Before a consultant ever opens your incentive package, they have already formed an opinion from your website, your photos, and whether your community looks like a place their client would move a family to.
Labor-shed numbers are easy to quote and easy to misuse. A short field guide to the figures that matter, the ones that flatter, and how to present both honestly.
Abatements and grants close deals that other factors already opened. Communities that lead with money often lose to communities that lead with readiness.
Across the state, courthouse squares that were half-empty a decade ago are filling back in. What is driving it, and why it matters to the industrial recruiter across town.