2023 MEDA Chesapeake Basic Economic Development Course
What You’ll Learn:
- Grow your skills and understanding of economic development foundational elements
- Best practices in economic and community development
- Managing an economic development program
- Financing economic development projects and using incentives
- Explore new methods and programs to promote job growth and investment
- Business retention and expansion
- Marketing and business attraction
- Discuss emerging trends and factors that shape local and regional economies
- Ethics in economic development
- Gain detailed knowledge of successful initiatives
- Strategic planning
- Small business and entrepreneurship
- Tools for planning your economy and how to use them.
- Researching your prospects and building a community data profile.
- Real estate development and reuse
- Neighborhood revitalization
- Managing real estate inventory.
- Develop a valuable network of fellow economic development professionals and resources
- Learn from outstanding experts and practitioners in the field