- Responsible and Irresponsible Bond Financing for Public Works Eliot Singer 01/18/18 new
- City Still Shirking Responsibility for Financial Woes Eliot Singer 01/09/18 new
- Technical Analysis of Non-Recourse Tax-Increment Bonds in Reference to Lot 1 Bond Eliot Singer 01/07/18 new
- Center City District Addendum Questions Alice Dreger 12/02/17 new
- When Will They Ever Learn, When Will They Ever Learn? Eliot Singer 12/02/17 new
- History of Changed Plans in East Lansing Tax-incentivized Development Projects Eliot Singer 11/27/17 new
- One Picture is Worth 1000 Words: Lotto 1 Seniors Eliot Singer 11/20/17 new
- Context is Credibility Gap Eliot Singer 06/28/17 new
- City of SNAFUS (ad nauseam) Eliot Singer 06/25/17 new
- For Publication: Response to Ms. McElmurry on What to Do Eliot Singer 05/06/17 new
- Approve Loot 1, Kiss Tax Increases Goodbye Eliot Singer 05/06/17 new
- Lotto 1 Development: Anything to Avoid a Public Vote Eliot Singer 05/04/17 new
- Project Formerly Known As: Snake Oil Finance Again Eliot Singer 04/27/17 new
- Lot 1 Target PR Stunt: Credibility Sinks Even Lower Eliot Singer 04/13/17 new
- Correct, Meadows used $700 figure not $800 Eliot Singer 04/01/17 new
- Lot 1 Credibility Gap 2.0: Revenue Accounting 101 Eliot Singer 04/01/17 new
- Re: Reply to Eliot Singer Amy Maldonado 03/27/17 new
- Can someone answer these questions for me: Susan Masten 03/26/17 new
- Response to Susan Masten Elliot Singer 03/26/17 new
- Reply to Eliot Singer Roberta M. McElmurry 03/26/17 new
- Rough Pro Forma for Lot 1 (because someone has to do it, urgently) Elliot Singer 03/26/17 new
- EDR, Core Campus, Harbor Bay All In Bed Together Elliot Singer 03/24/17 new
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- Re: Lot 1 Redevelopment (again) Don Bosman 03/23/17 new
- Not with a Bang but a Whimper Eliot Singer 12/14/16 new
- Message to MEDC and State Legislators Concerning Abuses of Brownfield Redevelopment Eliot Singer 09/10/15 new
- Legacy Costs, Attempt to Quantify (Important: Please Try to Understand My Best Effort to Make Clear) Eliot Singer 09/03/15 new
- Counting Legacy MBT Credits and Brownfield Tax Diversion Before They Are Hatched Eliot Singer 07/25/15 new
- Update on Project Formerly Known as City Center Two Eliot Singer 07/23/15 new
- Response to Don Bosman on Eminent Domain for CC II Properties Eliot Singer 07/09/15 new
- For Publication: Project Formerly Known as City Center II, a.k.a., Park District, Mortgage History Eliot Singer 07/02/15 new
- The NDC Report on PDIG Eliot Singer 06/30/15 new
- Message Sent to East Lansing DDA/BRA with Regards to NDC Financial Report on Park District Investment Group Eliot Singer 06/29/15 new
- Project Formerly Known As City Center II: Morning After Regrets Eliot Singer 01/29/15 new
- A couple of financial tidbits courtesy LSJ Eliot Singer 04/13/14 new
- Parking and other Budget Miscellany Eliot Singer 04/11/14 new
- Michigan Association of Counties Presentation on Tax Capture to House Tax Policy Committee 2-6-14 Eliot Singer 03/18/14 new
- Why the DDA and BRA Have To Go Eliot Singer 10/29/13 new
- DTN, PLEASE TAKE NOTE: Phil Bellfy 07/28/13 new
- "Sale of Property For Completion of Park District Development" Thomas M. Yeadon (submitted By Jim Cuddeback) 07/24/13 new
- RISKING ADDITIONAL SANCTIONS – A RESPONSE TO TOM YEADON Phil Bellfy 07/24/13 new
- I Am Not Amused about No End to Development Fascism Eliot Singer 07/24/13 new
- Broke DDA to Spend Money on Another Discretionary Public Works Eliot Singer 06/23/13 new
- Option to Purchase Agreements for Private CC II Properties Eliot Singer 06/15/13 new
- Park District: Facts of Life Eliot Singer 06/04/13 new
- Dangerous Sidewalks Repair Budget Eliot Singer 05/20/13 new
- Ordinance 1287 & 1289: My Recommendations Eliot Singer 05/03/13 new
- Rents on The Residences Eliot Singer 05/02/13 new
- Parking Debt, FY 2014 Style Eliot Singer 04/26/13 new
- Make the DDA Pay Its Fair Share for Public Safety! Eliot Singer 04/23/13 new
- Message to the Park District Review Committee Eliot Singer 04/16/13 new
- "providing services to its constituents"? Phil Bellfy 03/30/13 new
- Responses to Park District Proposal Supplementary Questions Eliot Singer 03/23/13 new
- "You'd be dissenting from the urban planning doctrines" Bill Weckesser 03/21/13 new
- Park District Review Update Eliot Singer 03/17/13 new
- AN UNANSWERED QUESTION Jeffery Hank 03/15/13 new
- The DTN Biggby's/West Village Development Eliot Singer 03/13/13 new
- "What a wasted opportunity" Bert Seyfarth 03/11/13 new
- DTN, and City Hall, Must Play by the Rules Eliot Singer 03/09/13 new
- Correction on Pubic Response Post on DTN Eliot Singer 03/09/13 new
- "The key to a vibrant East Lansing isn’t the downtown." Bill Weckesser 03/08/13 new
- "No Taxpayer Dollars" Development (Not!) Eliot Singer 03/05/13 new
- The Usual Suspects (Park District Review Committee) Eliot Singer 03/01/13 new
- DDA Meeting and Secrecy Eliot Singer 02/27/13 new
- STRATHMORE IN DEFAULT ON "LITTLE BANK BUILDING" DEMOLITION Phil Bellfy 10/30/12 new
- Millage, Further Thoughts Eliot Singer 08/21/12 new
- "... land sales be put on November's ballot..." Phil Bellfy 07/31/12 new
- East Lansing Bonds and Brownfield/Tax Increment Financing Projects Part 2: Concepts Eliot Singer 01/07/12 new
- City Center II: A Distressed Mortgage Does Not Simply Vanish Eliot Singer 10/27/11 new
- City Center II: The Facts about the BANs and the DDA’s Evergreen and 303 Abbot Properties Eliot Singer 10/18/11 new
- "...cuts to public services to pay for a failed real estate speculation,..." Eliot Singer 10/15/11 new
- More City Center II Secrecy Phil Bellfy 10/13/11 new
- Taxpayers ON The Hook? Staton Walks Away! Audio by Scott Boehme interviewing Phil Bellfy 07/14/11 new
- Another Cover-up: Plan for Refinancing the City Center II Bond Anticipation Notes Eliot Singer 05/15/11 new
- Request for Public Review of East Lansing DDA Budget Eliot Singer 05/04/11 new
- For The Public Record Phil Bellfy 06/25/12
- Morally, and Perhaps Soon to Be Financially, Bankrupt Eliot Singer 04/13/12
- Governed By Fairy Tales Phil Bellfy 04/12/12
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