{"id":9422,"date":"2012-06-12T16:35:40","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:35:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/?p=9422"},"modified":"2012-06-12T16:36:11","modified_gmt":"2012-06-12T20:36:11","slug":"state-incentive-gives-struggling-businesses-and-towns-a-leg-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/2012\/06\/12\/state-incentive-gives-struggling-businesses-and-towns-a-leg-up\/","title":{"rendered":"State Incentive Gives Struggling Businesses And Towns A Leg Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9426\"  class=\"wp-caption module image left\" style=\"max-width: 194px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/06\/kara-oeler.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-9426\" title=\"kara oehler\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/06\/kara-oeler-e1339533146949-300x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/06\/kara-oeler-e1339533146949-300x241.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/files\/2012\/06\/kara-oeler-e1339533146949.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Kara Oehler \/ Mapping Main Street<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"> <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Carolyn Dube of the <a href=\"http:\/\/merrimack.patch.com\/articles\/shaw-s-zyla-s-at-center-of-revitalization-plan\" target=\"_blank\">Merrimack Patch<\/a> has a story today about two vacant properties in Merrimack that have been designated by the state as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nheconomy.com\/expand-to-nh\/incentives.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Economic\u00a0Revitalization\u00a0Zones<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is one of few financial incentives we&#8217;re allowed to give in New Hampshire,&#8221; Community Development Director Tim Thompson told Dube.<\/p>\n<p>It works like this. \u00a0First, a town applies for Economic Revitalization Zone designation from the state. \u00a0Once the zone is designated as such, businesses who qualify can apply for the tax credit. According to Merrimack Patch&#8217;s Carolyn Dube, a qualifying business must &#8220;create new jobs in the community and, either make significant repairs or alterations to the property, or to the equipment on the property.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/merrimack.patch.com\/articles\/shaw-s-zyla-s-at-center-of-revitalization-plan\" target=\"_blank\">Merrimack Patch<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carolyn Dube of the Merrimack Patch has a story today about two vacant properties in Merrimack that have been designated by the state as Economic\u00a0Revitalization\u00a0Zones. &#8220;This is one of few financial incentives we&#8217;re allowed to give in New Hampshire,&#8221; Community Development Director Tim Thompson told Dube. It works like this. \u00a0First, a town applies for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[474,53],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/new-hampshire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}