Economic Development

Nikki Purvis, chief equity officer for the city of Milwaukee, will become the new leader of the Wisconsin African American Chamber of Commerce, the chamber's board of directors announced Thursday."Whether it's community relations, economic…

This story was updated at 4:15 p.m. on August 3, 2022, to include…

Applications are now being accepted for a grant program that supports innovation on Kaua'i. The County Office of Economic Development invites proposals for the 2022-2023 fiscal year innovation grants.…

KANNAPOLIS — business equipment magazine, a source of business information for national economic development site selection professionals, has ranked Rowan County among the top 10 metropolitan areas in North America for food…

City hall press release Mayor Turner joins Houston Fund for Social Justice and Economic Equity and Wells Fargo to launch OPEN FOR BUSINESS grant portal $20 million earmarked for various Houston-area small businesses…

MONROE, La. (KNOE) — A boutique hotel in downtown Monroe is set to get tax incentives to ensure the project reaches the finish line.On July 26, the Monroe City Council approved an incentive for properties in the Walnut Street Economic…

Marshall County Administrator Betsy Frohnapfel, left, addresses the county commission regarding a housing needs assessment. Also pictured are County Commissioners, left to right, John Gruzinskas, Mike Ferro and Scott Varner.MOUNDSVILLE…

“We just landed the largest commercial investment project in Kansas…

The Claremore Industrial and Economic Development Authority has launched an online job portal that allows businesses and job seekers in Rogers County to advertise and search for job vacancies at no cost.It's called Career Portals on…

VIETNAM, July 19 - A view of the town of Cà Mau. The province of Cà Mau is striving to achieve an economic growth target of 7% this year. — Photo camau.gov.vn HCM…

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Downtown Haverhill will receive $8 million in public economic development assistance if the state House of Representatives is successful. The House agreed Thursday afternoon to include the Haverhill Amendment, proposed by Rep. Andy X.…

IMPACT 307Wyoming's National Network of Innovation-Driven Business Incubators, is committed to developing and strengthening Wyoming's entrepreneurial communities. John Wetzel has been selected to join IMPACT 307 as a new business…

A group of researchers from Michigan Technological University (MTU) say a fully renewable energy grid could be achieved if the United States converts mines into hydroelectric batteries. Such mines could pave the way for “the most…

Submitted Photo Delegate Cody Thompson, D-43rd District, presents Randolph County Senior Center Manager Laura Ward with a grant check for $4,000. !-->…

"We have full confidence in China economic development,” Xi said.China will continue to promote high-quality development, expand high-level opening up with firm resolve, and pursue high-quality Belt and Road cooperation. » More equitable…

The stagnation hypothesis is not universally accepted. Ideas can be combined and recombined, creating a combinatorial explosion of new innovations, an effect that counteracts the swallowing of fruit at hand. And some pointed out that if…

Albany County Executive Daniel P. McCoy today announced the passage of Local Law A, the Sustainable Technology and Green Energy (STAGE) Act, which establishes a green economic development plan to conserve and grow renewable energy…

Kojo A.QuarteyEducational attainment is critically important in the economic development equation. In fact, it's so important that it's one of the top three variables in the International Human Development Index (HDI). The other two are…

Compliance with the standards established by the laws is part of your organizational duties to build trust and credibility The vision of JR Compliance: real economic growth lies in compliance with the…

This article was written by Conor Courtney, Head of Strategic Initiatives for Arlington Economic Development. Arlington's Amazon HQ2 offering brought the manpower issue at the center of future economic development projects. As…

New Hanover County Passed Budget Cuts Property Taxes, Strengthens Community Investments NEW HANOVER COUNTY, North Carolina – During Monday's meeting, the New Hanover County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously to pass a $508…

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania – Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding today announced that funding is available for interested parties to develop a sustainable agricultural plastics recycling program. The Agricultural Plastics Recycling Project…

