An in-depth look at the 2020 Deal of the Year winners

Published December 17, 2020 12:52 PM

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Updated December 20, 2023 4:27 PM

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The Deal of the Year awards, presented Wednesday, recognize innovation in municipal finance and this year’s nominees had to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic in addition to other challenges.

Click here for photos from the 2023 dinner, here for photos from the 2022 dinner, and here for photos from 2021.

California Health Facilities Financing Authority’s $500 million housing bond wins Deal of the Year

This was the inaugural issuance under the “No Place Like Home” program, the first large municipal bond program created to invest in homeless housing infrastructure and secured directly by taxes on high-income residents.

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New York Power's green deal creates a buzz

The state's largest authority pulled off a $1.23 billion issuance that included its inaugural green bonds, and it did so during the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Connecticut Green Bank targeting climate change

The $1,000 denomination Liberty Bond deal aimed to lure socially conscious, retail investors to broaden its investor base.

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Bon Secours deal helped not-for-profits enter COVID-battered market

The deal helped pave the way for the reopening of the capital markets for not-for-profit health systems amid the then-insurgent COVID-19 pandemic.

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Cooperative effort needed for state-of-the-art landfill

The Idawy Solid Waste District is being honored for its four-county, two-state effort to finance a state-of-the-art landfill.

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Incoming California Treasurer Fiona Ma Interview

California Treasurer-elect Fiona Ma speaks during an interview in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Dec. 18, 2018. Ma was elected California State Treasurer with more votes than any other candidate for Treasurer in the state's history and will be inaugurated on January 7, 2019. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg

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California housing bond deal finds a new way to help the homeless

California overcame a legal challenge to use bond authority to provide housing for homeless people suffering from mental illness.

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DFW's $2B deal provided safe landing plan for big airports in a pandemic

For quickly turning a financial crisis into an opportunity and mapping a course for other large airports, Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport's $2 billion refunding earns The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year for the Southwest Region.

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Ford Foundation deal puts 'S' in ESG at forefront of helping non-profits

The Bond Buyer chose the Ford Foundation’s $1 billion sale of taxable social bonds as the Deal of the Year winner in the Environmental, Social and Governance/Green financing category.

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Ohio Buckeye tobacco refunding took debt off default track

The $5.35 billion transaction being recognized by The Bond Buyer as Midwest Deal of the Year met a series of state goals.

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Arizona IDB Lincoln deal delivers key project in innovative way

The project will construct a new 11-mile east-west freeway south of Lincoln, Nebraska, and it will be financed in a way that doesn’t infringe on state borrowing limits or expose investors to undue credit risk.

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Tampa's water bond deal thrived amid coronavirus headwinds

For taking proactive measures to update city infrastructure during the height of pandemic, Tampa, Florida's $362.8 million water and wastewater systems revenue and refunding revenue bond transaction earned The Bond Buyer's Deal of the Year for the Southeast Region.

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