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Austin’s first-ever community displacement prevention officer, Nefertitti Jackmon (Photo by John Anderson)
When Austin voters approved financing for the Project Connect transit plan in November 2020, they created along with it a $300 million anti-displacement fund, aiming to offset the increase in housing costs expected along the corridors served by new rail and rapid bus routes. While that investment makes up a small slice of that $7.1 billion pie, it s the largest program of its kind to be launched in the U.S., and it nearly doubles the amount of city tax dollars that voters have approved for affordable housing.
As the city s first community displacement prevention officer, Nefertitti Jackmon will have the task of overseeing that fund. She describes the opportunity as equally exciting as it is daunting. Indeed, the fund will be closely monitored not just locally, but also nationally because of its unprecedented scope. Jackmon was encouraged by the vote and s
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BOULDER Boulder’s leading business and economic-development organization is expressing its support for Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp.’s ambitious plans to expand its Commerce Street campus.
“This is an opportunity that our community can and should embrace,” Boulder Chamber president John Tayer told BizWest Friday. “We’ll look forward to helping to meet their expectations for this planned expansion and to support them in meeting their goals of building important understanding of space and science.”
An artist rendering shows proposed new buildings within the Ball Corp. campus. Courtesy Boulder planning documents.
The aerospace arm of Westminster-based metal-packaging manufacturer Ball Corp. (NYSE: BLL) has submitted preliminary plans to the city that show the intent to extend its planned unit development agreement and build three new buildings at its 1600 Commerce St. campus that would add 375,000 square feet on the roughly 27-acre site.
Economic developers from Weld, Larimer, Broomfield and Boulder counties expect the new year to be somewhat better than the year just past, but they have caveats.
“We’ll hold the line in 2021, and it could be a reasonably good year if we see similar stimulus activity,” said Josh Birks, economic health director for the city of Fort Collins.
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