Economic Development

What We Do

The Economic Development Division is responsible for encouraging business investment opportunities and job creation, expanding the City's tax base, supporting business attraction and retention activities, and assisting business building efforts through innovative and implementable approaches that advance inclusion, diversity, and accessibility.

The Economic Development Division serves several functions. In keeping with our responsibility to market the City and attract, assist, and retain businesses, we :

• help business owners navigate the business creation process,
• conduct outreach within the business community to identify the needs and concerns of local business owners,
• identify and create programs to assist local businesses,
• locate underused commercial properties and work with owners and leasing agents to help them find the right tenants,
• market and promote the City at networking events like the International Council of Shopping Centers conference to attract high-profile tenants,
• manage the lease and sale of City-owned properties, and
• act as liaison to the Business Improvement District.