Derby drops incentives for meeting space developers

The city of Derby is ending a program that offered tax incentives to businesses that wanted to develop new meeting spaces.

The Derby Informer reports the program started in 2011, when city leaders believed the community needed more meeting spaces. No businesses took advantage of the incentives, so the city decided to include meeting spaces in parks it was developing with revenue from a sales tax approved in 2013.

Now that the city has created its own meeting spaces, it wants to take the incentive…