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Economic development update: Sandoval Economic Alliance highlights business retention, site‑readiness and US Cotton closure
Summary
Fred Shepherd, president and CEO of the Sandoval Economic Alliance, told commissioners on Jan. 20 that SEA’s work emphasizes business retention and site‑readiness while SEA and county staff pursue ways to market government‑owned sites for new investment.
Fred Shepherd, president and CEO of the Sandoval Economic Alliance (SEA), told the Board of County Commissioners on Jan. 20 that the county’s economic development work continues to focus on job retention and growth among local businesses, while the county and SEA advance site‑readiness work to make government‑owned parcels more marketable.
Shepherd said SEA’s business retention and expansion program has visited more than the contract goal of 20 businesses this fiscal year and that roughly half of the visits have been in rural parts of the county. He said an economic gardening approach — which targets “stage 2” firms with 10–99 employees and growing revenues — and a microeconomic gardening program for smaller firms…
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