01 April 2019

Our Futures on The Line / Downsides In Opportunity Zones

Missed this 3-day gathering last week at ASU, but here's a group image taken from social media. Any more information and details would certainly be appreciated when the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank is one of the participants. At the center second row is Terry Benelli, President/CEO of  
LISC Phoenix, a national non-profit financial intermediary that helps put capital into communities that are ready and are the things the community actually wants to do.
Front row, 2nd from left is Kimber Lanning, founder of Local First Arizona.
There are 11 Opportunity Zones here in Mesa . . . What's happening here. Who's doing it? ...and
what are "the downsides' here in The Old-Donut Hole when the public isn't involved?
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You can also use the search box on this blog to look more into any number of posts on that subject that are also focused on what's fair, equitable, inclusive and affordable. Most investments that have caught the attention of mainstream media are for wealth-creation in real estate speculation, notably former AZ State Senator Bob Worsley Worsley scooping up ten commercial properties on Main Street [and two other investor wealth-creation groups] in holding companies and a 9.6-acre mixed-up development in The Temple Area by a for-profit affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of The Latter-Day Saints with a smaller-scale replica of the 23-acre City Creek in Salt Lake City, Utah that was planned with city officials for years where no financial details were disclosed to the public.
Says Robert Steuteville, editor of Public Square: A CNU Journal and senior communications adviser for the Congress for the New Urbanism:
The biggest support will come where the public sector has established the ground rules and infrastructure for compact urbanism. 
Opportunity Zones will help those who help themselves

How many of the zones have plans, infrastructure, and coding in place for significant mixed-use development?
Preparation is key.
“What's the difference between an Opportunity Zone project idea, and an opportunity zone project?
One word: Readiness,” notes Ian Ross, founder of the website Oppsites.
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LISC Phoenix added,
terry benelli @terrybmesa  
The downsides are why it’s important that the people already living and working within lead the way in their communities -
 
Let's set a vision; guide investment!
 
 
Ms. Terry Benelli has been Executive Director of Phoenix Program at Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) since January 01, 2015. According to a release
Smart Incentives talked with city leaders about specific steps to connect their incentive programs to equitable economic development goals during a webinar offered with the National League of Cities for the Equitable Economic Development (EED) Fellowship program. The EED encourages cities to leverage their local economic development strategies to create more equitable access to opportunities within all of their communities. 
Incentive programs can be deployed in multiple ways to support more equitable or inclusive economic development by following these principles . . .
Published on Sep 21, 2018
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