The Good Jobs First Subsidy Tracker database reached a new milestone as the number of programs from which it draws information passed 400. Tracker now has more than 247,000 entries from 409 programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
Most of the latest additions are the results of our effort to obtain data from cities and counties. Given that localities are far behind states in putting subsidy information online, most of what we gather is unpublished information obtained via informal and formal open records requests to economic development agencies.
The localities for which we have just added such information are: Albuquerque, Baltimore; Kansas City, Missouri; Columbus, Ohio, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Janesville, Wisconsin; and Bloomington, Indiana.
We also got unpublished data on Alaska’s Oil and Gas Production Tax Credits and Louisiana’s Gulf Opportunity Zone bond program. The latter is technically a federal program, but the bond allocations are made by the Louisiana State Bond Commission.
Here’s a complete list of the recent additions:
- Alaska: Oil and Gas Production Tax Credits (2009-2010)
- Indiana: Bloomington Sustainable Partnership Grant (2009-2011)
- Indiana: Bloomington Urban Enterprise Zone Incentives (2009-2011)
- Louisiana: Gulf Opportunity Zone Program (2006-2011)
- Maryland: Baltimore Development Corporation Brownfields Program (2012)
- Maryland: Baltimore Development Corporation Business Assistance Programs (2005-2010)
- Maryland: Baltimore Development Corporation Loan Program (2005-Oct 2012)
- Maryland: Baltimore Development Corporation PILOTs (2003-Oct 2012)
- Maryland: Baltimore Development Corporation TIF Projects (2003-Oct 2012)
- Maryland: Baltimore Enterprise Zones (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids Brownfield Redevelopment Program (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids Industrial Facilities Property Tax Exemptions (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids New Personal Property Exemptions (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act Exemptions (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids Renaissance Zone Extensions (2005-Oct 2012)
- Michigan: Grand Rapids Tool & Die Renaissance Zones (2005-Oct 2012)
- Missouri: Kansas City Enhanced Enterprise Zone Local Property Tax Abatement (2009-Aug 2012)
- Missouri: Kansas City LCRA Property Tax Abatement (2009-Aug 2012)
- New Mexico: Albuquerque Industrial Revenue Bonds (2008-Aug 2012)
- Ohio: Columbus Downtown Office Incentive (2009-2011)
- Ohio: Columbus Enterprise Zone (2009-2011)
- Ohio: Columbus Jobs Growth Incentive (2009-2011)
- Wisconsin: Janesville Development Opportunity Zone Tax Credits (2009-Oct 2012)
- Wisconsin: Janesville TIF Forgivable Loans (2009-Oct 2012)