City of Des Moines · Tax Increment Financing · 2016–2026
Every developer agreement, TIF action and public incentive the Des Moines City Council approved over a decade — harvested from council agendas, minutes and staff communications, then cross-checked against the state's actual TIF filings and the county assessor's roll.
All 202 projects with terms, projected public return, the state's actual rebate payouts and assessed values. Sortable, every row linked to its source PDF.
Open the ledger →Where the money went, on real neighborhood boundaries. Toggle layers, shade by investment or return, click any project for detail.
Open the map →Investment, cost, public return and build status for each of the 17 neighborhoods that received TIF-backed development.
Open the breakdown →Twelve metro cities on one footing, entirely from state filings: increment generated, how much went back to developers, and who has no levy headroom left. Des Moines is 9th of 12 on TIF intensity.
Compare the metro →Where the data comes from, the judgment calls behind the numbers, how they were validated against independent sources — and what this can't tell you.
Read the methodology →About the figures. TIF amounts are net-present-value — the city's committed, capped obligation, not the larger undiscounted cash-basis sum. Where a document doesn't state a figure it is left blank and flagged; nothing is estimated. Sources: councildocs.dsm.city (agendas, minutes, council communications), Iowa Department of Management urban-renewal filings, Polk County Assessor.