After examining property taxes for Target, Family Dollar, and Liberty Bank in Chicago, Steven Vance found that nearby dense development paid more per square foot than the big box developments.
Steven Vance looked at a couple of different developments to see if dense developments did indeed generate more property taxes than big box stores. He looked at the Logan Theater and its neighboring stores and compared them to the same neighborhood's Target store and parking lot in Chicago's Logan Square Neighborhood. Vance found while the Target store paid $1.88 per square foot, the theater development paid $3.01.
"The denser buildings in this analysis generate significantly more taxes for the county, city, parks, schools, and other services than the 'sprawly' buildings," Vance writes in Chicago Cityscape.
FULL STORY: Which generates more property taxes: A big box store or a dense building?
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