Baker & Daniels and its consulting division, B&D Consulting, have decades of experience with local economic and community development at all levels. The team has advanced projects and strategies for neighborhoods, cities, towns and counties, state government and regional economic development organizations.
Few firms combine an economic development consulting capacity with federal affairs expertise. Baker & Daniels and B&D Consulting professionals work with jobs development, business attraction, neighborhood and downtown revitalization, brownfield redevelopment, technology development, incubators, public-private partnerships, international trade development, military base reuse and adjustment, and rural and agricultural development. Our counsel extends across the United States through local and state governments and their agencies, state, regional and local economic development organizations, nonprofits, universities and utilities. Our professionals also have helped cities develop sports strategies.
We act as legal counsel, including bond counsel and project counsel, to municipalities, state agencies and authorities, and redevelopment commissions and authorities. Through the years, our professionals have assisted local governments in development and implementation of creative economic development strategies and financing mechanisms. Baker & Daniels lawyers took a lead role in crafting and implementing state legislation making tax increment financing available in Indiana. As a result, counties, cities and towns have enjoyed the benefits of a superior funding source for innovative infrastructure development and job creation projects for many years.