
    • Offer creative financing tools and incentives to stimulate capital investment
    • Focus on and support transit-oriented development initiatives
  2. Create 1,150 new jobs through business retention, expansion and attraction
    • Catalyze industrial and commercial development by adding or leasing 540,000 square feet of space
    • Attract international business investment by marketing intown Atlanta to foreign firms
    • Lead city’s business marketing initiatives
    • Support enhancement of workforce development initiatives
    • Seek new capital to fund additional small business lending programs and spur entrepreneurial activity
  3. Stabilize neighborhoods by incentivizing 2,700 units of residential housing
    • Create new financing vehicles and incentives for the multifamily “affordable” developer
    • Complete citywide assessment of vacant housing stock
    • Cultivate strategic partnerships with developers and lenders of REO properties
    • Reduce vacancies and encourage home ownership via downpayment assistance for buyers and education for intown realtors



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Atlanta Fun Fact

Did you know, for every 1,000 new tons generated in air cargo at Hartsfield-Jackson airport adds 10 to 15 new jobs for the City of Atlanta? (Source:  Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce)


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