Remove Bears, suburban school districts $100M apart in valuations of Arlington Heights site
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Tax incentive programs underfund schools

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

Governments impute a likely increase in property value and tax revenue from a new development, but direct that increase to the developer as a source of finance, inducement, etc. But that is all the taxes--city, county, schools, special districts, etc. The program is supposed to bring new jobs but instead has starved schools.