Kansas City, Mo. – December 17, 2025: Brian Engel and Kim Spies, attorneys with Rouse Frets White Goss Gentile Rhodes, P.C., assisted in the termination of the Lake of the Ozarks Community Bridge Transportation Development District (TDD) in Lake Ozark, Missouri, marking a successful completion of the district as a financing tool for public transportation infrastructure.
The TDD was formed in 2010 through the efforts of firm attorneys Mike White and Dale Schulte. The TDD issued bonds in 2012 to refinance the debt on the Lake of the Ozarks Community Bridge, which first opened to traffic in 1998 and became the only toll bridge in the state of Missouri. Toll revenue paid off the bonds two years earlier than scheduled and with the wind down of the TDD, bridge travel is now free again.
About Brian Engel: Brian focuses his practice on real estate transactions and development, land use and zoning, as well as municipal law and public finance. Brian serves as counsel to the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City, Missouri, and to Transportation Development Districts and Community Improvement Districts throughout Missouri.
About Kim Spies: Kim concentrates her practice in public finance and municipal law where she has served in a full range of roles, including bond counsel, issuer’s counsel, disclosure counsel, and developer’s counsel. She has experience structuring, negotiating, and preparing bond and offering documents for traditional and innovative municipal financings for education, airports, stadiums, health care, hotels, transportation, and other public projects. She also handles real estate and economic development projects for governmental entities and developers. Her experience includes the use of special taxing districts and other public incentives such as Tax Increment Financing, Transportation Development Districts, Community Improvement Districts and Neighborhood Improvement Districts.
About the Public Law Practice Group: The firm’s Public Law Practice Group attorneys assist clients in obtaining approval of changes in zoning and development entitlements such as variances and the issuance of building permits as well as practicing before administrative bodies on matters related to regulatory compliance. They also assist clients in obtaining the approval of economic development incentives. Click to view a project map of work the firm has completed.
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