Business Expansion and Retention Services

CEDC’s professional staff bring decades in professional experience to help your business add new jobs and retain current ones. Some of the ways we can help include:

• Serve as a resource of regional economic and demographic information
• Assist builders, developers, site selectors and companies with site selection
• Maintain a comprehensive database of open commercial property inventory
• Market Columbia County to potential investors
• Provide infrastructure assistance, including connecting organizations to funding and planning sources.
• Execute economic development project management
• Facilitate workforce and education collaborative programming between educational institutions, businesses, and community partners.
• Foster collaborative relationships between municipalities to cut through red tape.
• Participate in state and regional economic development organizations to track the latest information on new programs
• Bridge the gap between government representatives and the business community