Business Retention and Expansion
Established business is the cornerstone of your community. It provides jobs and tax revenue that are so important to economic stability. We can help keep those businesses viable by securing incentives and infrastructure for potential expansions or identifying potential financial relief for a company struggling to stay in business.
Business Recruitment
Matching your community's assets to industry targets is key to effective business recruitment. We can get you on the prospect lists of target businesses.
Cleco can assist by:
- compiling accurate data on economic trends, real estate values, area suppliers, labor and wages, state and local incentives and work force training programs;
- developing community profiles on demographics, estimated labor force, educational facilities, climate, transportation and quality of life; and
- providing profiles on buildings, sites and ports across our service territory that include specifications, color images and maps that detail the infrastructure available.
Economic Development Education and Training
Parish and community leaders are the driving forces in making their areas more competitive when vying for potential business. Cleco offers hands-on training sessions that arm these decision makers with knowledge of resources and opportunities available to their communities.
Strategic Planning
Communities with the greatest economic development success begin with a strategic plan that helps build the broad community support needed. It is typically designed as a five-year blueprint.
Our team will work with you to create a plan that identifies land suitable for an industrial park. We can help you analyze the strengths and weaknesses of your area and identify industry segments your community's assets are most likely to attract.
For general information, please call Cleco's economic development department at 1-866-488-9545.
