Five million Americans have simply left the workforce since COVID-19. That is the size of the state of Alabama and a bigger group of people than the population of every American city except for New York City. In fact, In 2021, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), over 47 million Americans voluntarily quit their […]
Montrose Group, LLC is proud of our client Accenture who produced The Blueprint for Ohio’s Economic Future which is a comprehensive report that focuses on the key areas for economic growth and improvement for the state of Ohio. Based on the findings and recommendations in the Blueprint, the Ohio Chamber will leverage the report to provide […]
The re-election of Governor Mike Dewine by a huge margin and the addition of new Republican seats to the Ohio Senate and Ohio House of Representatives for the upcoming 135th Ohio General Assembly cements Republican leadership for at least two if not four more years. The next big thing coming to the Ohio Statehouse is […]
The decision of the Ohio General Assembly to place a political party label on candidates for the Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio Court of Appeals had a direct impact on the success or failure of candidates for judicial office in Ohio. This conclusion is based upon on the results of the election of judges at […]
The 2022 Ohio General Election saw Republicans cement the state as a GOP stronghold. While Democrats were able to limit electoral loses at both the congressional and state legislature level including in Michigan and Pennsylvania, Ohio’s GOP made a clean sweep of all the Ohio Statewide offices including the highly contested U.S. Senate race and […]
Montrose Group is a national economic development and public policy consulting company that provides corporate site location, economic development planning and lobbying services. The Montrose Group in 2022 is providing a series of free economic development and public policy professional development events. Please join the Montrose Group for a free webinar on Friday, November 4, […]
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 […]