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INFRASTRUCTURE

INCENTIVES

An October 2020 report by the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics found that the percentage of U.S. residents who are in prison has dropped 17% since 2009. 

Since 2011, at least 22 states have closed or announced closures for 94 state prisons and juvenile facilities, resulting in the elimination of over 48,000 state prison beds and an estimated cost savings of over $345 million.

Reduced capacity has created the opportunity to repurpose closed prisons for a range of uses outside of the correctional system, including adaptive reuse for urban redevelopment. 

 

We combine tax incentives with adaptive reuse of decommissioned prisons, transforming them from social burden to social good.

Front Range Exchange is combining tax incentives and adaptive reuse. This business strategy is similar to Tesla that relies on its $1.2 billion per year in transferrable tax credits and built its first Tesla EV factory as an adaptive reuse conversion of an abandoned legacy manufacturing plant. Some of these tax credits include US Treasury Opportunity Zones or Internal Revenue Code 45(D) Low-Income Communities, Solar Investment Tax Credits IRC Section 48, and New Markets Tax Credits for Low-Income Community Redevelopment.

Additionally, the USDA has two agencies – Rural Development and Rural Utility Service – that are dedicated to rural economic development, including financing. For example, the Rural Electricity for America Program (REAP) provides low- cost credit for rural power infrastructure projects. REAP provides an additional $25 million of junior debt per rural power plant. This is in addition to the tax credit previously mentioned.

The FRX solar power capex plan requires over 100MW installation per site at a cost of over $100 million per site. The availability of low-cost mezzanine financing from the government plus low leverage achieved through the “tax equity” dramatically reduces project financing risk.

 

OPPORTUNITY ZONES

Front Range Exchange invests exclusively in rural census tracts designated as US Treasury Opportunity Zones or Internal Revenue Code 45(D) Low-Income Communities. This investment strategy makes available state and federal funding that lowers the cost of capital important to make North American mining operations competitive with foreign operators.

Opportunity Zones are an economic development tool that allows people to invest in distressed areas in the United States.  Their purpose is to spur economic growth and job creation in low-income communities while providing tax benefits to investors.

Opportunity Zones were created under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (Public Law No. 115-97). Thousands of low-income communities in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories are designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones.

RENEWABLE ENERGY & NEW MARKETS  

Solar Investment Tax Credits (ITC) claimed under IRC Section 48 for qualified solar energy property, fiber-optic solar equipment, fuel cell property and small-wind-energy property, the Disaster Relief Act extended the beginning-of-construction deadline by two years to December 31, 2023. Eligible projects that begin construction during 2022 will qualify for the current 26% rate.

The Biden Administrations’s FY2022 budget and Treasury Green Book proposes to restore the ITC to its original amount of 30%, starting in 2022 for eligible properties that begin construction after December 31, 2021 and before January 1, 2027.

There is also a 39% federal tax credit for Low-Income Community redevelopment called the New Markets Tax Credits (NMTC), which aims to attract private investment necessary to reinvigorate struggling local economies.

These two credits may be combined, or “stacked” together.

FRX BUSINESS MODEL

Front Range Exchange is a holding company organized as a Colorado public benefits corporation with three subsidiaries; FRX Properties LLC, FRX Software LLC, and FRX Financial LLC. We also will manage under contract the FRX Rural Local Electric Cooperative.

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FRX FINANCIAL ("FRXF")

FRXF is an in-house finance company designed to accelerate the sale of Units. FRXF will assist in providing financing for buyers of FRXP Units. FRXF may inventory, or hold, term notes secured by mortgages, or sell onward into the capital markets or offer a bank participation.

Overtime FRXF anticipates leveraging fintech to broaden the financial products offered to SoMi Members. The Company intends to organize the Members’ cooperative as a member- owned credit union. Credit union powers would establish funding flexibility for member financial services. The credit union field of membership will be condo owners.

FRX PROPERTIES ("FRXP")

As a core business FRX is a low-capex, low-risk real estate developer. The Company acquires target property, subdivides, makes improvements, leases, and resells at a premium. The firm’s strategy is to sell or syndicate the properties as “multi-unit commercial” to passive investors. The FRX subdivision map overlays the existing physical subdivision of acquired jails – the jail cells. Converting the cells to separately titled Units are an opportunity for individual ownership of a bitcoin-linked commercial real estate product.

