Menu-of-services-program-launched :: Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce

You may have heard some buzz around the community about the Chamber's new menu of services program that is part of our revised South Central Kentucky Marketing Plan. Today the program was launched during a news conference at the Chamber with speakers from Butler, Edmonson, Logan and Warren Counties participating.

Judge N.E. Reed from Edmonson County summed up the expectations of the program best by saying, "We're moving the Golden Triangle down to South Central Kentucky, and it's going to stretch from Metcalfe to Logan Counties."

The menu of services program was created to deepen the marketing of South Central Kentucky to site selection professionals and industries, informing their decisions to locate business here in the region. While this is the primary goal of the program, it will also

Provide excellent, cost-effective economic development services to the surrounding counties that do not have full-time economic development professionals of their own.

Deepen the Chamber’s ability to increase the competitiveness of the area counties, involving all organizations and officials in economic development efforts in the region.

Drive the economic development success of the entire South Central Kentucky region with a commitment to industry attraction, as well as to assist in current industries’ retention and expansion plans.

To accomplish these goals, the Chamber developed an a la carte menu of its economic development services, which Chamber staff has begun to present to the surrounding counties. The services include

Economic development administration
Business attraction
Business retention and expansion
Strategic planning
Product development

The counties and organizations are able to select specific services from the menu—whether all or just a few—to add to their economic development efforts. To date, Butler and Edmonson Counties have agreed to services offered in the program, with Allen and Logan Counties taking advantage of the enhanced marketing package. Our Chamber staff will continue to meet with the other counties and their industrial development organizations through the next several months.

Read the Chamber's press release.

A special thanks goes out to all who attended this event, and to those who participated in the presentation: Doug Gorman, 2008 Chamber Board of Directors chairman; Dan Preston, Chamber vice president, economic development; Warren County Judge Executive Michael Buchanon; Judge Reed; Morgantown Mayor Eva Hawes; Butler County Judge Executive David Fields; Tom Harned, Logan LEAD executive director; and Logan County Judge Executive Logan Chick.

Read the article about the menu of services in Tuesday's Daily News.

Labels: Economic Development