To expand on the TIF a bit more to me it is a bit redundant in how the state words it what they are saying is you can take an industrial building and lets use Packard as a reference,the state is saying in order to encourage the reuse of it is to create a TIF to raise the taxes in the surrounding area to help pay for the tax incentives.

So what you are doing is having the neighborhood pay to rebuild Packard which in turn would help improve the neighborhood and raise values.

But here is the kicker, the city then designates Packard as a stand alone enterprise zone.Why ? The theory is because if you take a building which is the center and rehabilitate it then the neighborhood kinda rebuilds it self. Which is nice if the people have the funds to do so,most cases no,and you are cutting them off of available funds to help them.

Because the feds have said hey running all of those freeways through neighborhoods kinda messed them up and the crack thing did its share,so here is what we are going to do,what you do is designate a target area and declare it a enterprise zone and we will help you to restore those neighborhoods.

Because otherwise you have a pretty nice rebuilt building in the middle of a mess,so then the feds provide the funds to help not only the single building but an entire neighborhood,so the city is shooting itself in the foot and you can see why the neighborhoods are as they are ,it does not matter if you only have 5 people in the neighborhood left it still qualifies for improvement funds.

By declaring a property as a singular enterprise zone you are creating a tax haven for a derelict property while it is empty then if the owner decides to rehabilitate it you then designate it as a TIF project and charge the residents to fix it,so you can see why they sit empty,as an enterprise property your tax bill is reduced to bare minimum or eliminated so it is costing you bare minimum to sit on it ,no incentive to rehabilitate.

TIF everywhere else is reserved for funding special projects over a period of time,usually 10 years,it is used for maximum impact with an exit plan,by design it is a rapid form of funding and yes it can be opposed but because of its somewhat targeted nature it usually is not because the target payers profit from it long term.