CNI serves neighborhoods on Chicago’s South Side. We have leveraged over $350 million in new industrial, retail, and recreational development in a single census tract in Pullman through the New Markets Tax Credits program. Since the first NMTC investment in 2013, violent crime in the neighborhood has dropped 52% and jobs in the community have increased by 43%.
-Jennifer Bransfield, COO and General Counsel, Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives
In November 2023, CDF provided $4.5 million in NMTC (NMTC) allocation to Lawndale Christian Legal Center (LCLC) to fund the rehabilitation of a 24,600-sq. ft. existing facility and the construction
PBT Acquisition, LLC (“PBT”) is a joint venture between Kataman Metals and Environmental Operations, Inc., created for the acquisition and remediation of approximately 271 acres of land in St. Clair
LEH, founded in 1965, manufactures fluid conveyance systems for use in equipment and heavy machinery in the agricultural, construction, material handling, mining, forestry, groundskeeping, transportation, and alternative energy industries. LEH
Located in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago, the Aspire Center for Workforce Innovation will become a coordinated one-stop business and career development center, comprised of workforce training, career development and
Lyon manufacturers steel lockers, shelving, and cabinets, which it sells primarily to distributors and general contractors. Our financing supported equipment purchases, mainly related to the addition of two automated production
SMS is a non-ferrous scrap metal processing facility that processes approximately 1900 tons of scrap metal per year. This project provided the funds needed for SMS to purchase a LINDER
Urban Market Excahnge is a start-up business. They will offer consulting and legal services, co-working spaces for artists, specaility and venue spaces for training, residential apartments, retail shops and office
The construction of the city’s first Black female-owned grocery store will address the neighborhood’s food disparities.
The Chicago Jesuit Academy was founded in 2005 to support students from historically disinvested communities and is located on Chicago’s West Austin Neighborhood. The CJA currently provides a high-quality education
Finances the construction of a 49,000 sq. ft. zinc processing facility in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood to replace a 32,000 sq. ft. building that burned down last year.
