In Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
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$25,315,000*
ARLINGTON HIGHER EDUCATION FINANCE CORPORATION
Education Revenue Bonds
TGP Public Schools d/b/a The Gathering Place
Series 2022
Series 2022A Education Revenue Bonds $25,135,000*
Series 2022B Taxable Education Revenue Bonds $180,000*
HJ Sims is pleased to serve as sole underwriter for The Gathering Place, a single-site charter school in its second year of operations in San Antonio, Texas.
The Gathering Place is one of the only public schools offering project-based learning (“PBL”) in San Antonio and the surrounding market. The school currently serves K-3 students, and will grow organically by one grade level per year to reach K-8. The Gathering Place is already educating over 500 students in year two of operation for grades K-3 due to the high-demand PBL model. At full enrollment, the school will serve more than 1,400 students each year. The school received 461 applications for an estimated 175 new seats available for the 2022-23 school year, leaving 286 students on the waitlist.
About the Bonds
Use of Bond Proceeds
Security
Key Financial Covenants
We are currently accepting indications of interest for these tax-exempt bonds with an expected pricing the week of April 25, 2022, and anticipated settlement during the week of May 9, 2022. For more information including risks, please read the Preliminary Official Statement in its entirety. If you have interest in purchasing these bonds, please contact your HJ Sims financial professional as soon as possible.
*Subject to change
No dealer, broker, salesperson, or other person has been authorized to give any information or to make any representation other than those contained in the Preliminary Official Statement and, if given or made, such other information or representation should not be relied upon as having been authorized by the Issuer, the Borrower, or the Underwriters. The information set forth herein has been obtained from the Issuer, Borrower, and other sources that are believed to be reliable, but is not guaranteed as to accuracy or completeness by, and is not construed as a representation of, the Underwriters. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice. Under no circumstances shall this constitute an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such jurisdiction. Any offering or solicitation will be made only to investors pursuant to the Preliminary Official Statement, which should be read in its entirety. Investments involve risk including the possible loss of principal. HJ Sims is a member of FINRA and SIPC, and is not affiliated with TGP Public Schools d/b/a The Gathering Place.
HJ Sims is pleased to announce the successful closing of a November 2021, $398.1 million tax-exempt and taxable bond issue for Purchase Senior Learning Community, Inc., formed to develop a new university-based retirement community, Broadview at Purchase College, being constructed on the State University of New York Purchase College campus in Purchase, NY.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingIn Department of Defense terminology, CONOPS stands for a concept of operations, a statement that concisely expresses what a commander intends to accomplish and how it will be done using available resources. As the first quarter of 2022 draws to an end, individual investors may see the need to create or revise their own individual investment CONOPS after some in-depth communications with our trusted financial planners, counsel, tax advisers and investment professionals.
Continue readingPaul Wittgenstein was one of eight children born into a wealthy Vienna family in 1887. His parents frequently welcomed into their warm parlor some of the world’s most prominent composers: Johannes Brahms, Gustav Mahler, Richard Strauss. Living through, and serving in World War I, Paul’s story, like many others — then and now — is one of survival and determination.
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HJ Sims is pleased to announce the addition of two senior bankers, Richard Harmon and Robert Nickell, expanding the firm’s public finance education practice. The HJ Sims public finance team provides comprehensive capital planning, structure and execution for charter schools, public and private education systems and institutions.
Continue readingBy the time he turned five, Harvey “Little Man” Sutton of Lynchburg, Virginia, had spent a remarkable 11% of his life on the Appalachian Trail, hiking more than 2,190 miles through 14 states in 209 days, starting with his first steps up on Georgia’s Springer Mountain in January of 2021, and ending with the final celebratory steps in August atop Mount Katahdin. To maintain or hike is just one of the many questions also facing the Federal Open Market Committee, a very special subgroup of U.S. central bank whose statements and actions drive the global markets.
Continue readingThere is a drumbeat emanating from family kitchens and elementary school classrooms, corner restaurants and city stadiums, office buildings and grocery stores, suburban gyms and resort hotels, and it is growing louder. And, those drumbeats have reached the financial markets. Starting two years ago, the financial markets have been percussed, but have since been cymbals of the central banks and the incongruous but profitable risk-on behavior they have fostered.
Continue readingIn an all too familiar scenario for writers, one persistent author suffered through 30 rejection slips before his book was finally accepted for publication. Canadian sociologist Laurence Peter had asked aloud: “Why do things always go wrong?”
Continue readingThe clock was built in 1947 by distinguished American engineers and scientists and it has been ticking away for 75 years now. For the past two years it has been stuck at 100 seconds, an urgent wake-up call meant to tell us how close we may be to destroying our own world.
Continue readingWith seven percent annualized inflation and supply chain woes carrying over from 2021, with our central bank clearly telegraphing the reversal of its decade-long loss insulation efforts, with uncertainty over the next path of a pandemic amongst other woes, it is no wonder that most financial markets are upside down this month.
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