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Wichita economic development incentives topped $85 million since last September. Here’s how they work.

This summer, bulldozers, excavators and graders filled the sleepy residential North Riverside neighborhood.  A once-vacant field at 11th and Amidon is becoming a new development of 40 single-family homes. Developer Jerry Jones said without the $1.7 million tax incentive Wichita offered him in February, the Riverside Housing Redevelopment District wouldn’t be single-family homes. “It definitely would’ve been a […]