CWS Services

Business Attraction and Economic Development

Our professionals have many years of experience in helping companies make difficult location, investment, and staffing decisions. We use this experience to provide frank advice to governments and development agencies on how they fare in competitive situations.

Now more than ever, economic development needs to help move the community towards new realms of employment and economic activity.  We help communities understand their moving parts and how these can be assembled to make compelling location solutions for new industries.  We help our clients determine their existing economic clusters and position these assets for future success.

Economic Development

We help communities and development agencies develop strategies for better targeting and for improving their results. We use our public planning and location strategy knowledge to show state and local governments how they can balance business attraction and other community goals. We help them identify regional strengths and weaknesses, public and private partners, drive consensus, and position themselves for future success.

If you’d like to know more on Asset Repositioning, you might want to read our article in the American Planning Association, Economic Development Division’s newsletter – Legacy of Place and Economic Development.  Please contact us for a copy.