ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
The most successful Economic Development programs have a solid foundation from which to grow the community. At Strategic Location Advisors, our team has successfully worked in every aspect of economic development from Rural and Metro, to State and Regional level organizations. Hands-on real-world experience with:
- Industrial Park and Site Development
- Infrastructure Development
- Entrepreneurship/Small Business/Business Retention
- Target Sector Recruitment
- ARC, DRA, EDA, and Other Federal Funding Programs
- Local Incentive Development
- Board and Elected Official Leadership
- Robust Workforce Development Programs
- Economic Development Marketing
- Organizational Development
We use our expertise to identify and strengthen your value proposition through analysis, benchmarking, and recommendations. Schedule a meeting today to see how we can assist your growth.
Industrial Site Assessment
Preparing for a new industrial site? Increasing the marketability and success of existing sites? Either way, SLA can help you achieve the most important part of marketing your community.
Ready industrial sites are lacking nationwide and our team can assist you with positioning your sites to win through fatal flaw analysis, success mapping, marketing development, and more.
- Industrial Site Identification
- Existing Site Fatal Flaw Analysis
- Competitiveness Analysis
- Road Map to Marketability
Workforce Advantage Analysis
The second most important thing behind a ready industrial site is making sure you have the labor to meet the needs of business. Define your competitive labor advantage for industry with our team. Strategic Location Advisors dives into your true labor shed data, pinpoints distinct skilled advantages, analyzes workforce training capabilities, and benchmarks against competitors. At the end, your community has the data and marketing you need to showcase this important aspect to prospective clients.
Target Sector Analysis
Targeting specific industries allows your community to capture new job creation opportunities. Whether you want the low-hanging fruit, or a strategy to diversify, SLA delivers real-world analysis to you by reviewing all aspects of your value proposition including labor, supply chain/logistics, cluster analysis, and industrial site readiness.
Marketing Development
Simply having the right ingredients to win is never enough. Your community must have appropriate marketing content to bring your value proposition together and create success. In addition to helping you identify and strengthen your value proposition, we can design marketing to paint the picture of your community’s advantages for use online, in digital format, or for print.
Organizational Review
Setting up an Economic Development Organization for success isn’t easy, but we can make it that way. The Strategic Location Advisors team has assisted with the start-up of new organizations and the rebuilding of existing ones. Our experts can review and develop your org status, formation documents, by-laws, funding model, board of directors/leadership structure, operational procedures, and more.
Housing Needs Analysis
Housing has become a major issue across the nation. Strategic Location Advisors can analyze your housing demand using trusted data resources. Need more than just an analysis? Our team specialized in full housing strategies for communities to obtain affordable workforce housing. We do this using our strategic planning process with a focus on attainable housing.
- Housing Demand Analysis
- Employer and Worker Surveys
- Stakeholder Sessions with Realtors, Developers, Planning/Zoning, and more
- Strategy Development Specific to Your Community
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While the services listed are most often requested, we can apply our expertise to assist you in a variety of ways. Schedule a meeting with us to discover how we can help your community today.