Rural Athens, Ohio Downtown Redevelopment Program Gains Major Boost

The City of Athens made a determination that it wanted to pursue multiple Downtown Redevelopment Districts (DRD) to take advantage of the wealth of historic structures that are in the City and to take advantage of the planned investments that Ohio University would be making in Athens over the next couple decades.  In June 2019

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Four Steps to Building the PPP for Site Development

A common misperception is that a big bag of tax incentives is the key to communities gaining large scale corporate site location projects. Incentives matter but they are the “icing and not the cake.”  Successful corporate site location projects often begin with the development of a site built through a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP). Site development projects

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Crawford County Ohio Launching Opportunity Zone Fund

The Montrose Group, LLC has been retained to support the launch of a Crawford County, Ohio Opportunity Fund focused on several certified Opportunity Fund sites in Galion and Bucyrus, Ohio.  These North Central Ohio communities are primarily rural in nature but have a long history based in manufacturing. Galion has focused its Opportunity Zone efforts

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