With the strong economy and low unemployment rate, some are suggesting that states no longer need to offer incentives to companies to locate or expand facilities. Steve Scranton, chief investment officer for Washington Trust Bank, told the Treasure Valley Chief Financial ...

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COEUR D’ALENE — In many ways, this city’s economic development situation is like Boise’s: Rampant growth and a lack of workforce and affordable housing – with the added bonus of a state with no income tax and a $12 minimum wage ...

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Robin Collins, who joined the city of Kuna in December as economic development coordinator, has left that position to become the economic development director for the city of Eagle, effective June 18. Before joining Kuna, Collins was assistant economic development ...

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While business and economic development has typically been the purview of governmental and quasi-governmental organizations, increasingly utility companies are playing a role. “Across the country, utilities like Idaho Power have business development teams, providing that single point of contact,” said ...

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A new federal program may bring investment money to up to 28 low-income census tracts in Idaho. Opportunity Zones are a community development program established by Congress in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The purpose of the program ...

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It’s a great time to be an economic development professional in Idaho. While regions, counties, and some cities have had economic development staff for some time, an increasing number of cities are hiring these professionals. “A lot of cities are ...

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Eastern Idaho has unified on the economic development front. Pocatello is the last of the region’s larger cities to join the Idaho Falls-based Regional Economic Development for Eastern Idaho, or REDI. Rexburg joined REDI in January and Chubbuck joined it ...

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The city of McCall will expand its community development department Oct. 1 to formally include economic development. “It better reflects some of the work we are already doing,” said Michelle Groenevelt, McCall’s community development director. “We will be more intentional ...

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Century-old warehouse districts across the country have found renewed life, largely as popular entertainment districts, and now Twin Falls has its own ideas for empty warehouses at downtown’s southern edge. Twin Falls wants to fill warehouses with small manufacturers, especially ...

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Jan Rogers paints a picture of eastern Idaho as the state’s education, research and high-tech powerhouse. “We own higher education,” said Rogers, executive director of the newly established Regional Economic Development Eastern Idaho, a merging of the economic development agencies ...

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