Neighborhood Lending Partners' News

NLP's 2023 Annual Membership Meeting

NLP's 2023 Annual Membership meeting was a great chance for everyone to get together and celebrate 30 years of affordable housing and community development. Thank YOU for your continued support!

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Hawthorne Park Grand Opening in Orlando, Florida

Hawthorne Park is a 120-unit Senior Apartment Complex. NLP provided a $4,000,000 Construction Participation Loan with Wells Fargo and a $4,000,000 Permanent Loan. This property is in Orlando, Orange County, Florida.

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Auburn Village Provides Permanency to Residents in Auburndale, Florida

NLP provided a $2,600,000.00 permanent loan and a $354,000 Second Mortgage to build a 102-unit affordable housing seniors development. Auburn Village is in the city of Auburndale, in Polk County.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners Awarded 7 Million for Affordable Housing

NLP has been awarded a $7,000,000.00 Capital Magnet Fund Grant!!!!!! This grant is not only considerably large in volume, it’s massive in the amount of impact that we can make not only in our local community but in Georgia communities as well.

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More Permanent Supportive Housing for Homeless People Is on Its Way to Central Florida!

Construction is expected to start soon on a 102-unit affordable housing development in Edgewood, designed specifically to support formerly homeless people and people with special needs.

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NLP NLPF Annual Membership Meeting

NLP held its Annual Membership Meeting and Meeting of the Board of Directors via the ZOOM platform on May 20, 2021. It was a pleasure to reconnect with our fellow bankers and community supporters as well as elect the upcoming boards and committees.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners Had a Successful Year

In spite of COVID-19, NLP has had a very successful year. We have been very fortunate managing through the COVID-19 pandemic with minimal disruption in our operations.

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We Are Proud to Participate on Mayor Castor's Affordable Housing Advisory Team

The Affordable Housing Advisory Team is one of four teams compiled to help Mayor Castor shape her vision for Tampa's future in key areas that also include workforce housing, transportation and development services.

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Cameron Preserve Provides Permanency to Residents in Kissimmee

NLP provided a $2,000,000 construction loan and a $1,040,000 permanent loan to finance a much-needed affordable housing development in Kissimmee, Florida called Cameron Preserve Apartments.

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NLP Meets With FDIC Chairwoman Jelena McWilliams

The Chairwoman's visit was used to hear directly from organizations about how we can all work together to improve the quality of life in our neighborhoods.

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2018 NLP 25 Year Anniversary and Annual Membership Meeting

We would like to thank everyone for their continued support as we continue our efforts to revitalize underserved communities.

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2017 Annual Membership Meeting and Strategic Planning Session

We would like to thank everyone who participated in our 2017 Neighborhood Lending Partners, Inc. and Neighborhood Lending Partners of Florida, Inc. Annual Membership Meeting and Strategic Planning session.

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Grand Opening of Brandon Palm Apartments

Brandon Palms just celebrated their grand opening on June 8, 2017. Located in Brandon, Florida, Brandon Palms is a 120 unit complex catering to families earning between 40 to 60% of AMI (area median income).

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NLP at OFN Advocacy Day 2017

Mary Fellows and Debra Reyes attended OFN's Advocacy Day 2017.

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NLP Receives AHP Award from Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

The Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta has awarded $415,458 to Neighborhood Lending Partners of Florida and its development partner to assist in the funding of Grove Pointe as part of the 2017 Affordable Housing Program.

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NLP at the 2017 People & Places Conference

Mary Fellows, our friends at FLACDC and some of the Florida delegation attending the 2017 People & Places Conference in Washington, DC.

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Grand Opening of Goldenrod Pointe Apartments

NLP underwrote and closed a $2,000,000 loan on behalf of Orange County for Goldenrod Pointe Apartments, a 70 unit affordable apartment complex in Winter Park, Florida of which 20 percent of units are set aside for homeless individual and families to help them successfully transition to permanent housing.

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NLP's Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) Pool

Loans for multi-family rental properties utilizing LIHTC's have been a core product for NLP from its inception. These loans are crucial to NLP continuing to fulfill its mission and provide high quality housing to Florida's under-served residents and loan opportunities to our Member Banks.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners, Inc. is proud to work with Housing Trust Group

NLP is proud to work with Housing Trust Group on a second project. Arbor View will create 100 units of much needed affordable housing for seniors in Broward County.

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NLP joins Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta

Neighborhood Lending Partners of Florida, Inc. is proud to announce its membership with the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta.

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From NLP we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year.

