Business Expansion & Job Growth
Target industries
- BioScience
- Technology
- Advance
- Manufacturing/Sustainability
- Food & Beverage Manufacturing
- Wood Products
- Construction
- Healthcare industries
Strategies
- Incubate groups and organizations supporting targeted industries by providing administrative, event planning, and marketing services.
- Retain and expand existing businesses by engaging and assisting target industries and other high-impact employers driving our economy:
- Rapid Response Team to intervene in situations involving a company’s possible expansion or departure.
- CEO roundtable meetings: create solutions to key challenges businesses are facing and connect public officials with targeted industries.
- Guide businesses to local incentives in support of business location and growth
- Host a summit series that brings together business leaders and national experts to share best practices in economic and workforce development, young professional engagement, and community solutions.
- Serve as the proactive “voice of business” by rallying community support and advancing a business-friendly environment that encourages investment unimpeded by political and regulatory uncertainty.