Finance + Economic Development

We help clients achieve their project goals by providing expertise in a broad range of grant and financial planning opportunities. Our finance and economic services include assisting clients with project funding identification, procurement, and administration, which often involves application assistance, meeting and consulting with local, state, and federal agencies, and assisting in the development of an adequate documentation basis for funding.

Our knowledge of and experience with financing strategies and grant writing affords us the opportunity to not only recommend and obtain funding for communities, but to also successfully comply with the multitude of regulatory measures that inherently accompany these financial resources. We help clients obtain grant funding and financing from a variety of federal, state, and local programs and agencies:

Federal

  • U.S. Economic Development Administration
  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
  • U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development – Community Development Block Grant Program

State

  • Departments of Transportation
  • State Environmental Protection Agencies
  • Ohio Department of Development
  • Ohio Department of Natural Resources
  • Ohio Water Development Authority

Local Tax Incentives

  • Joint Economic Industrial Development Districts
  • Transportation Improvement Districts
  • Tax Increment Financing
  • Community Reinvestment Areas
  • Other Tax Incentive Programs