State governments across the United States are looking to address the challenge to create more workforce housing to meet the rising demand in rural and urban markets.  Housing and economic development professionals agree that new housing permits should be created on a 1:1 basis with the creation of net, new jobs.  Failure to meet this […]

Columbus, Ohio like many growing mid-sized urban markets streamlined the process to develop projects in their Downtown.  Downtown Columbus which is home to the Ohio Statehouse and corporate headquarters for Nationwide, Nationwide Arena, and many other buildings competes with not only suburbs for investment but areas of Columbus like Easton who has 80,000 jobs on

Local governments manage design, growth, and development typically through a comprehensive plan that can serve as a legally binding document that sets the overall goals, objectives, and policies to guide the local legislative body’s decision-making regarding the development of a region or community. However, how a local government manages this land use regulation can be

Economic development organizations and communities have become accustomed to the traditional corporate site location process that positions sites for investment opportunities. EDOs have spent decades working to build and market an inventory of shovel-ready sites, equipped with water, sewer, electric, gas, broadband, and roads at the “front door” to those sites; communities have established incentives

After successfully advocating for the development of a Public-Private-Partnership on behalf of Kansas City based industrial developer NorthPoint Development, Montrose Group was proud to participate in the groundbreaking for the Toledo Trade Center.  The Ohio Department of Development provided a $9.9 M Ohio Brownfield Redevelopment Grant that enabled the former NorthTowne Mall site in North