Taxes levied by local and state governments have a major impact on a company’s corporate site location decisions. Taxes by the state and local governments are a critical component of measuring the cost of doing business in a region.  Different local and state governments tax businesses differently. What and how much local and state governments […]

Housing is joining workforce development to become a major corporate site location issue.  Regions not growing are failing to develop substantial residential growth.  Finally, rural regions are losing population at an alarming rate and desperately need new residential products to retain existing employers and to keep their young people.  No matter where you are in

Michigan is a major economic power driven by its large population base and global leadership in manufacturing.  Michigan is the 10th largest state in the union driven by the Detroit region whose Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) ranks as the nation’s 14th largest.  Fact Milwaukee Indianapolis Pittsburgh Chicago Detroit Columbus Population 569,330 882,039 300,431 2,696,555 632,464

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

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,

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

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

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,

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

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