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  • Leverages business growth by focusing on job creation in non-retail activities, thereby creating increased economic activity throughout the region.
  • Focuses on identified business activity sectors with the highest potential to complement Southern Idaho’s economic strengths. These sectors include agriculture, food processing, manufacturing, technology, transportation/distribution and business services.
  • Pools financial funds to help business recruitment efforts for capital investment and job creation.
  • Helps fund regional business marketing efforts, such as the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization, which promotes the region in national and regional business expansion publications and trade shows.
  • Through SIEDO, pushes initiatives to attract employees to the region to fill the rapidly expanding economy.
  • Encourages re-investment from invested companies, thereby creating an ongoing local fund from which even more economic development can be encouraged.
  • Concentrates on good-paying jobs in environmentally-sound businesses, which attract qualified employees and promote workforce longevity.
  • Stimulates area-wide business activity, which helps grow the value of business property, residential property, and the region’s tax base through the generation of new wealth.
  • Promotes development of strong public infrastructure and social entities, including schools, through which further economic development can occur.