Making the best TIF deal

Thursday, January 16, 2003

Although I do not live in the Cape Girardeau School District, I manage several business enterprises in Cape Girardeau which pay in excess of $175,000 a year in property taxes on real estate within the district's boundaries. With this vested interest, I felt it necessary to respond to the Southeast Missourian's recent editorial regarding the tax-increment financing request of Prestwick Plantation and the school district's position.

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