Actions taken by the City of Gadsden over the past two weeks will continue work to develop unused space at the Coosa Landing site - and, as city leaders envision, support development efforts local economics, entrepreneurship and innovation…

Mid South Extrusion, which produces polyethylene films for food packaging and other consumer and industrial uses, is investing $4.9 million to add a 12th production line at its Monroe manufacturing facility. The company will retain 170…

ST. LOUIS - The 60-mile stretch of Illinois 3 between Godfrey and Waterloo generates $16 billion in annual business revenue and supports 221,881 direct and indirect jobs, according to a new economic impact study commissioned by the St.…

OKLAHOMA CITY — Oklahoma's new anti-abortion laws will hurt the state's…

Only 8.6% of the world is currently circular, and that proportion needs to nearly double to reduce the global carbon footprint and address other critical environmental challenges. Collaboration is necessary to achieve…

The Hawai'i Technology Development Corporation, HTDC, announced this week that the State of Hawaii's application has been approved by the US Treasury for the State Small Business Credit Initiative, a…

It's official. Hyundai Motor Group is building a massive new vehicle plant in southeast Georgia – the first fully dedicated electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facility in the state. Hyundai will invest…

I recently did quite a bit of research on the subject of international trade for Africa. The received wisdom for developing countries is that they must trade their paths towards economic development. Not that they have much…

Insight In October 2021, G-20 leaders finalized a new global tax agreement aimed at tackling tax avoidance by large multinational enterprises (MNEs). The agreement, negotiated by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and…

Placeholder while loading article actionsWhen Amazon announced it would locate its second headquarters in Arlington, local officials wasted no time in presenting it as a chance to build something much bigger: This corner of Northern…

Regarding the sale of Bridgeport's Sikorsky Airport: This latest criminally stupid disposal of an extremely valuable Bridgeport asset by the Ganim administration speaks to the Ganim administration's chronic short-sightedness,…

The co-chair of the Saskatchewan Indigenous Economic Development Network says there are many reasons to celebrate the organization's tenth anniversary. The Economic Development Network was founded in 2012 to…

The Ann Arbor City Council met at Larcom City Hall Thursday evening to approve the Industrial Installations Exemption Certificatea municipal tax incentive sanctioned by Michigan law to provide tax reductions of up to 50% to private…

Images of Bryan ISD and the town of College Station. Recruitment in the area of ​​economic development was discussed at recent meetings of the Bryan ISD School Board and the College Station City Council. Bryan ISD receives over $2…

Wausau Town Hall. MWC file photo. WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) - It's officially back to the drawing board for three parcels of land located in the Riverlife development of Wausau.The Economic Development Committee voted on Tuesday to…

NEW ULM - Local economic development is seeing new growth from the private sector under the leadership of…

By Ben Rappaport, Chatham News + Record Staff Speakers at Tuesday's Chamber of Commerce development briefing touted recent economic development announcements and growth as evidence that Chatham County is heading in the right…

Governor Kathy Hochul announced today that Great Lakes Cheese has opened a new state-of-the-art manufacturing and packaging facility in Franklinville and Farmersville. With a capital investment of more than $518 million, the project is the…

Placeholder while loading article actionsNANJING, China — On a balmy Wednesday afternoon, two young men ventured out of their dorm to an industrial park to get their hair cut.They had time off as a lockdown in the city of Shanghai, more…

AITKIN – The Aitkin Area Chamber of Commerce is hosting the Opportunity Tour from noon to 7 p.m. on Friday, May 6 in Aitkin.The tour is an open house to show entrepreneurs the investments and rental properties available in the…

April 22, 2022 East St. Louis Mayor to Discuss Economic Development and City Budget CARBONDALE, Ill. – East St. Louis Mayor Robert Eastern III is the next guest in the…

2020 was supposed to be a milestone for international cooperation, with major global conferences on biodiversity, climate change, gender equality and more. Yet a year full of expectations and updates was finally canceled due to…

