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Economic development director urges reactivated EDA, state tools and incentives to prepare county for new projects
Summary
Economic development director Dale Hendon outlined a vision to attract businesses and tourism, recommended reactivating the county's IDA/EDA, and flagged state programs — from enterprise zones to a Go Virginia site inventory grant — as tools to ready Westmoreland County for investment.
Dale Hendon, Westmoreland County's director of economic development, asked supervisors on Oct. 1 to reestablish an active economic development authority and use state programs and targeted incentives to prepare the county for new business investment.
"We want to facilitate a strong economy in Westmoreland County through business attraction, business retention and expansion, and tourism," Hendon said, summarizing the office's vision. He proposed quickly establishing simple bylaws for the IDA or EDA, returning an MOU for the board to define the relationship with the county, and using state tools to…
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