SERVICES & DELIVERABLES
SITE SELECTION
• Community and Site Analysis
• Labor & Workforce Analytics
• Tax Credits & Incentives Strategy and Negotiation
• Incentives Compliance and Administration
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
• Housing Needs Assessment
• Transportation Analysis
• Community Revitalization
• Urban Planning
• Community Engagement
• Strategic Planning
GRANT WRITING & FUND DEVELOPMENT
• Grant Proposal Writing
• Grant Compliance & Management
• Funder Research & Strategy
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Economic Impact Analysis
• Presentation & Pitch Deck Creation
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
• Real Estate Strategy
• Economic Impact Analysis
• Target Industry Studies
• Developer Solicitation & Selection
• Strategic Planning
• Labor & Workforce Analytics
REAL ESTATE & BUSINESS INCENTIVES
• Financial Feasibility Analysis
• Economic Impact Analysis
• Tax Credits & Incentives Strategy and Negotiation
• Incentives Compliance and Administration
• New Markets Tax Credits
• M/WBE Applications & Compliance
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PROJECT TEAMS
Credits & Incentives
Steadfast City’s Credits & Incentives team provides economic incentives and development consulting services to real estate developers and businesses. With over 40 years’ experience our team of real estate and incentives experts serve as your concierge and strategic advisors for engaging the public sector and maximizing savings and impact for your project.
New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC)
Steadfast City supports businesses and not-for-profits in analyzing potential opportunities for New Markets Tax Credits and procuring allocation from Community Development Entities. While the New Markets process can be daunting, our team of experts guides you through the entire process from inception to financial closing and compliance.
Compliance
Steadfast City’s incentives and grants compliance team works as analysts and reviewers of your project's awarded incentives or grant funds and their associated regulatory requirements. Steadfast City can help you navigate the complex and timeintensive compliance process, providing independent, 3rd-party certainty and accuracy for meeting program deadlines and regulations, and maintaining incentives while reducing risk of clawbacks, helping your team maximize the value of your incentives or grant project.
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Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners is as much a consulting firm as it is an "artists collective." It's an intellectually free space where each player brings their own instrument and voice, where nothing is quite played the same but each song's multi-layered texture and exploration works -- and in a moment's notice, it inspires additional space, time, and creativity.
Planning
With our team of planners, economic developers, local government experts, real estate experts, and outreach research specialists, Steadfast City is the perfect partner to help your community plan and prepare for future growth and development. Our versatile, multi-disciplinary team can assist with any of your planning needs, including strategic planning, real estate assessment, target industry assessment, workforce and labor analysis, community marketing strategy, community engagement and more.
Community Impact, Grant Writing, & Fund Development
Steadfast City is focused on developing better communities across the United States, and our team of grant managers and fund development experts are prepared to help your notfor-profit achieve its visionary impact. With access to local, regional, and national funders and a history of successfully procuring millions of grant dollars for our clients, Steadfast City is strategically positioned to help you complete your project and grow your organization’s community impact.
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"The best made places are the ones that trigger the senses emotionally, even wistfully, while taking advantage of the natural micro-climate and the industrial pulse of the city. The crash of the waves from the pier at night, the ambient lighthouse or neon sign through the fog, the trumpet distant off the bricks of the quarter, the smell of the chocolate or coffee or beer factory when the wind blows just right."
Doug Rasmussen, CEO and Founder
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1. TANNER JONES PROJECT MANAGER, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT | 2022 TANNER@STEADFASTCITY.COM (trombone)
Part of our journey toward a more holistic model of economic and community development and nonprofit consulting is defined by art and music, especially avant-garde jazz, which transcends defined boundaries. Like art and music, vibrant cities and effective economic development cannot grow stagnant. Because we intentionally try new strategies, we naturally avoid getting stuck in a formula of what once worked. Instead, we orchestrate a metaphorical new sound by layering sectors like government, business, real estate, social, community, philanthropy and non-profit.
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Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Steadfast City has steadily grown to include employees across the
2. JESSICA WALKER PROJECT CONSULTANT | 2023 JESSICA@STEADFASTCITY.COM (percussion)
Midwest (St. Louis), Great Lakes (Northeast Ohio), Northeast (Rochester and New York City) and Southeast (Mobile). Not only is Mobile a strategic extension of Steadfast City’s mission, its players contribute a new sound and added depth to our diverse band.
TANNER Tanner is a skilled professional with eight years experience in local economic development in the Southeast, where he managed community-based projects, marketing and communications, research and data analytics, and incentive compliance initiatives.
As a project manager of economic development, Tanner identifies opportunities for communities and businesses to partner on sustainable, steadfast investments
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that will grow businesses and local economies. Tanner manages credits and incentives projects, develops economic development strategic plans for communities, and conducts research, financial analysis and economic impact analysis for various projects.
