Montrose clients had a strong year in 2022 as industrial development continued to grow, state and federal funding flowed, and lobbying clients blossomed. Montrose highlights for 2022 include:

Corporate Site Location and Project Financing.

  • Successfully advocated for a $50,000 JobsOhio workforce development grant for an Ohio corporate site location project for a computer software firm;
  • Successfully advised a Northwest Ohio community to develop a Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement that led to the attraction of a new $536M manufacturing facility and the creation of 450 jobs;
  • Successfully advised the Van Wert Port Authority, Ohio on two local projects valued at $11.6M; and
  • Successfully advocated for a $2M JobsOhio Ohio Site Inventory Program infrastructure grant for a national industrial developer to develop a 350-acre site in Columbus, Ohio.

Economic Development Advisors.

  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Ashville, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Delaware County, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Forest Park, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Greenfield, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Madison County, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to North Canton, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Ohio Mid-Eastern Governments Association;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Pataskala, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Piqua, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Southwest Licking Water, and Sewer District in Licking County, Ohio;
  • Serving as an economic development advisor to Strongsville, Ohio; and
  • Serving as economic development recruiter for Delaware County and City of Forest Park, Ohio.

Economic Development Planning.

  • Developing the regional comprehensive economic development plan and fiscal analysis for Circleville, Ohio;
  • Developing the regional comprehensive economic development plan for Morrow County, Ohio;
  • Developing the regional comprehensive economic development plan for Plain City, Ohio;
  • Developing the regional comprehensive economic development plan for Union Township, Licking County, Ohio;
  • Successfully developed two Downtown Redevelopment District plans that created an incentive program in a Northwest Ohio community to encourage historic preservation-based redevelopment;
  • Successfully developed a workforce development plan for a rural city community improvement corporation in Northwest Ohio;
  • Developing a business incubator feasibility study for Sidney, Ohio;
  • Developing a Downtown Redevelopment District Plan for the Van Wert Area Economic Development Corporation;
  • Developing speculative industrial building projects in western and eastern Ohio communities using the Ohio Rural Industrial Park Loan Program loan and grant program;
  • Successfully attracted residential developer to Northwest Ohio community needing to create new single-family residential housing stock; and
  • Supporting Ohio Appalachian Community Grant Program Round 1 Development Grant application for southern Ohio counseling and workforce development organization.

Federal Budget Earmarks.

  • Successfully advocated for Madison County to gain $765,000 in a federal budget earmark for water and sewer infrastructure funding;
  • Successfully advocated for Forest Park, Ohio to gain $1.2 million in a federal budget earmark for transportation infrastructure;
  • Successfully advocated for the Pickaway Transportation Improvement District to gain a $5 M federal budget earmark grant for transportation infrastructure, a $170,000 Ohio Department of Transportation Planning Grant, and a $500,000 Ohio Department of Transportation TID Grant for transportation improvements in Northern Pickaway County; and
  • Successfully advocated for the Steubenville Grand Theater to gain a $500,000 federal budget earmark.

Government Procurement. 

  • Successfully advocated for a global consulting firm to gain a major state of Ohio procurement contract to implement an aspect of the American Rescue Plan Act; and
  • Successfully advocated for $8 million in additional jail capital funding for an Ohio county from the state of Ohio.

Land Use and Local Economic Development Incentives.

  • Successfully advocated for a zoning variance before the City of Columbus, Ohio for a national developer at a planned industrial site;
  • Successfully advocated for the development of a solar farm in Jackson County, Ohio for a global merchant energy company;
  • Successfully advocated for nearly $3M Ohio Brownfield Redevelopment grant and an expansion of a Pre-1994 Community Reinvestment Act tax abatement for a Columbus, Ohio-based mixed-use development;
  • Successfully advocated for land use, economic development incentive and school compensation agreements for a national industrial developer in Pickaway County, Tipp City, Toledo, and Canal Winchester including gaining a $9.9M Ohio Brownfield Redevelopment Program grant and Community Reinvestment Area tax abatements valued at $61.8M;
  • Successfully advocated for a $1.95M Ohio Site Inventory Program grant as well as an expansion of a Pre-1994 Community Reinvestment Area tax abatement valued at $13.25M for a national industrial developer for a project in Columbus, Ohio and
  • Successfully advocated for a $290,000 Ohio Vibrant Community Program grant for southwest Ohio community for redevelopment of vacant mixed-use property in underserved neighborhood.

Ohio General Assembly. 

  • Successfully advocated for the Ohio General Assembly to fund a $50 M Ohio performing arts funding program from American Rescue Plan Act funding;
  • Successfully advocated for a client’s sale of Ohio historic preservation tax credits and Transformational Mixed Use Development tax credits and a $1 M state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant;
  • Successfully advocated for a regional hospital to gain $500,000 in funding for a state of Ohio Capital Budget project grant;
  • Successfully advocated for a Columbus based performing arts organization to gain a $650,000 state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant;
  • Successfully advocated for Forest Park, Ohio to gain a $150,000 state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant;
  • Successfully advocated for Strongsville, Ohio to gain a $725,000 state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant;
  • Successfully advocated for Piqua, Ohio to gain a $150,000 state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant; and
  • Successfully advocated for regional historic theater to gain a $350,000 state of Ohio Capital Budget Community Project grant.

2022 proved a very successful year for the Montrose Group and we remain optimistic that 2023 will be just as great. Please don’t hesitate to contact Dave Robinson at [email protected] if you have any questions about advocating for PPP or other project financing.

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