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Empowerment zone. Within United States federal legislation, an empowerment zone is an economically distressed community eligible to receive tax incentives and grants from the United States federal government under the Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities Act of 1993. [1]
Gary Urban Enterprise Zone: Beginnings. For Gary, the State established the Gary Enterprise Zone in 1985. Gary “met the threshold criteria” as laid out by the Enterprise Zone Program. Shortly after being established, he Gary Enterprise Zone was transformed into the Gary Urban Enterprise Association, Inc. (GUEA), an Indiana 501(c)(3) agency ...
Richard G. Hatcher. Richard Gordon Hatcher (July 10, 1933 – December 13, 2019) was an American attorney and politician who served as the first African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, for 20 years, from 1968 to 1988. At the time of his first election on November 7, 1967, he and Carl Stokes were the first African Americans to be elected mayors ...
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Added to NRHP. May 17, 1984. West Fifth Avenue Apartments Historic District is a national historic district located at Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses 30 contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were built between 1922 and 1928, and consist of a dense group of brick apartment blocks mostly four stories tall.
What demographics make up Gary, Indiana? The racial demographic of the city following the 2010 census was 84.8% African American, 10.7% White, 0.3% Native American, 0.2% Asian, 1.8% other races ...
Renewal community. Renewal Communities (RCs) and Empowerment Zones (EZs) are distressed urban and rural communities in the United States where qualifying businesses are eligible for billions of dollars in tax incentives. They were created in the Community Renewal Tax Relief Act of 2000, which was eventually passed as part of the Consolidated ...
Crystal. Residence. Gary, Indiana. Alma mater. Calumet College of St. Joseph ( BS) Eddie Melton (born 1981) [1] is an American politician from the state of Indiana, who was born in the city of Gary and is serving as the 22nd mayor of Gary, Indiana. A member of the Democratic Party, Melton served in the Indiana Senate as the Senator for Indiana ...