Economic Development Strategies

Economic developers seeking to attract or retain jobs and investment benefit from our understanding of the location decision making process and our experience designing and implementing targeted industry initiatives, incentives benchmarking and program design. For the past four years BLS has sponsored the annual CoreNet Global Economic Development Leadership Awards.

case studies

» PRIDCO

BLS was retained by the Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company (PRIDCO) to assess their existing incentives statutes...read more

» Somerset County Business Partnership

The Somerset County Business Partnership (SCBP) initially retained BLS to survey the County’s life sciences industry...read more

» Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance (HREDA)

On behalf of the HREDA, BLS and Wadley Donovan Gutshaw Consulting conducted an assessment of the Tidewater region’s location assets...read more

» The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

BLS was asked to benchmark Governor Rendell’s new economic development stimulus package...read more