ABOUT US

Calderon Economic Development Strategies, LLC (CEDS) is a company with more than 34 years of professional economic development experience. The company was formed by Bill Calderón in June of 2017 to provide economic development consulting services and advice on creation, use and management of a myriad of economic development tools to assist with development challenges offering creative solutions to financing public and private components of residential, commercial, mixed use, and industrial projects.

CEDS also provides consulting services to both local governments and private development concerns on economic development strategies, including negotiating and crafting of development reimbursement agreements, economic impact analysis of specific incentive tools, GIS (graphic information system) cartography and GIS-based data analysis, creation and use of local government corporations (LGCs) for project development and management, insulation against liability concerns, and financing through the use of and structuring of tax exempt and taxable bond financing to finance development.

CEDS also drafts legislative solutions to create legislative authority to address any programmatic or development needs for which legal authority is lacking. CEDS provides creative solutions and fresh ideas to challenging development projects to bring them to fruition.

Our Experience: Thirty four years in the economic and community development field, with dozens of special purpose districts created. Collectively, these have resulted in expansion of community tax bases exceeding $5.5 billion, with over $900 million in tax exempt bonds and private financings.

Our Strategy: Bringing experience, inspiration and originality to create innovative, successful developments and redevelopment projects through well-conceived financing plan strategies to guarantee success. We successfully utilize Public-Private Partnerships to finance challenging development projects.