Downtown Development Authority
Lowell Downtown Development Authority
The Lowell Downtown Development Authority is a downtown development authority of City of Lowell in Kent County, Michigan.
Transparency checks
What this body files with the State and posts online, checked against the law and good practice.
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6 found · 3 not found
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Not found: TIF package: board meeting minutes
The meeting table lists a DDA meeting on November 10, 2025 (a notice for a visit to the Allegan riverwalk) with a packet and no minutes. Every other DDA meeting in the past 12 months has minutes.
MCL 125.4910(1)(a) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: board meeting minutes
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Not found: TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
No DDA budget is posted; the page's budget link is the site menu's link to the city budget (rubric decision 10c).
MCL 125.4910(1)(b) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual budget, with fund balances
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Found: TIF package: annual audits
Treasury shows no audit of the DDA's own, so the city's counts (rubric decision 10c); Budgets and City Finances posts the city's audits through 2024-2025.
MCL 125.4910(1)(c) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual audits
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Found: TIF package: development plan
The page links "DDA Tax Increment Financing Plan" (opened), the 1993 "Development and Tax Increment Financing Plans for Downtown Improvements".
MCL 125.4910(1)(d) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: development plan
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Found: TIF package: tax increment financing plan
The page links "DDA Tax Increment Financing Plan" (opened), the 1993 "Development and Tax Increment Financing Plans for Downtown Improvements".
MCL 125.4910(1)(e) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: tax increment financing plan
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Found: TIF package: staff contact information
"Michael Burns/Executive Director"; Lowell City Hall, 301 East Main Street, 616-897-8457.
MCL 125.4910(1)(f) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: staff contact information
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Not found: TIF package: list of current contracts
No list of current contracts; a sweep of the site's pages and a web search of the site found none.
MCL 125.4910(1)(g) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: list of current contracts
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Found: TIF package: annual synopsis of activities
"Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report" (opened) is the DDA's own PA 57 report, listing the projects completed in fiscal 2024-2025 with their costs.
MCL 125.4910(1)(h) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: annual synopsis of activities
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Found: TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings
The meeting table lists an "Informational Downtown Development Authority Meeting" on April 16, 2026, with its agenda.
MCL 125.4910(4) · Read October 3, 2026 on its website · Evidence for TIF package: notices of the two yearly informational meetings
About
- Type
- Downtown Development Authority
- Part of
- City of Lowell
- County
- Kent County
- Website
- — none found
- Notes
- Listed in Treasury Document Search with no filings. Confirmed on its government's website (https://www.lowellmi.gov/government/appointed_boards_and_commissions/downtown_development_authority.php), 2026-09-25.
Sources
Where this page's facts come from.
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Kent County public bodies: research notes
Open Government Project · 2026-09-24
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TIF authority package (W5a-W5i), Kent County
Open Government Project · read 2026-10-03