Depressed counties try tax incentive to lure firms

Angela Mapes Turner, The Journal Gazette

aturner@jg.net

In a county with double-digit unemployment, it doesn't take much to persuade officials to do something - anything - to spur economic development.

That's the situation DeKalb County found itself in last month when it adopted a resolution declaring all unincorporated areas in the county "economic revitalization areas" - streamlining a step in the tax-break process.