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County economic development specialist urges proactive site-selection and municipal collaboration
Summary
Jared Soto outlined a proactive site-selection strategy to attract businesses while protecting open space, proposing targeted outreach to municipalities and landowners, collaboration with Wildlands and Penns Northeast, and use of GIS and outreach videos.
Jared Soto, Carbon County’s economic development specialist, told the Open Space Advisory Board that proactive site-selection and stronger county–municipal collaboration could help the county attract targeted industry while protecting open-space priorities.
"How do we kind of make ourselves more competitive... the more things that we could kind of do to be more proactive with, like, marketing existing buildings, existing land," Soto said, outlining five target industry types and…
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