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Learn more about where we are heading!
Short Term Goals
At present the CEDC is focused on the region's economic recovery
and the successful development of several key projects - Assisting
in the development of shovel-ready, fully serviced industrial sites
and transportation infrastructure - Implementing outreach marketing
strategies -Identifying industrial sectors that compliment the array
of business and industry currently located in Cowlitz County - Working
with local businesses to resolve specific issues affecting their
company. The current focus of the CEDC will help ensure that our
long-term goal of a sustainable economy is met.
Long Term Goals
To most communities, new business means more business. The economic
spillover from the addition of a plant or factory benefits not only
its employees and their families, but the entire community as well.
The flow of payroll dollars into local cash registers and bank accounts
results in a net gain to the local economy. Increases in other sectors
of employment, plus increases in population, school enrollment,
and overall growth, reflect the general economic expansion generated
by new business. The overall goal is to develop an increased tax
base providing a better quality of life for our businesses and citizens.
Additionally, it is a sustainable economy that the CEDC is attempting
to grow and promote in Cowlitz County. Sustainability is often defined
as meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability
of future generations to meet their own needs. Economic Development
is not the end, but rather the means to an end, which is ultimately
a higher quality of life for Cowlitz County.
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