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New Website Showcases Gallup-McKinley County’s Business Advantages

Thursday, May 30, 2019

Gallup, NM – The Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation (GGEDC) just launched a redesigned website to strengthen its online presence and highlight business advantages in this rapidly growing region of New Mexico. “The redesign of the GGEDC website continues a commitment to the City of Gallup and McKinley County to provide a state of the art economic development website to promote the local business climate and opportunities,” said GGEDC Executive Director Patty Lundstrom. The comprehensive website is easy to navigate and includes customized reporting features. It will be a valuable tool for site selectors and businesses as it includes a host of...

New Website Showcases Gallup-McKinley County’s Business Advantages

Thursday, May 30, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Gallup, NM – The Greater Gallup Economic Development Corporation (GGEDC) just launched a redesigned website to strengthen its online presence and highlight business advantages in this rapidly growing region of New Mexico. “The redesign of the GGEDC website continues a commitment to the City of Gallup and McKinley County to provide a state of the art economic development website to promote the local business climate and opportunities,” said GGEDC Executive Director Patty Lundstrom. The comprehensive website is easy to navigate and includes customized reporting features. It will be a valuable tool for site selectors and businesses as it includes...

New Website Demonstrates Carlsbad’s Business Opportunities

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Carlsbad, NM – The Carlsbad Department of Development (CDOD) just launched a cutting edge website that showcases business opportunities and advantages in this burgeoning region of New Mexico. The customized online portal will serve as a valuable tool for economic development. “In today’s world, a good website is necessary for recruitment,” said Jeff Campbell, CDOD Director of Marketing and Business Development. “Virtual site visits, coupled with current data make our website a great resource for site selectors and developers alike.”? The user friendly website has a comprehensive array of details for prospective businesses, such as available sites, zoning, business...

Interpretive Center Meets Goals for Accessibility with PlaceVR Kiosk

Friday, May 24, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site Collaborates with Golden Shovel Agency to Bring Virtual Reality Experience to Visitors (Little Falls, MN, May 24, 2019) – Visitors to the Lower Sioux Agency Historic Site can now experience the expansive trails and outlying structures with an immersive virtual reality (VR) experience made possible by Golden Shovel Agency’s PlaceVR technology. The historic site might be anchored by the museum building where visitors can learn about the history of the Dakota community, but it’s on the prairie and river bluff trails where people can really get a sense for the land where that history...

Website Illustrates Seguin’s Business Advantages

Monday, May 20, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Seguin, TX – The Seguin Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) just released a new website that will serve as a valuable tool to promote its economic development mission to support area businesses and families while attracting new ones. “The Seguin EDC is excited to launch our very own standalone website to help strengthen our overall economic development efforts,” said Executive Director Josh Schneuker. Previously, the Seguin EDC had a subpage within the city’s website. Now the organization has its own sophisticated online portal to enhance its online brand while marketing to businesses and prospective residents. The online portal organizes and presents...

City of Tracy Launches Comprehensive New Economic Development Website

Wednesday, April 24, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Tracy, Calif. – The City of Tracy’s Economic Development Division just launched a comprehensive new website to encourage job growth and make the decision to bring your business and family to work, play and live “inside the triangle” simple and more streamlined. The site, thinkinsidethetriangle.com, was created to provide access to resources for community members, as well as site selectors and businesses considering coming to Tracy. “The website is a key component of our strategic effort to refresh the City’s brand, enhance community engagement and attract new businesses to Tracy,” stated Mayor Robert Rickman. “We encourage the...

IRS Releases Latest Round Of Opportunity Zone Regulations: Where Do We Stand Now?

Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Article by Forbes AP Photo/Andrew Harnik As part of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Congress enacted two companion provisions designed to encourage investment and economic growth in certain low-income communities. First, Sec. 1400Z-1 paved the way for nearly 9,000 such low-income communities to be designated as "qualified opportunity zones" (QOZs). In turn, Sec. 1400Z-2 offers three federal income tax incentives to a taxpayer who invests in a business located within one of these zones: (1) the temporary deferral of capital gains, to the extent the gains are reinvested into a "qualified opportunity fund" (QOF); (2) the partial exclusion of previously deferred...

New Website Highlights Business Opportunities in Palestine, Texas

Tuesday, March 26, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Palestine, TX – Palestine Economic Development Corporation (PEDC) has unveiled a redesigned online portal to showcase the many business opportunities and assets in Palestine, Texas. The website serves as an important resource for site selectors and businesses looking to locate to the area. The website is attractive, easy-to-use and comprehensive — strengthening the organization’s online presence and providing vital facts for site selectors and corporate investors. It also provides powerful GIS Planning tools that pinpoint available properties and enable community comparisons and auto- population of the area’s demographics and labor force. Additionally, prospective residents can find details about Palestine’s...

