October 28, 2026, The Buffalo Chronicle, Opportunity Zone nominations close today, and New York hasn’t said which neighborhoods made its list
Critics of the first round, which began in 2018, argued that much of the money went to neighborhoods that were already gentrifying. Commercial Observer, citing the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, reported that about 42 percent of OZ investment went to 1 percent of zones and that 75 percent went to market-rate residential projects.