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles on how Paterson's mayoral candidates plan to solve the city's problems. An earlier history examined crime rate. PATERSON—The federal government unemployment New Jersey city stats…

The Frankston Economic Development Corporation has extended an…

John Falcicchio, the deputy mayor for planning and economic development, is the complete opposite of what one might think of as a distant senior city official with many titles and vague functions. On the one hand, Falcicchio is in…

Raven Hall. Image Credit: Office of Governor Kathy Hochul/HPD. The new building is 500 feet from the beach and boardwalk. On March 30, 2022, Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development…

Business is strong in Mansfield.Tim Bowersockthe city's director of economic development, provided an update on Tuesday Mansfield Town Council Meet.He said his office received 20 new leads in the first quarter of the year."We get a lead or…

In the first half of the 20th century, Falfurrias, Texas was known as a huge agricultural area, producing the state's first citrus industry which began here in 1909. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — There is an effort underway…

PARKERSBURG — The community is invited to attend a joint ribbon cutting and open house on Tuesday, April 12 at the new Wood County and Downtown Economic Development…

When the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians was looking to establish its first certified 8(a) contracting business, the tribe's economic development arm turned to a key partner within the state of Michigan for help. It was the…

Photo taken on Feb. 4, 2021 shows the Lahore converter station of the ±660 kV Matiari-Lahore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission project under the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) in eastern Punjab province of China.…

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By COLE REIFBig bend poleHow do you fund a $1.6 million daycare? Great Bend's economic development appears to be on track after Monday's joint meeting between Great Bend City Council and the Barton County Commission.Economic Development…

By Blake Kiger Cabarrus County Commissioner Ely Lily. Kroger. Red bull. Recently, these familiar business names have been making headlines in local newspapers.…

A roadmap for the county's future economic development has been updated. The County Office of Economic Development, in partnership with the Kaua'i Economic Development Council, announced in a news…

The 4th Annual Outdoor Economy Conference kicks off spring in western North Carolina, April 4-7, at the brand new Cherokee Convention Center in Cherokee, NC. After two years as a virtual event, the conference celebrates its return to an…

The Executive Director of the Piscataquis County Economic Development Council is leaving us after leading the organization for two years. John Shea has accepted a position as executive director of the North Central Kansas…

The Los Angeles Economic Development Corporation announced Friday, March 18 that California Film and Television Tax Credit 2.0 created nearly $21.9 billion in economic output over five years and supported 110,000 jobs. Overall, the program…

The Cole County Commission on Tuesday signed a contract with the Jefferson City Regional Economic Partnership to continue working on economic development in the county. The commissioners voted unanimously for the contract, but not before…

(Photo IIB/Alex Brown) A bill signed into law last week by Gov. Eric Holcomb includes a provision that took years to craft. Senate Registration Bill 361 was drafted to modernize the toolkit used by the Indiana Economic…

Paulding County CIC Director Dave Burtch (left) accepts a $15,000 economic development grant from PPEC CEO George Carter. Paulding Putnam Electric Cooperative's Economic Development Grant Program allows the co-operative to partner…

The YS Jagan Mohan Reddy government in Andhra Pradesh has come up with a simple model of economic development, rather than embarking on complex formats…

WASHINGTON — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt (Mo.), the Republican lead on the Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS) Appropriations Subcommittee, announced today that The Labor/HHS Funding Bill for FY22…

The EB-5 program has two parts. The first part is known as the direct program. This is a permanent US government program, established in 1990. It does not need to be reauthorized. However, it is small and not used to create jobs in…

BEIJING — Plowing past global concerns over war engulfing Ukraine, China has set its economy on a path of steady expansion for 2022, prioritizing growth, job creation and economic development. increase in social welfare in a year when the…

BOSTON — Lawmakers representing rural communities on Tuesday urged Baker administration officials to make sure they keep small towns in mind when it comes to economic development and job creation.Testifying virtually before members of the…

SOUTH SIOUX CITY – Call it a hat-trick. On Tuesday morning, business representatives and elected officials…

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