Community Assistance Team CATeam Programs

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Community Assistance Team (CATeam)Programs
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Programs

• Michigan Main Street
• Blueprints For Michigans Downtowns
• Blueprints For Michigans Neighborhoods
• Downtown Infrastructure
• Special Downtown Projects (Discretionary)
• Downtown Market Studies
• Downtown Signature Building Acquisition
• Downtown Building Façade
• Brownfield Redevelopment

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Who is the CATeam?

• Created in 2001
• Provides Technical Assistance to Downtowns and
  Communities.
• Works with Communities and Developers to Package
  State Incentives for Downtown Projects

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How It Works

• Partnerships
• MSHDAs Office of Community Development Low
  Income Housing Tax Credit Program
• Michigan Economic Development Corp.
• (MEDC) Brownfield
• State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO)
• Historic Tax Credits Design Services
• Department of Environmental Quality
• (MDEQ) - Brownfield
• Department of Transportation (MDOT)
  Transportation Grants

• Downtowns
• Communities

MSHDAs Community Assistance Team (CATeam)
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Michigan Main Street

• Main Street offers intensive, year-round training
  in capacity building strategies designed to
  create more jobs, housing, and investment in
  Michigan's downtown communities.
• Four-Point Approach Organization, Promotion,
  Design and Economic Revitalization

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Michigan Main Street

• Communities
• Boyne City, Calumet, Marshall, Portland, Clare,
  Muskegon, Niles, Grand Haven, Howell, Ishpeming,
  Midland, Iron Mountain and Lansings Old Town

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Blueprints for Michigans Downtowns

• A comprehensive, market-driven approach toward
  developing an action-oriented, five-year downtown
  economic enhancement strategy.
• HyettPalma-Consultant
• Partnership with the Michigan Municipal League
  (MML)
• 34 Blueprint Downtowns

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Blueprints for Michigans Neighborhoods

• Designed to develop a model approach for
  communities, to help them plan for and implement
  the revitalization of neighborhoods adjacent to
  their downtowns.
• Increase the use of neighborhood revitalization
  tools such as the Neighborhood Enterprise Zone
  (NEZ) program, and historic tax credits for
  buildings and single family homes

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Planning Market Studies for Downtowns

• 50/50 matching grants for communities to hire a
  private consultant of their choice to conduct
  Planning and Market Studies.
• Funded Studies typically are
• Downtown Market Study
• Planning/Building re-use

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Technical Assistance

• The CATeam works with communities assists them
  with information concerning programs such as
• Downtown Development Authorities (DDAs) PA 197
  of 1975
• Brownfield Redevelopment Authorities (BRAs) PA
  381 of 1996
• Principal Shopping Districts (PSDs) PA 120 of
  1961
• Corridor Improvement Authorities (CIAs) PA 280
  of 2005
• Core Community Tools
• Obsolete Property Rehabilitation Act (OPRA)
• Neighborhood Enterprise Zones (NEZ)

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Downtown Infrastructure

• Public Infrastructure Projects
• Examples
• Sidewalks, Curbs, Gutters, Parking Lots, Sewer,
  Water, Streetscapes, etc.
• Up to 20,000 in CDBG for every new job created
• All projects must create private jobs and private
  investment (2 to 1 ratio)
• 51 of the total jobs created must be for Low to
  Moderate Income persons.

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Downtown Infrastructure

• 2006
• 8 Projects
• 1,314,737 in CDBG grants
• 80 Jobs
• 8,269,902 Local/Private Investment

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Special Downtown Projects (Discretionary)

• Special and/or unique needs or situations
  requiring innovative program approaches
• Designed as a set aside funding source for
  projects that could be statewide and/or national
  models for downtown revitalization efforts.
• Projects selected on a case-by-case basis

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Downtown Signature Building Acquisition

• Available for acquisition of vacant or
  underutilized buildings located in traditional
  downtowns
• Projects qualify through job creation
• Local match of 25 is required
• 5 year prorated resale provision
• Competitive Selection Rounds

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Downtown Signature Building Acquisition

• 2006
• 6 Projects
• 1,203,875 in CDBG grants
• 54.5 Jobs
• 7 Rehabbed Buildings
• 2,750,250 Local/Private Investment

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Downtown Building Façade

• Grants for communities seeking to target areas of
  traditional downtowns for façade improvements
• Projects include a number of façade improvements
  for a substantial impact to the aesthetic appeal
  of a downtown area

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Downtown Building Façade

• 2006
• 18 Projects
• 1,794,392 in CDBG grants
• 30.5 Jobs
• 153 Buildings Rehabbed
• 2,110,349 Local/Private Investment

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Brownfield Program Project Management

• The CATeam works directly with Communities,
  Developers and Consultants (in conjunction with
  MEDC) to lead Incentive Packaging regarding a
  project with an end use that is non-industrial.
  
• Use of State TIF (MEGA)
• Use of Local TIF
• SBT Credits

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Brownfield Program Project Management

• 2006 CATeam Brownfield Statistics
• 80 projects
• 5,856 new jobs
• 1.885 Billion in new private investment

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What Our Customers Say

• Had it not been for the CATeam, the improvements
  we have seen in Portland would not have been
  possible.
• Portland Mayor
• Jim Barnes

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What Our Customers Say

• The investments and technical assistance
  provided by the CATeam and MSHDAs Office of
  Community Development helped leverage a
  significant amount of private dollars and jobs
  that brought businesses and people back to
  downtown Newaygo. Their involvement was the
  turning point for our city.
• Rich Blachford
• Newaygo City Manager

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What Our Customers Say

• The CATeam and the Michigan Main Street program
  have helped Boyne City focus our vision to become
  a greater, stronger community and has given us
  the tools to implement that vision.
• Scott MacKenzie
• Executive Director
• Boyne City Chamber of Commerce

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What Our Customers Say

• MSHDA's Community Assistance Team has proven to
  be Calumet's indispensable partner on our
  downtown's quest to self sustainability. The
  CATeam has become familiar with our challenges
  and opportunities which has allowed Calumet to
  gain confidence in its abilities to team with
  state agencies and with the Michigan Main Street
  program.
• Tom Tikkanen
• Executive Director
• Main Street Calumet

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Staff Assignments
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