Enhanced Enterprise Zones (EEZs)- Local governments establish Enhanced Enterprise Zones as an economic development tool to attract new businesses to the area or to incentivize existing businesses to expand....more
The month of September was a bad month for the City of Minneapolis’s 2040 Comprehensive Plan (2040 Comp Plan). On September 5, 2023, Minnesota’s Fourth Judicial District (Hennepin County) released a decision temporarily...more
What You Need to Know - •On August 14, 2023, the EDA posted the draft assessment agreement forms and model municipal opt-in form required for the program to become operational. •The newly released documents complement the...more
The Colorado Legislature recently addressed that Colorado is experiencing a lack of affordable housing at critical levels. On May 20, 2022, Colorado governor Jared Polis signed into law House Bill 22-1282. The act, called...more
We previously released a client alert outlining key amendments to the UAE’s Companies Law, which came into effect on June 1, 2021. Most importantly, these amendments eliminated a section of the Companies Law that required 51...more
In November 2020, we released a client alert (available here) outlining significant amendments to the U.A.E.’s Companies Law that were yet to take effect at the time of writing. Most importantly, these amendments were to...more
Last year, a new law was enacted requiring public and private employers to comply with Florida’s new E-Verify mandates, with Fla. Stat. § 448.095 of the Florida Statutes taking effect on January 1, 2021. The law makes the use...more
In response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, St. Louis economic development organizations are offering financial assistance in the form of loans and grants to small businesses and their owners and employees throughout the...more
On January 24, 2019, Governor Phil Murphy signed an executive order creating a Tax Incentives Task Force to investigate fraud and loopholes in New Jersey’s existing tax incentives system and to address monitoring and...more
On October 31, Governor Dannel Malloy signed into law Connecticut’s bipartisan budget bill, which provides for a tax incentive plan to support brownfields remediation and reuse. The new plan, called the 7/7 Brownfields...more
Buried in an 881-page budget bill passed Thursday by the Connecticut General Assembly was a new program to support remediation and reuse of brownfields – properties long contaminated and underutilized – as well as new job...more
On June 1, 2017, the state of New York’s Department of Economic Development (the department) issued draft forms and guidance to capture employee salary information from New York state contractors and subcontractors pursuant...more