JESSICA
Jessica is a project consultant at Steadfast City. Her experience in community development, grants, government and public relations allows her a unique perspective with which to strengthen the team’s efforts for all clients. From project management to communicating successes and goals to the public, Jessica is skilled in connecting big ideas to the broader goal of promoting better communities.
STEADFAST NYC steadfast city | new york city’s economic & community partners FEATURING 1. BENNY HOULIE SENIOR CONSULTANT | 2022 BENNY@STEADFASTCITY.COM (trumpet) At Steadfast City, we are deepening our impact and “changing the sound” of economic development. We solve problems for people, businesses, real estate developers, governments, non-profits and communities through a multidisciplinary lens of consultants from tax, social work, economic development, commercial real estate, marketing, operations, logistics and fund development. As economic and community developers, we are unafraid to abandon convention for innovation, continually composing a new sound with new instruments, new voices and new ways of doing things. NEW YORK CITY America’s greatest cities meet local with social fabrics; blend music and burning neon lights and city sound; mingles sense of place with sense of time; boasts being there first and being the best; connects the now to the better future just around the corner. This is New York City. And this is where Steadfast City will keep “changing the sound” of economic development. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Steadfast City has steadily grown to include employees in New York, Alabama and Ohio. BENNY As a Senior Consultant, Benny provides compliance analysis and the application of Chapter 100 Tax Abatements, CDBG/HUD Section 3, M/WBE contracting and other governmentprograms.Heleverages his regulatory background in private equity structures to provide credits, incentives and compliance management for clients. As a board director across multiple fund structures, Benny gained experience identifying, assessing, managing and monitoring all forms of risk for clients in industries such as mining, energy, software and automotive. HIGH FIDELITY ALBUM #04 WWW.STEADFASTCITY.COM STEADFAST
LOUIS steadfast city | st. louis’ economic & community partners FEATURING 4. EVAN GLANTZ PROJECT MANAGER 2021 EVAN@STEADFASTCITY.COM (INSTRUMENT) 1. DOUG RASMUSSEN PRESIDENT | 2019 DOUG@STEADFASTCITY.COM (instrument) Steadfast City is completely turning upside down the silos and divisions within economic and community development. Our unique approach is “changing the sound” within our industry and setting us apart not only as the best at what we do, but the only ones who do what we do. By helping our clients think about what is next and how to get there first, we are creating something new, something that works. Meet the ensemble of virtuosos making noise and making a difference. DOUG Entrepreneur, thought leader and economic development professional, Doug Rasmussen launched Steadfast City in 2019. The company is built on his desire to bring about positive economic and social change and a recognition for the need to develop better through sector collision SARAH As project manager, Sarah focuses on stakeholder research, analysis and engagement. Her passion for building healthy organizations and expanding community capacity is rooted in collaboration with and empowerment of people. JUDY Judy’s many years in site selection and economic development gives her a strong foundation for managing Steadfast City’s breadth of administrative support functions. EVAN Utilizing a background in marketing, communications and data analysis across public, private and nonprofit sectors, Evan’s command of numbers and narratives enhance efficiencies for our clients. ALLISON Allison is an executive-level analyst, researcher, problem solver and creator who draws upon her multidisciplined expertise to assist clients with economic incentives, site selection and development strategy. JOEL As an urban planning, community development and public policy specialist, Joel facilitates growth for private, not-for-profit, and (quasi) governmental organizations. He is AICP certified through the American Planning Association. BRIANNA Brianna assists non-profits as they apply for grants, launch missionaligned initiatives and seek funding. She also works with for-profits to analyze potential community impact. HIGH FIDELITY ALBUM #01 WWW.STEADFASTCITY.COM 5. ALLISON GRAY-GUNSTEN VP & CENTRAL REGION LEADER | 2020 ALLISON@STEADFASTCITY.COM (INSTRUMENT)
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3. AMELIA MORTON PLANNING COORDINATOR 2022 AMELIA@STEADFASTCITY.COM (instrument)
The metaphorical jazz band that is economic and community development has long sounded the same with little to no change over the course of 5 or even 50 years. Steadfast City breaks this stodgy mold as it continues to compose a new sound by melding together sector layers like government, business, real estate, social, community, philanthropy and nonprofit. Together, the chorus of new instruments, new voices and new ways of
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1. CECILIA A. DVORAK VICE PRESIDENT OF PLANNING 2023 CECILIA@STEADFASTCITY.COM (french horn)
Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners is composed of the most adventurous and innovative people in the economic and community development industry, offering a unique ensemble of business and real estate development incentives, planning, new markets tax credits, grant writing, non-profit fund development and consulting. Our band of bad ass players (employees) challenge the traditional sound and arrangements of the field with arrangements that blend finance, planning, real estate, government, social work, marketing, operations, philanthropy and entrepreneurism. The group adds creativity and an outlet for a new sound in economic and community development, urban
planning, and non-profit consulting. We merge government, business, real estate, for-profit, and nonprofit into a newer, better sound, one that elevates neighborhoods, organizations, businesses and communities.
