New Markets Tax Credit Coalition

Choctaw Community Facilities

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians used the NMTC to support its new early childhood education centers and an elementary school expansion.

Investment

  • NMTC Amount: $15,000,000
  • Total Project Cost: $15,000,000

IMPACT

  • 42 FTE jobs
  • 73 construction jobs

Investor

Project Description

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians recently closed a New Markets Tax Credit transaction related to its two new early childhood education centers and an elementary school expansion — resulting in a $2.3 million benefit to the Tribe.

MAP

Address: 416 Arrowhead Road, Walnut Grove, MS 39189

Census Tract: 28079040402

Other Mississippi Projects

A new hotel was financed on Choctaw lands to create jobs and economic development after the devastation of Katrina.

The acquisition and construction of a mixed-use facility directly across the street from a newly-built Jackson State University Student Union.
NMTCs financed the expansion of a soybean processing facility, which includes additional equipment purchases and operating cash to support grain procurement.

PB Community Impact Fund and BXS Community Fund provided federal New Market Tax Credit allocation and to Lackey Memorial Hospital to finance the construction of a new Medical Arts Complex