TNInvestco finalists to be announced

By Kleinheider Posted on November 4, 2009 at 1:56 pm

From the State of Tennessee:

Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber and Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr have scheduled Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. Central time to announce the six venture capital fund finalists and two alternates for the TNInvestco program. The TNInvestco program was created by the Tennessee General Assembly in 2009 and the commissioners of ECD and Revenue were charged with allocating $120 million dollars in gross premiums tax credits to the successful applicants in order to leverage private investment in early stage and mid stage capital investment programs. The aim of the program is to attract capital to Tennessee companies and create jobs in the process.

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ECD pub honors locals

By Geert De Lombaerde Posted on July 22, 2009 at 1:58 pm

Southern Business & Development Magazine has named Chattanooga’s snagging of Volkswagen its 2008 economic development deal of the year, Tennessee the co-state of the year and has nice things to say about the Governor and two of his lieutenants.

Separately, the magazine’s readers have voted Arant Boult Cummings one of the region’s top ECD law firms. Nashville-based Tom Trent leads the firm’s ECD practice group.

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Tags: awards, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP, Chattanooga, economic development, industrial real estate, Matt Kisber, Philip Norman 'Phil' Bredesen, Reagan Farr, Southern Business & Development Magazine, Volkswagen AG