| Description | |||
| Abstract: Represents Enterprise Zones. | |||
| Purpose: Enterprise Zones were created in 1982 by the Virgina General Assembly for the purpose of assisting business development and expansion in specially targeted, economically depressed area. Enterprise Zones are used to define/describe the extent and boundaries of these zones for use in GIS. This GIS layer is used to relate properties (hence addresses) to the correlating Enterprise Zone for use in the City's data warehousing and central address systems. | |||
| Supplemental Information: The Virginia and City of Richmond Enterprise Zones were created in 1982 by the Virgina General Assembly for the purpose of assisting business development and expansion in specially targeted, economically depressed area. Businesses within these areas, called Enterprise Zones, are offered a package of local and state benefits in order to stimulate private investment and create jobs. Local incentives include a real estate abatement, loans toward machinery, equipment or structural improvements, facade improvement funding, and job grants. State incentives include a tax income credit, real estate improvement tax credit, and job grants. Enterprise Zones in the City are designated by City Council through a resolution. City of Richmond, Department of Economic and Community Development: http://www.richmondgov.com/EconomicCommunityDevelopment/index.aspx | |||
| Contact | |||
| Custodian: | Lisbeth.Coker | ||
| Department: | Economic and Community Development | ||
| Position: | Commercial Development Coordinator | ||
| Address: | MainStreet Station 1500 E. Main St., Suite 400 | ||
| City: | Richmond | ||
| State: | Virginia | ||
| Zip Code: | 23219 | ||
| Email: | Lisbeth.Coker@richmondgov.com | ||
| Time Period of Content | |||
| Date: | 2009 | ||
| Status | |||
| Progress: | Complete | ||
| Update Frequency: | Irregular | ||
| Spatial Domain | |||
| West Coordinate: | -77.577316 | ||
| East Coordinate: | -77.384922 | ||
| North Coordinate: | 37.603696 | ||
| South Coordinate: | 37.446259 | ||
| Spatial Data Information | |||
| Data Type: | vector digital data | ||
| Data Format: | SDE Feature Class | ||
| Data Projection: | Lambert Conformal Conic | ||
| Access and Usage Information | |||
| Access Constraints: | none | ||
| Use Constraints: | All GIS layers and datasets are owned by the City of Richmond and can not be modified, re-distributed, and/or re-sold without a sub-licensing agreement. All guarantees of validity expire once a dataset leaves the City of Richmond firewall or physical premises. Acknowledgement of the City of Richmond GIS would be appreciated in products derived from these data. | ||
| Entity and Attribute Information | |||
| Entity Name: | vector.ric.area_EnterpriseZone | ||
| Entity Type: | Feature Class | ||
| Entity Count: | 12 | ||