Related Community Development Group (“Related”) will make loans and investments to commercial real estate projects to finance land development and vertical development of retail and office projects. Related will offer new products, including equity investments and deeply subordinated debt products with interest rates that are at least 33% below conventional market interest rates. Related will utilize its NMTC allocation to specifically target areas located in census tracts with high poverty or unemployment rates, in an effort to promote the creation and retention of new jobs for low-income persons as well to provide valuable goods and services for residents of low-income communities.