GREAT FALLS DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY

The organization is a certified community development financial institution that provides gap and bridge financing to entrepreneurs, businesses, developers and non-profits who cannot secure all the financing they need from conventional sources. The organization has seven revolving loan funds capitalized from a variety of public and private sources. To date, the organization has made 190 loans totaling $65,797,674 that have made possible total investment of over $350,000,000, creating thousands of jobs, a number of new businesses and renovated properties, and hundreds of new apartments. The organization manages a separate non-profit, high plains financial, that is a sba-certified community development corporation providing sba 504 loans statewide across montana.