Posts tagged Tax Breaks
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Breakfast links: Running to hit
Ehrlich would kill Purple, Red lines; Bam; Damn kids!; Red Line passenger expires; $40 million bus stop?; Francoise car-rier?; Stuff getting built with DC public money. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Ways of talking
Teen struck by bullet; Obnoxious GGW commenters make the Post; How to pay for streetcars; Fewer homes on the market: good?; Yglesias on cities; Meters everywhere but no money; And…. Keep reading…
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Afternoon links: Nonsense
National Highways-In-Parks Service?; Wilson Building ATM machine still running; Silver Line car price fight; Finalists selected for Planning Board; More cents and sense for Bethesda parking; Tenleytown: 60 years of anti; So high-speed, it never stops; Post’s new network. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Rich counties should support transit
FairShareMetro.com; NACTO keeps taking our great people; Why are our suburbs so rich?; Enough on the tax breaks?; Growth at any cost, anywhere; Oops, we built in an environmentally sensitive spot; Sarles: good manager, not so open?. Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Extend the lane
Ward 1 ANC supports bike lane; DumbBike after the snow; Eight feet for Seven Locks; Road rager gets 5; Montgomery’s density debates; Who can give the most?; SAD = Saw Avatar Depression?; And…. Keep reading…
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Give me a break: Tax incentives should be regional, not local
Yesterday, the DC Council approved a $6 million tax break for CoStar to move from downtown Bethesda to DC. To address criticism from small businesses and nonprofits that moving CoStar wouldn’t actually create new DC jobs since Bethesda is right on the Metro, the Council added several amendments to the deal. They now have to add 100 new jobs for DC residents, hire DC residents… Keep reading…
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Breakfast links: Shaken up
Keep Catoe; What about those feds?; More open data and cool ways to use it; Groups criticize CoStar tax break; Not so many taxi tickets; Kwame is sorry for speeding; Architizer or starchitizer?. Keep reading…
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Deputy Mayor wants to give $7 million to one tech company
Next year will be tough for many DC residents, companies, and agencies. But it could be a good year to be a “high technology commercial real estate database and service provider.” Under a new bill introduced in the DC Council, these businesses, and only these businesses, would get up to $700,000 in annual property tax breaks for 10 years — a $7 million subsidy. Keep reading…
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Make developer tax breaks more transparent
by Liz Williams New legislation introduced in the DC Council this week would put important limits on efforts of developers to get large tax breaks for their projects. This long-overdue bill would require developers to show exactly why they need a tax subsidy from the city, and what they’ll offer as community benefits in return. It couldn’t come at a better time. It’s a… Keep reading…