Heather Ennis
President & CEO
Karen M Lauerman
President & CEO
Rick Calinski
Director, Public Affairs
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Karen M Lauerman
Rick Calinski
Services
The Forum is one regional resource for brokers, developers, site selectors and individual companies offering site searches/selection services, incentive/tax information, demographic/wage/economic data with customized data analysis, and key contacts on local/state level.
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The NWI Forum is Northwest Indiana's regional economic development organization and the voice of business leadership. We represent the 7 northern counties: Lake, Porter, LaPorte, Newton, Starke, Jasper & Pulaski. The Forum's charge is to create/retain quality jobs and capital investment fostered by a friendly business climate, all in harmony with the environment.
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Finance
Employee Retention Credit: The impact of Notice 2021-20 on 2020 941s and income tax return filings
What do changes to the Employee Retention Credit mean to you and your business?
Finance
Opportunity Zone tax questions? IRS releases extended guidance on qualified opportunity fund relief
In Notice 2021-10, the IRS released extended guidance and relief for various opportunity zone requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Office
Taking the pulse of Chicago’s downtown office sector
Chicago’s Loop has ceded much of its monopoly on office space to the West Loop and Fulton Market. But combined, these submarkets remain the nexus…
CRE
Women getting it done in commercial real estate
Is real estate still a man’s world? From architecture to brokerage to property management and everything in between, women continue to make strides in CRE,…