MILWAUKEE — When Madison officials in 2008 created a tax increment financing district for the city’s southwest side, they predicted the district’s property value would more than triple in the ...

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The weak development market is forcing municipalities in Wisconsin to scale back the amount of money they give to support new projects. The city of Cudahy, Wis., for example, plans to use ...

Subscribe to BizTimes Daily – Local news about the people, companies and issues that impact business in Milwaukee and Southeast Wisconsin. Tax incremental financing (TIF) allows cities or villages to ...

(The Center Square) – A bill that would create a tax benefit extension for a potential data center project in Port Washington will now also include Beaver Dam. Assembly Bill 175 allows for an ...

In light of recent discussions on tax increment finance districts in this paper, I wish to provide a look at the performance of TIFs from Wisconsin, where I lived and worked for 15 years before moving ...