Cincinnati Commercial Tax Abatements And Development Incentives

Daily-updated records detail commercial tax abatements, grants, loans, and property sales administered by the Cincinnati Department of Community and Economic Development. The dataset includes project costs, funding sources, and geocoded locations for development agreements aimed at job creation. It is published by the City of Cincinnati's Office of Performance and Data Analytics.

Use Cases

• Analyze the relationship between EST_PROGRAM_TOTAL_VALUE and TOTAL_PROJECT_COST_EST to evaluate public subsidy efficiency.
• Map development projects by LATITUDE and LONGITUDE to identify spatial clusters of economic incentives.
• Classify PROJECT_TYPE by PROGRAM_TYPE and NEIGHBORHOOD to model neighborhood-level development patterns.
• Predict PROJECT_CATEGORY based on TOTAL_FUNDING_ALL_SOURCES_EST and ORGANIZATION_LEGAL_NAME using classification models.
• Track agreement timelines by analyzing AGREEMENT_EXECUTED_BY_COMPANY and APPROVED_BY_CITY_COUNCIL dates for process efficiency studies.

Strengths

• Includes 17 columns of project details, costs, and geographic data.
• Data is refreshed daily, providing current status of agreements.
• Processing includes address verification and geocoding, adding LATITUDE and LONGITUDE fields.

Limitations

• Row count and total data size are unknown, limiting assessment of statistical power.
• Sample data is unavailable, preventing review of data distributions and null values.
• Temporal coverage and date range for historical records are not specified.

Provenance

Source

City of Cincinnati Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED).

Collection Method

Recorded by DCED when new agreements are signed, with processing by the Office of Performance and Data Analytics.

Freshness

Daily refresh frequency.

Geography

City of Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.