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Consultants identify health care, professional services, tourism and small-scale manufacturing as priority target sectors for Bend
Summary
Echo Northwest recommended health care, professional services, tourism/recreation and specialty small‑scale manufacturing as priority growth targets for Bend, and advised linking any incentive eligibility to clear, data‑driven rationale.
Consultants from Echo Northwest told the Visitor Development Advisory Board on Jan. 9 that Bend's strongest and fastest‑growing employment concentrations are in health care and social assistance, professional/scientific/technical services, construction and tourism‑related sectors, and they recommended those clusters as candidate targets for city economic-development incentives.
"Bend's growth since ... 2007 is really mirrored in the growth of Deschutes County in Central Oregon," consultant Beth Goodman summarized, and she described the work as a data‑driven input to a larger Economic Opportunities Analysis and a forthcoming Economic Development Strategy.
Why it matters: the city will use target‑sector recommendations to inform land‑use planning (EOA) and to…
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