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Strengths Snapshot
Our Economic Incentives attorneys draw on extensive experience and expertise to provide counsel in these and other areas:
- Tax increment financing
- Tax abatements and exemptions
- Tax credit programs (state and federal)
- Historic preservation
- Low income housing
- Grants
- Low-interest loans
- PILOTs
- Public and private bond programs
Incentive Practices
- Brownfield Redevelopment Tax Increment Financing
- Brownfield Michigan Business Tax Credit (MBT)
- New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC)
- MEGA Job Creation
- MEGA Job Retention
- Anchor Tenant Credit
- Film Infrastructure Credit
- Film Production Credit
- Film Jobs Training Credit
- Investment Tax Credits (State)
- Investment Tax Credits (Federal)
- PA 198 Industrial Property Tax Abatements
- Personal Property Tax Abatements (PA 328)
- Neighborhood Enterprise Zones
- Qualified Agricultural Property
- Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act
- Renaissance Zones (State)
- Michigan State Sales Tax Exemption
- Empowerment Zones (Federal)
- Historic District Rehab Credits (State)
- Historic District Rehab Credits (Federal)
- Conservation Easements
- Pollution Control Tax Exemption (Air-State)
- Pollution Control Tax Exemption (Air-Federal)
- Air & Waste Management Association Fall Joint Conference
- 2024 OFN Conference
- ACG University Fall 2024
- The Right Place Developers Day 2024
- Michigan Economic Developers Association ‘In Your Place’ Spring Conference
- MTEC SmartZone’s Inaugural AMMP Accelerator Cohort
- Automotive Roundtable Series Qtr 2: Battery Technologies and Operations Through the Legal Lens
- ICSC + Continuing Education Michigan Seminar – Space, Place, Marketplace: Where is Commercial Real Estate Going Next?
- 2024 Clearing the Air Conference
- Air & Waste Management Association – West Michigan Chapter Spring Conference
- Webinar: How Much Does Your Business Rely on Federal Policy?
- Manufacturing + Mobility in 2019 and Beyond: An Automotive, Environmental, Incentive and Political Update
- The Automotive Supplier’s Guide to 2017: Legal Trends and Insight for the New Year
- Capitalizing on Michigan’s Financial Incentives Programs – A Primer for Commercial Lenders
- Warner Partner John Byl Honored by Inclusion in Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2024 Hall of Fame
- Warner Leads Calumet Electronics to Secure Nearly $50 Million in Federal and State Incentive Packages
- Warner Attorneys Represent Bay City in Innovative Public-Private Partnership Bridge Agreement
- Nick Colvin Joins Greater Grand Rapids NAACP Board
- Nick Colvin Joins Ele’s Place West Michigan Board
- Warner Serves as Counsel for Public-Private EMU Student Housing Project
- Warner Executive Partner Troy M. Cumings Among Michigan Leaders in the Law
- Government and Economic Development Attorney Nicholas M. Colvin Joins Warner
- Michigan Manufacturers Association Appoints Kurt Brauer to Chair Environmental Policy Committee
- Kurt Brauer Elected President of Michigan Wetlands Association
- One Hundred Warner Attorneys Rated Best Lawyers in America
- Experienced Economic Development Attorneys Join Warner
- Warner and OESA Partner on 2017 Legal Trends Seminar
- Warner Names Five Attorneys as Partners
- Warner Partner Kurt Brauer Discusses Michigan’s Food Economy with Crain’s Detroit Business
- Warner Rated Tops in Two Industries in BTI Power Rankings
- Warner Named Best of the Best Top Midwest Law Firm
- Warner Names Practice and Industry Group Chairs
- Carbon Sequestration: What is it and How Will it Affect Me?
- New Brownfield Redevelopment Law Amendments in Michigan
- Rachel J. Foster and Kurt M. Brauer Write GRBJ Article on Land Banks as an Economic Development Tool
- Economic Incentives Can Fill Gaps in Project Financing
- Warner Helps You Navigate “Business As Anything But Usual”