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Opportunity Zones: An Expert Guide to the Changes in the One Big Beautiful Bill

The investment landscape for tax-advantaged community development is about to undergo its most significant transformation since the original opportunity zones program launched in 2017. The One Big ...
The Business Journals

Opportunity Zones 2.0: Here's how many Chicagoland tracts could be eligible

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The new Opportunity Zone program ...
The Business Journals

Opportunity Zone program gets an upgrade. Here's what's changing.

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Preview this article 1 min The original Opportunity Zone ...
Financial Planning

Opportunity zone program expands with OBBBA

South Main Street in Sheffield, Illinois. The town is part of a 136-square-mile opportunity zone. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act makes the opportunity zone program permanent and also introduces some ...
Accounting TodayOpinion

Help clients take advantage of new opportunity zone tax advantages

The updated framework under the OBBBA has created new opportunities for the sports and entertainment industries in rural ...
Governing

Can Opportunity Zones Ever Meet Their Poverty-Fighting Promise?

The site of a Chicago hospital that closed in 2008, part of an opportunity zone, is undergoing a $3.8 billion mixed-use redevelopment. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/TNS) Douglas MacArthur ...
Forbes

In The Zone: Changes To Opportunity Zones In The House Budget Bill

UNITED STATES - DECEMBER 15: HOUSE CHAMBER—The House floor from the Speaker's chair. (Photo by Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images) In this episode of Tax Notes Talk, Jessica Millett ...
The Real Deal

Bay Area could get 480 Opportunity Zones under Trump’s big, beautiful plan

The Bay Area could get nearly 500 additional Opportunity Zones as part of President Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.” The Opportunity Zone 2.0 program, first introduced with President Trump’s tax cuts in ...
The Florida Times-Union

The Permanent Return of Bonus Depreciation and the Reform of Opportunity Zones Mark a Turning Point for Tax Strategy

CHARLOTTE, NC / ACCESS Newswire / August 27, 2025 / For high-income earners and business owners, taxes are often their single greatest recurring expense. Smart planning is not just about creating ...
AOL

Opinion - Opportunity Zones have quietly become America’s most effective housing program

America is facing a major housing shortage. Experts say we’re short about 7 million homes. While many government programs try to help by offering rent subsidies or putting limits on rent increases, ...
Multi-Housing News

Opportunity Zones: New and Improved?

If you've passed on OZs before, check out the revised version courtesy of the One Big Beautiful Bill. In signing the One Big Beautiful Bill, President Trump made Opportunity Zones a permanent part of ...