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For Immediate Release: November 30, 2007
The Bond
Buyer Announces 2007 “Deal of the Year” –Grambling State
University will be among Finalists
To Compete for National Honors at Black-Tie Gala on Dec. 11th
The Bond Buyer’s editors this week announced the finalists for its sixth annual Deal of the Year Awards, recognizing 10 of the nation’s most innovative municipal-bond issuers for transactions that financed major public infrastructure projects, including bridges, hospitals, schools, water, an airport, and housing for students, members of the military, and the poor. All ten finalists are in the running for the overall Deal of the Year award, which will be announced Dec. 11th at a black-tie dinner in New York City. The Bond Buyer is SourceMedia’s daily newspaper covering the $2.3 trillion municipal-finance industry.
Among the finalists is Southeast Small Issuer: The Louisiana Public Facilities Authority for its $59.3 million sale of tax-exempt and taxable bonds for the Black & Gold Facilities project for student housing known as Tiger Village on the campus of Grambling State University. The bond funded Phase 1of this ultra-modern student housing complex with 1,200 beds of an overall redevelopment of the campus of Grambling State University that previously had never issued debt. Phase 2 of the housing concept will get underway in early December and provide 800 beds.
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