Brown Business Development and Investment Group
BBDIG helps cities attract investment and businesses, and helps companies find the sites and funding to grow—turning economic opportunities into measurable results.
BBDIG pairs AI research tools with hands-on project management to help cities attract and keep businesses, and to help companies find the right sites, incentives, and grant funding to open or expand.
Choose your city and your priorities. Our AI drafts a first-look brief on the businesses, grants, and incentives that could help your city grow. Then request a verified review from our team.
Your brief will appear here. It covers:
This is a first draft written by AI from general knowledge. It does not show your city's current TIF status. BBDIG verifies every detail.
Request TIF status for this cityEconomic development runs on documents: parcel records, grant notices, assessment rolls, and annual reports. Our AI tools read and organize that material much faster than staff can by hand.
How we use AI: AI handles the research and the first drafts. A BBDIG specialist reviews every result before it reaches you, and nothing is filed without your approval.
Scans federal, state, and foundation grant programs and matches them to your projects, eligibility rules, and deadlines.
You get: a ranked shortlist of grants worth applying for.
Powered by BGrants.com, with state-of-the-art AI-driven grant solutions.
Studies local spending, vacant storefronts, and nearby competition to identify the retailers, restaurants, and employers a district can support.
You get: a target list of business types to recruit, with the reasoning behind each.
Pairs businesses looking to open or expand with towns that have the right sites, workforce and incentives, and shows both sides the TIF, grant and tax relief available.
You get: towns get a ranked list of business prospects; businesses get a shortlist of sites with incentives attached.
Turns project data into first-draft narratives, budgets, and support letters that match each funder's format and scoring criteria.
You get: complete drafts for our grant writers to refine and your staff to approve.
Tax Increment Financing lets a city reinvest the new property tax growth in a district back into that district, for roads, utilities, site work and redevelopment. It is authorized by the , and a district can last up to 23 years.
You get: funding for local projects without a new tax.
Reviews parcel, vacancy, and building-age data to flag areas likely to qualify as a blighted, conservation, or industrial park conservation area under the Illinois TIF Act.
You get: a map of candidate boundaries before you commission a full eligibility study.
Models how equalized assessed value (EAV) could grow above the district's frozen base over its 23-year life, under several development scenarios.
You get: clear projections council members can compare side by side.
Compiles revenues, expenditures, and project activity into the annual TIF report each municipality files with the Illinois Comptroller.
You get: reports ready for review, with every figure traced to its source.
Grants, tax relief, and local incentives can cover land, site work, infrastructure, and building costs for projects that bring jobs and investment. We find what your project qualifies for, help you choose the right site, and win the agreements and grants that make it pencil.
We check which incentives your site and project qualify for, from grants and county tax relief to enterprise zones and TIF districts, and whether applying makes sense.
You get: a free 30-minute review and a straight answer.
We show the city why the project needs help, prepare the request, and negotiate the terms, including TIF redevelopment agreements, through board approval.
You get: a signed agreement that covers eligible costs.
We prepare Class 6b, 7, and 8 applications, including the city resolution each one requires.
You get: property taxes cut by up to half for 12 years, where the project qualifies.
We layer state and local programs together, such as EDGE, REV Illinois, EV charging, storefront grants, and TIF.
You get: applications written by BGrants.com.
We match retailers, restaurants, franchises, and employers with available sites in south suburban communities, near I-57 and Metra.
You get: sites where the city already wants your use.
We file the yearly job and investment reports and the payment requests your agreement requires.
You get: incentive payments that arrive on schedule.
Fees are set in writing before work begins. Where a TIF agreement allows, our fees can count as reimbursable project costs.
Strong districts bring people out to shop, eat, and spend time together. That everyday activity is what turns new development into lasting value for a city.
Most projects are funded by more than one source. We find the paths your project qualifies for and stack them so the deal works for the city and the company.
How we work: assess the opportunity → match businesses, sites & incentives → fund with grants → track and report results.
Reinvests a district's new property tax growth into roads, utilities, site work and redevelopment, through an agreement with the city.
You get: eligible project costs covered without a new tax.
Federal, state, local and foundation grants for buildings, equipment, infrastructure, workforce and EV charging.
You get: a matched shortlist and applications written for you.
Cook County Class 6b, 7 and 8 incentives lower the property-tax assessment for qualifying industrial and commercial projects.
You get: lower property taxes for up to 12 years, where the project qualifies.
State-designated zones, such as the Will-Cook Enterprise Zone, offering sales-tax exemptions on building materials and other credits for job-creating projects.
You get: lower construction and operating costs.
The city and the company share a project's cost and risk: land contributions, public infrastructure, and development agreements tied to jobs and investment.
You get: a project that works for both the budget and the community.
Need grant writing? See BGrants.com
Growth only pays off when the right businesses land in the right places, with the right funding behind them.
We match each project with the grants, tax relief, and local incentives it qualifies for, so cities and companies get the strongest package.
AI research tools shorten the time from first conversation to a funded plan, without adding work for city or company staff.
Incentive applications, eligibility studies, and annual reports are prepared and filed for you.
One BBDIG team reviews every AI output and manages attraction, grants, incentives, and reporting, so you have one point of contact.
BBDIG, the Brown Business Development & Investment Group, was founded on a simple belief: growth a community creates should be reinvested in that community.
That means bringing the right businesses to the right places, helping companies find the sites and funding to grow, and making sure every incentive, from grants to TIF districts, is well structured and tracked year over year.
We use AI to do that work faster and more thoroughly, and we keep people responsible for every decision. Our work stays local and specific: the companies, projects, and municipal partners that make up a community's economy.
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