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The Ohio Department of Development awarded the Major League Soccer team $26 million in tax credits from the agency's Transformational Mixed-Use Development Program, a pool of credits given to large-scale projects that could be considered catalytic for development in the communities around them.
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Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 4 July 2025
Funding comes from the local businesses, a bank loan and the county’s catalytic loan, the Herald previously reported.
—Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2025
In a world of dashboards and disruption, perhaps the most catalytic metric in business isn’t external at all.
—Carrie Anne Yu, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
The catalytic impact of this plant alone has produced more than $7 billion in follow-on manufacturing assets and thousands of high-paying jobs in this historically distressed region — again, at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer.
—Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
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Sydney Franklin, The Enquirer, 4 July 2025
Funding comes from the local businesses, a bank loan and the county’s catalytic loan, the Herald previously reported.
—Jason Dill, Miami Herald, 23 Apr. 2025
In a world of dashboards and disruption, perhaps the most catalytic metric in business isn’t external at all.
—Carrie Anne Yu, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
The catalytic impact of this plant alone has produced more than $7 billion in follow-on manufacturing assets and thousands of high-paying jobs in this historically distressed region — again, at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer.
—Stephen Moore, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
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“Catalytic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/catalytic. Accessed 9 Jul. 2025.
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catalytic
adjective
cat·a·lyt·ic
ˌkat-ᵊl-ˈit-ik 
: causing, involving, or relating to catalysis
the catalytic action of an enzyme
Medical Definition
catalytic
adjective
cat·a·lyt·ic
ˌkat-ᵊl-ˈit-ik
: causing, involving, or relating to catalysis
a catalytic reaction
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