FRX Properties seeks to maximize the return on capital through technology. The FRX tenants are exclusively data centers, a well-understood asset class. Cap rates have improved to reflect the high growth in the segment. The valuation of the $115 billion publicly traded data center REITs is thirty times (30x) free cash flow, a 60% premium to other REIT sectors. FRX intends to publicly list a closed end feeder fund.

REAL ESTATE PRODUCT:

The FRX facilities will be offered as individually titled Units. The commercial condos will be turn-key crypto mining properties.

There is minimal structural construction risk in the plan because the existing cells are used as the subdivision. Each Unit will own corresponding percentage of the adjacent solar plant. Bitcoin mining hardware and software will be fully installed and a long-term lease will be delivered with each condo Unit.

Standard projected pricing and terms are USD$1 million per Unit housing 100 mining servers with a $30,000 per year in Base Rent income ($300/server/year).

Some Units will be offered with Base Rent plus Participating Rent, similar to many commercial leases. Participating Rent will be bitcoin indexed.

REAL ESTATE DISTRIBUTION:

FRX distribution has three primary channels, International, Financed, and Digital. The international channel uses US federal government incentives to sell Units to non-institutional investors by bundling benefits – specifically immigration benefits conferred to international investors that invest in eligible LIC- designated areas.

In 2019 Congress amended the green card legislation (“EB5”) to make it more stringent and avoid prior abuses. Immigration amendments included substantive changes that benefit FRX and FRX communities, including harder area eligibility qualification, higher required minimum investment ($1,800,000), and a 50% discount for LIC eligible areas like FRX’s ($900,000 minimum).

Marketing commercial real estate to the EB5 buyer lowers the overall cost of capital and maximizes the value of the inventory in sales to investors that are less price sensitive (EB5s average 1.5% return).

 

FRX SOFTWARE ("FRXS")

To expand distribution beyond the International channel to Digital channel, FRXS will “digitally subdivide” each Unit by tokenizing the real estate. The Company has developed CellBlock, a blockchain based platform to syndicate each Unit and its associated solar cell power installation.

CellBlock property management technology – its Proptech – immutably records the titleholder on the digital ledger for each legal Unit at each location. The Units on the ledger may be placed in a pool open to outside investors. Tokenized equity interests may be purchased on a rolling basis in a JOBS Act-compliant crowd funding offering.

CellBlock will facilitate an active secondary market for exchanging title interests in the FRX properties. FRX Software will earn fees for title transfers and by offering other incentives over time, including leverage, hedging, and structured products.

CellBlock will publish TimeMachine, its proprietary digital clock. TimeMachine tracks the man-hours in jail saved; time citizens are with their families or time working paying taxes. The ‘machine’ is inspired by the iconic National Debt Clock in Manhattan and the Smoking Lung Cancer Clock campaign designed to create awareness. The TimeMachine is an engagement tool that makes the human impact of jail real. App-delivered data are published showing cumulative days saved and other milestones, as well as a personalized TimeMachine number of days saved by the Member’s actual investment amount.

The billionaire creator of the National Debt Clock famously said, “if it makes you uncomfortable, it’s working.” The TimeMachine will provoke reaction and serve to remind.

FRX RURAL LOCAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ("R-LEC").

 SoMi System is organized around an FRX Owners Association that is a Colorado cooperative. The Owners Association is comprised of owners of the Units with participation required by the Bylaws.

There are projected to be 375 Units at Site No. 1 and 500 Units at Site No. 2, so there should be a minimum of 875 members in the cooperative, plus all Members that become fractional owners through the Digital sales channel.

The cooperative structure extends the FRX government financing without benefits strategy further. A primary mission of the SoMi Owners Association will be to serve as an electric cooperative for the solar plant. There are over 900 electric cooperatives in the US, which have been prominent since the New Deal sought electrification of rural America. Congress continues to fully appropriate programs that support rural electrification. There are loan programs, as well as institutions like quasi-government Colorado-based CoBank, the $130 billion bank chartered to serve US cooperatives.

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SoMi System

The SoMi System of the Front Range Exchange aligns government policy objectives with private sector profit goals. The capital requirements, power demands, and infrastructure needs of an institutional-scale crypto mining business is enabled by the capital arbitrage strategy. FRX is thereby a low-cost provider without locating in a foreign jurisdiction. Rural communities are benefitted, and mass incarceration is positively effected. The impending stimulus-funded infrastructure spend of the federal government – including digital infrastructure – creates substantial additional tailwinds for FRX in building out its green bitcoin data-centers.

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