From NLP we wish you a wonderful holiday season and a prosperous New Year. We appreciate your support and commitment to NLP and look forward to a very productive and successful 2017.

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EM & G Firestopping

Neighborhood Lending Partners provided EM & G Firestopping $50,000 for working capital to support it's growth and expansion of it's contracts.

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Come visit NLP and learn about the GMBOF at the upcoming Entrepreneur Summit 2016!

Get Informed. Get Connected. Get Inspired.

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Loan Pool for Low-Income House Tax Credit Loans (LIHTC)

NLP closed a $16.5 million LIHTC loan pool in December 2015 which, is already a tremendous success. The pool is almost fully subscribed, with a loan that will fully utilize the remainder of the pool currently under consideration.

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NLP Finances Affordable Housing Development in Brandon

Tampa-based developer Blue Sky Communities is in the process of building a 120-unit affordable apartment complex to be known as Blue Sky Brandon in the Brandon area of unincorporated Hillsborough County, Florida.

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Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay closed on a $400k line of credit

On July 18th Rebuilding Together Tampa Bay closed on a $400k line of credit with Neighborhood Lending Partners, Inc.(NLP) to start construction on four new single-family homes.

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Success Story: S&S

The Soares family moved to Miami from Brazil nearly 18 years ago and have come a long way to become experts in bringing the perfect pastry shop to South Florida.

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Business Success Story: Ridertack, Inc.

Before we met Neighborhood Lending Partners, Inc., our business had lost all hope right in the middle of opening our new storefront. We were having a lot of financial problems and our cash flow was really rough. Other financial loan companies provided us with small businesses loans which included daily discount payments from our checking account.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners Announcement

Neighborhood Lending Partners of West Florida Neighborhood Lending Partners of North Florida and Neighborhood Lending Partners of South Florida have now become Neighborhood Lending Partners of Florida!

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Thank You to BankUnited!

Neighborhood Lending Partners is sending huge thanks to BankUnited for their support of our economic development and small business lending programs!

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Revitalizing the Community Reinvestment Act

Neighborhood Lending Partners was pleased to participate in the Miami meeting with the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Florida Minority Community Reinvestment Coalition.

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Thank you!

Thank you to all who came out to celebrate the Launch of the Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund and groundbreaking ceremony of Beacon Homes!

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We have moved!

Stop by and say "Hello" to Debra Salas at our new location with great parking and easy access!

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Low Income Housing Tax Credit

NLP recently closed a Low Income Housing Tax Credit pool with its member banks. The pool is primarily being used to provide favorable construction to permanent loans for multi-family projects.

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Come check out our workshop and visit us at Booth 315!

Do you need money to start or grow your business in 2016 and can't qualify for a conventional small business bank loan?

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Thank you to TD Charitable Foundation!

A big thank you to TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® for supporting the Neighborhood Lending Partners Small Business Lending Initiative and the Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund.

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SAVE THE DATE!

We cordially invite you to join us as we celebrate the launch of the Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund.

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It is official!

We have closed on our credit facility with Bank of America and Wells Fargo for funding the Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund!

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Happy Holidays

To provide the staff of NLP time to share the holidays with their families and to re-charge their batteries, NLP is closing its offices the week between Christmas and New Years Day.

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The Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund

Join us as we celebrate the announcement of the Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund.

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We would like to welcome Joe Goldstein to the NLP team!

Joe Goldstein is the newly appointed Senior Vice President/Chief Credit Officer at NLP. He is responsible for development and maintenance of all credit and lending policies and procedures and reviews all new loan requests, loan modifications and/or extensions of existing loans to evaluate feasibility and adequacy of the proposed loan structure.

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NLP thanks Comerica Bank

NLP wants to thank our newest Member, Comerica Bank for providing a line of credit for Small Business Lending in Florida!

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Neighborhood Lending Partners thanks BB&T

Neighborhood Lending Partners wants to thank BB&T for its grant support for the new Florida Minority Impact Housing Fund.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners announces partnership with Lake Worth CRA

NLP is excited to announce its partnership with the Lake Worth CRA in its mission to invest in the community to revitalize and rebuild neighborhoods and commercial corridors.

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Neighborhood Lending Partners announces partnership with Paragon

Neighborhood Lending Partners is pleased to announce our partnership with Paragon, also a CDFI in Florida. We have signed a contract with Paragon to provide technical assistance to borrowers applying for The Riviera Beach CRA Small Business Opportunity Fund. We are excited to kick off this loan fund and look forward to a great relationship with our new partner.

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