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Follow on Google News | This Earth Day, Several Public Housing Authorities Celebrate with Greener Energy and FacilitiesCrews & Associates, Inc. is leading the way in financing Public Housing Authority energy performance contracts across the U.S.
Crews & Associates, Inc., an investment banking firm headquartered in Little Rock, Arkansas with national operations, has participated in the financing of Public Housing Authority energy efficiency projects totaling over $200 million. The firm’s work in this area includes the largest Public Housing Authority energy performance contract in the U.S. to date, a $59 million project for the Boston Housing Authority. Crews’ Crews & Associates has structured 20+ year transactions for housing authorities utilizing lease purchase financing. In many transactions that were funded in 2010, a portion of the financings qualified for the Build America Bond Subsidy (BABs) which expired at the end of 2010. The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act provided for BABs as an alternative to tax-exempt financing. The interest rate for BABs is taxable to investors and generally higher; however, the federal government reimburses 35% of the interest cost to the borrower on each payment date, typically resulting in a lower net interest rate than the traditional tax-exempt approach. While the BABs program has expired, Hurst anticipates that there will still be a considerable amount of energy conservation projects funded in 2011 with traditional tax-financing. “Even though we have lost that program and rates have risen somewhat, we still have historically low, attractive interest rates,” said Edmond Hurst, Director of Crews & Associates’ Capital Markets Group. “Crews is actively seeking to fund more energy conservation projects nationally together with its traditional municipal finance business,” said Hurst. For more information on the financing of these projects, contact Edmond Hurst at (501) 978-7941 or ehurst@crewsfs.com or Mark Brown at (501) 978-6306, or mbrown@crewsfs.com. About Crews & Associates, Inc. Little Rock-based Crews & Associates, Inc. is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to the structuring, financing and distribution of fixed-income products nationally. Crews, founded in 1979, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Security Bancorp and has served as a managing underwriter for more than $33 billion in financings in 48 states across the country. www.crewfs.com # # # Crews & Associates, Inc. is a full-service investment banking firm dedicated to the structuring, financing, and distribution of fixed-income products nationally. Founded in 1979, the firm is a wholly-owned subsidiary of First Security Bancorp. End
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