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Community and Economic Development
Gaining insight to your community can bring growth and new opportunities
Understanding your community's roots and unique qualities can bring revenue and tourism tailored to your cultural identity.
We partner with practitioners and USF faculty to assess your community and deliver quality strategy and solutions.
"How can we use our uniqueness to develop our economy?"
The Hardee County Industrial Development Authority (IDA) needed a framework and plan to diversify the county鈥檚 economic base. We assisted the IDA by developing immediate strategies and projects that complemented its roots in agriculture and phosphate.
We collected objective data, identified economic opportunities, developed implementation strategies and monitored successes. As a result, the IDA better understood its natural- and business-centered economic base and focused on opportunities that could spur economic growth.
The project's success led to further strategy development, including identifying opportunities in economic development in key areas and evaluating the IDA's economic impact.