Sep 22 2013

South Bend Tribune - Reviving a Studebaker Building

Nearly 50 years have passed since Studebaker shut down in South Bend, but the automaker's name still looms large here. It has been vacant for the past eight years, but the building's owner is optimistic about finding a new purpose for it.

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Jun 10 2013

A Community Impact Film: New Orleans Military and Maritime Academy (NOMMA)

SECDE Ventures, LLC is proud to make available a short film in relation to the 2012 New Markets Tax Credits transaction, NOMMA. SECDE is a co-allocatee with DV Community Investments, LLC (Dudley Ventures, LLC) for the NOMMA project.

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Apr 24 2013

Tenth Round of New Markets Tax Credit Awards Announced

$3.5 Billion in New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Program Awards were announced by the Treasury's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund. 85 community development entities will receive New Markets Tax Credit allocations after being chosen from a total of 282 applicants.

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Mar 29 2013

Phoenix Business Journal - Preservation is Essential to Maintaining Cultural Identity

Arizona is widely considered rather amateurish when it comes to historic preservation. As a comparatively young state, Arizona's collection of historically significant buildings is modest, which is why demolition of several notable buildings during the past decade has ignited controversies and subsequently raised awareness of historic preservation.

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Feb 12 2013

State Credits Help Resuscitate Rural Hospital

Methods of delivering health care services have changed dramatically since the 1960s, but many rural hospitals built during that era struggle to offer the latest treatments from dated facilities. At Neshoba County General Hospital in Philadelphia, Miss., an overcrowded emergency room and limited outpatient capacity forced approximately 70 percent of the county’s residents to travel outside Neshoba County for their health care needs. This spring, a new hospital building – one of the first to be financed by Mississippi new markets tax credits (NMTCs) – will alleviate the problem by expanding access to state- of-the-art health care for the low-income rural community.

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Jan 3 2013

CDFI Fund: New Markets Tax Credit Program Update

The American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 included an extension of the New Markets Tax Credit Program for 2012 and 2013, allocating $3.5 billion for each year.

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Dec 3 2012

NMTC Coalition 2012 Report - At Work in Communities Across America

Dudley Ventures is proud to have the following projects included in this comprehensive report prepared by Rapoza Associates for the NMTC Coalition: Maniilaq Elder Care Facility - Alaska, OASIS Orthopedic Hospital - Arizona, Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company - California, St. Bernard Parish Hospital - Louisiana, Resinall Corp - Mississippi, and Waters Place - Virginia. The New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) Coalition is a national membership organization that advocates on behalf of the NMTC program. The Coalition is managed by Rapoza Associates, a public interest lobbying and government relations firm located in Washington, D.C. that specializes in providing comprehensive legislative and support services to community development organizations, associations and public agencies.

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Nov 5 2012

Renewable Energy Flourishes Despite End of Grant

As it begins to feel the effects of the Section 1603 program's expiration, the renewable energy tax equity market is at a critical juncture. Although the grant program expired last December, most developers lined up Section 1603 deals to see them through the better part of this year and delayed the return to traditional tax credits.

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Jul 17 2012

Mt. Poso Green Energy Power Plant Conversion

In a dusty valley roughly 20 miles outside Bakersfield, Calif., stands a power plant that Kern County’s economy has relied on for more than 20 years. The Mt. Poso Cogeneration Company (MPCC) has been one of the highest-paying industrial employers in the area since it began firing coal in 1989. But the subsequent two decades brought national security concerns over fossil fuel dependence, technological advancements in renewable energy and a growing sense of environmental responsibility. After California began requiring its electric utility companies to derive an increasing percentage of their retail sales from renewable energy sources, a renewal of the original 20-year power purchase agreement (PPA) on which the plant’s existence hinged seemed less and less likely.

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