Maybe Master Card would be willing to pay for exposure on Crystal Lake's Tax Increment Finance District stone monuments.
What a perfect ad to place on Crystal Lake’s $16,000 credit-financed TIF monuments: one for MasterCard.
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Coca-Cola has deep pockets.
Coke has a big advertising budget. Prices have been going up. Maybe there is enough left over to advertise next to Route 14.
Maybe the company would help pay the $16,000 that the TIF District monuments each cost on Crystal Lake’s Virginia Street.
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On election days, a sign like this could be posted on Crystal Lake's four $16,000 TIF monuments
And, it could help pay for the four $16,000 stone pillars.
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If Crystal Lake ever can't find an advertiser, it could post a public service announcement like this "No Smoking" sign.
Public service announcements don’t bring in any revenue to help pay for the four $16,000 monuments, but they would establish that ads could be purchased.
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The "Will you marry me?" question could be shared with thousands of motorists on Crystal Lake's Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District monument.
If men arrange to ask their fiancés to marry them on billboards and electronic signs in baseball parks, why not with an ad on Route 14′s TIF District monuments?
And, it could help pay for the four $16,000 stone pillars.
There’s a lot of profit in gambling, so maybe the Illinois Lottery might be interested in advertising on one of the four Crystal Lake Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District monuments.
Who knows?
The Lottery might rent all eight sides.
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Crystal Lake used to get a lot of money from sales taxes?
"35 Days Till Christmas" could read the advertising sign next year.
To keep the dollars flowing, the Crystal Lake City Council voted to hike the city’s rate by 75%.
Advertising shopping opportunities in the city might help repay the $16,000 apiece that the city paid to erect four monuments marking the eastern and western edges of the Virginia Street Corridor Tax Increment Financing District.
What do you think?
Is it worth a try?
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Ford has no Route 14 presence in Crystal Lake anymore. Maybe a TIF monument ad would help sales elsewhere.
If the Crystal Lake wants to pay off the $64,000 that the four Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District stone pillars cost, maybe car manufacturers would be a place to try to sell ads.
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"YOUR AD HERE" is how the Chicago Sun-Times caught reader's attention for this Bank of America ad on the Wabash Avenue Bridge monument.
Yesterday, I suggested that maybe the Crystal Lake City Council could recoup some of the $64,000 it spent of our money on four stone monuments telling people they were on Virginia Street.
I say “our” money because the $16,000 apiece pillars were financed with Tax Increment Financing District bonds.
These are bonds to be paid back by taxing any increase in the assessed valuation in the TIF District.
Those dollars that are lost by overlapping tax districts are then extracted from the pockets of other property taxpayers when their tax districts raise their tax rates.
Quite convoluted, I’ll admit.
It’s so hard to understand that Mayor Aaron Shepley contended that no one’s taxes would go up when the Council was considering the Vulcan Lakes-Route 14 TIF.
How no taxes would go up when an over $20,000 million project was going to be borrowed and paid back over 23 years was beyond this economics’ major’s imagination.
But, you can understand that city council members, aldermen and village trustees consider this “free money”–tax money to ve extracted for which they cannot be help responsible…because the process of picking people’s pockets is so indirect.
In any event, Chicago has decided to sell advertising on its bridge monuments.
After advancing the possibility on its front page last week, the Chicago Tribune printed a photo of the Bank of America ad on the Chicago River's Wabash Avenue Bridge monument on its front page Tuesday. "Desperate times?" asks the photo caption.
On Tuesday both the Chicago Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune published photos of an ad bought by the Bank of America on the Chicago River Bridge monument.
If Chicago can do it, why can’t Crystal Lake?
Besides increasing parking fees and fining people $100 for speeding past a camera, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emmanuel has come up with an idea that might work in Crystal Lake.
He suggests selling space on public places, such as bridge monuments.
Here's what an advertisement might look llike on one of the monuments on the Michigan Avenue Bridge in Chicago.
If there, why not on the Virginia Street Tax Increment Financing District Corridor?
Crystal Lake might be able to pay for the $64,000 worth of pillars through advertising.
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