Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Louisville Corridor Can Capitalize on State Site Development Programs

Preparing a site for development is a critical step to retaining or growing jobs and making a capital investment. Montrose Group’s focus is to create a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) that makes a site attractive for job creation and capital investment while providing a pipeline of tax revenues and other funding for local and state government and […]

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Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Louisville Corridor Compare Well from a Cost of Doing Business Standpoint

A company’s costs of real estate, construction, energy, and taxes are typically the major cost drivers at a site other than its workforce. Real estate costs vary depending on decisions about whether the company wants to buy or rent real estate and is dictated by regional market issues such as available land, market regulation, vacancies,

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Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Louisville Wage Rates for Production Workers and Other High-Ranking Clusters

A region’s workforce is a critical measure of its economic success. An examination of a community’s workforce has three distinct components: the size, unemployment rate, and education level of the workforce; the occupation and earnings of the workforce; and the commuting patterns of the workforce. The data collected for this analysis is the 2021 annual

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Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Louisville MSA Skilled Workforce Creates a Competitive Advantage

The retirement of the Baby Boom generation and the reduction of the Civilian Labor Participation Rate triggered by Covid 19 created a skilled workforce crisis throughout the United States.  In many regions, there are more open jobs than there are unemployed people.  Understanding workforce industry strengths is another critical method to measuring a region’s workforce

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Demographics Drive the Success of the Cincinnati-Indianapolis and Louisville Corridor

How a site compares to other sites from a demographic standpoint can be a critical factor in a corporate site location decision. Demographics measure the impact of the population on any given issue.  For over two hundred years, the impact of population growth on economic development has been a hot topic.  In 1798, Thomas Malthus,

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Regional Economic Growth of Cincinnati-Indianapolis-Louisville Corridor is Strong

Overall macroeconomic performance of a region is a critical measure for companies considering a corporate site location project. Generally, companies seek out growing markets that attract industry and talent.  Key measures of regional economic performance will include the measures noted in the table below. Gross domestic product (GDP), the featured measure of U.S. output, is

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Montrose Group Adds Wade Williams to Grow in Southwest Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana

The Montrose Group, a national corporate site location, economic development consulting, and lobbying firm, today announced that senior economic development advisor and corporate site location consultant Wade Williams is joining the Montrose Group to launch an office in the Cincinnati marketplace that will serve Southwest Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky.  “Wade Williams will provide economic development

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