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Delray Beach workshop prioritizes expedited permitting, targeted marketing to recruit high-wage employers
Summary
At a Dec. 1 Delray Beach City Commission workshop, staff and outside partners reviewed updated economic data and recommended focusing on expedited permitting, a real-estate inventory and targeted marketing to attract finance, technology and other high-wage employers; staff will return in early January with ordinance language and resource needs.
Delray Beach commissioners on Dec. 1 heard an updated economic-development briefing and signaled support for a push to recruit higher-wage employers by tightening permitting timelines, building a current property inventory and funding targeted marketing.
Assistant City Manager Jeff Orris opened the workshop by summarizing a consultant update to the city’s 2021 economic-development profile and key local indicators, saying the city’s population is roughly 67,500, per-capita income is about $56,000–$57,000 and the poverty rate is about 15.8 percent. Orris noted the city has $500,000 in an economic-development fund for incentives and that Delray’s highly developed footprint limits opportunities for large new buildings.
Why it matters: Commissioners and outside partners said Delray’s limited developable land makes it essential to recruit the right kinds of employers — smaller headquarters, family offices and professional-services firms that fit in existing downtown space — and to…
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