Purpose of Communities

Wednesday, February 06, 2019

The Secret to Workforce Attraction is Purpose and Fulfillment. Earlier this year, my Uncle Tom passed away. I attended the funeral in the small Nebraska town and spent most of the time reflecting on how the town had changed and why people remained or left. I remembered family gatherings and community dinners where the fire hall was so full of people that moving around was almost impossible. The events were loud and joyous. People were held together by a sense of community and purpose. But changed? Why were towns, like this one, across the country shrinking? As I let these thoughts drift in...

Katy Area Economic Development Council Launches Website to Showcase Business Advantages

Monday, January 14, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release Katy, TX – The Katy Area Economic Development Council (Katy Area EDC) has launched a new comprehensive website to bolster its online presence and highlight business opportunities and advantages in this burgeoning area of southeast Texas. Katy Area EDC is focused on business recruitment, development and expansion in and around Katy, Texas, which is just 25 miles west of Houston. The user friendly, online portal includes an array of information about the region, including its workforce, business incentives and quality of life. It features powerful Zoom Prospector and GIS Planning tools that enable auto population of area demographics...

New Website Highlights Kentucky Lake’s Business & Industry Assets

Monday, December 10, 2018

By 24-7 Press Release Benton, KY – Kentucky Lake Economic Development just launched a comprehensive website to elevate its online presence and showcase Marshall County, Kentucky’s abundant opportunities and business advantages. This will serve as an important asset for site selectors and investors. "We are extremely excited to reinvent how we do economic development in Marshall County, Kentucky, with Kentucky Lake Economic Development. We are on the verge of a more aggressive and strategic approach moving forward that is generating a level of energy in our community that we have never seen before,” said Josh Tubbs, president of Kentucky Lake Economic Development....

VR Technology Brings Economic Developers and Site Selectors Together

Monday, September 10, 2018

Economic developers face an uphill battle to get site selectors and executives to visit their community and tour available properties. With site selectors scouting locations throughout the country, and potentially the world, it can take months or years of concerted efforts to arrange for a FAM tour. VR technology is solving this problem by making it possible for site selectors and executive to visit communities in the virtual world. Minnesota-based communication firm Golden Shovel recognized the potential for virtual-reality to bridge the gap and make these connections possible. In 2017, the firm launched a new service, PlaceVR, making it possible...

With Oculus Go, VR for Economic Development is Ready for Business

Thursday, July 19, 2018

By Aaron Brossoit Golden Shovel Agency unveiled PlaceVR in Toronto at the 2017 International Economic Development Council’s Annual Conference. Our team showcased the first 360 videos of familiarization tours and site tours to the industry. For economic development professionals promoting their regions, these spherical videos are the best way to virtually bring people into a region or community. In September of 2017, however, the VR viewer options that were available for showcasing the videos were still limited. There were the top quality systems like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive and the Playstation VR which presented a great VR experience, but was burdensome...

Golden Shovel Agency Presents Workforce Attraction Strategies to TELCO Executives

Monday, March 18, 2019

By 24-7 Press Release LITTLE FALLS, MN – Golden Shovel Agency COO, Ron Kresha, presented workforce attraction strategies at the NTCA – The Rural Broadband Association Telco Executive Forum in Clearwater, FL. The data-driven presentation outlined the current workforce attraction efforts for communities and how understanding the millennial workforce will improve workforce attraction. The presentation identified the changing economic landscape of rural communities and how rural communities have the opportunity to grow. Additionally, the presentation pinpointed ways the modern workforce is positioned to move into rural communities. “The modern workforce has a unique set of values and skills that will bring more innovation...

7 Steps to Digital Marketing

Monday, March 04, 2019

Understanding the daily duties of economic development professionals, it can be hard to find the time to reply to emails let alone create, implement and manage a digital marketing plan. So if you're wondering and asking yourself - where to begin and how to build and implement it, here's a set of questions we ask all the client’s we assist with their digital campaigns and content creation. Asking yourself the following 7 questions will provide you a great start to your digital marketing plan, or to identify if your current plan is effective. If you are unable to answer yourself, I...

Opportunity Zone “Investment Ready” - Is Your Community Ready?

Thursday, December 27, 2018

What does it mean and what a community can do to attract investments? Save the date for January 17th, for an indepth look at becoming investment ready in your community during our expert webinar. Register here. While the idea behind Opportunity Zones has been in the works for over 10 years, it was the passage of the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act that finally brought them into being. Congress’ main goal for establishing Opportunity Zones, is to support investments in low-income neighborhoods by letting individuals and corporations capture unrealized capital gains through long-term investments in designated census tracts. In return, private investors...

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