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Steadfast City rehearses from its artist’s loft in St. Louis, Missouri as wellasitscreativeofficeindowntown Rochester, New York. The band has steadily grown to include employees across the Midwest (St. Louis), Great Lakes (Northeast Ohio), Northeast (Rochester and New York City) and South (Alabama, Texas). CECILIA Cecilia Dvorak is Steadfast City’s Vice President of Planning. Based
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in Houston, she cut her teeth on policy development and honed her skills in public speaking, community engagement and neighborhood planning in the hometown of our headquarters, St. Louis. She is an executive planning professional with experience in long-range comprehensive planning, real estate development and local government planning and policy. She is a thoughtful planner with a passion for cultivating strong relationships and partnerships across sectors. By first asking, “who is this for and who will it impact?” she is able to intentionally and impactfully involve those people in the planning and development to ensure that the social and physical aspects of all projects are equitable, sustainable and people-oriented.
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has landed in The Heart of it All KATIE Katie joins the Steadfast City team as an Ohio-based project manager with an expertise in federal grant administration and urban revitalization. She works with the team to maximize funding opportunities and develop projects that incorporate the community, the local economy and the built environment. Katie brings an equally detailed and multi-faceted approach to her work, amplifying the economic and community development team’s capacity to facilitate growth for its clients. She draws from a background in community development, zoning and project management, and from a
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passion for connecting people, places and processes. As a result, Katie’s work delivers purpose-built spaces that serve communities socially, architecturally and economically.
AMBER
As the Compliance Manager at Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners, Amber provides assessments of compliance, including: economic incentives, CDBG/HUD Section 3, M/WBE contracting and other government programs. She is a seasoned compliance specialist with a unique background in mortgage and state/federal examinations. Her experience in the industry includes monitoring program performance and documenting processes while troubleshooting collaboratively with government agencies.
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doing things results in a concert of leading-edge strategies, services and outcomes. ROCHESTER Rochester is a steadfast city that is entrepreneurial and ever-evolving. As Steadfast City’s second physical office, the Rochester office anchors the company’s presence in the northeast while adding a personal and local connection to the Rochester community and western New York. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Steadfast City has steadily grown to include employees in New York, Alabama and Ohio. MARGARET As an economic development professional, incentives expert and compliance guru, Margaret’s diverse portfolio includes organic egg farms, airlines, insurance, hospitals, finance, pharmaceuticals and utilities. She brings a big picture and detailed perspective to her work within the ever-changing landscape of economic incentives. DOMINIQUE Dominique’s skillset joins together ananalyticalexpertisewithapassion for community development. Prior roles in accounting give her experience with endowments, budgeting, financial statements and investments. AMELIA Amelia is a planning coordinator and research analyst with a passion for building communities. She uses her background in urban planning and process analysis to establish a project environment that is efficient and effective. SHAYLA Shayla provides coordination, analysis and facilitation to Steadfast City’s projects. As a critical thinker, she approaches research, compliance, financial modeling and data analysis with the ability to contextualize and communicate. HIGH FIDELITY ALBUM #02 WWW.STEADFASTCITY.COM 2. DOMINIQUE MCKINNON VP OF BUSINESS OPERATIONS | 2021 DOMINIQUE@STEADFASTCITY.COM (instrument) 4. SHAYLA MEEHAN REAL ESTATE PROJECT MANAGER | 2021 SHAYLA@STEADFASTCITY.COM (instrument) steadfastcity.com Like a great Blue Note Jazz record, the Steadfast City Economic & Community Partners' lineup is comprised of bad asses with unique voices and talents, unafraid of expanding the "sound" of traditional economic and community development. Read more about our team at: steadfastcity.com/thought-leadership steadfast city | ohio’s economic & community partners FEATURING AMBER BRUNO KATIE WARD STEADFAST OHIO steadfast city | ohio’s economic & community partners FEATURING 1. AMBER BRUNO COMPLIANCE MANAGER 2022 AMBER@STEADFASTCITY.COM (vibes & marimba) 2. KATIE WARD PROJECT MANAGER | 2021 KATIE@STEADFASTCITY.COM (vocals & piano) Like an innovative rock or jazz band, Steadfast City aspires to continuously create a new sound. That’s why our driving philosophy is to develop better. It means weaving together government, business, economic development, real estate, social and philanthropic sectors in a more aligned and impactful way. Our purpose is rooted in elevating businesses that create jobs, real estate developers who rebuild neighborhoods, cities that need revitalization, organizations that effectuate positive change, and people who benefit from all of these working together. OHIO Drawn to the Ohio Valley’s history and the region’s tenacious identity, Steadfast City began to strategically expand into Ohio and across the Appalachian region in the early 2020s. Headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, Steadfast City has steadily grown to include employees in New York, Alabama and Ohio. While some may say that Ohio is a “fly-over” state, Steadfast City
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