by AJ Jessup | Feb 26, 2025 | Blog
Retail leakage, for our purposes, is the gap between the money spent by local consumers and the revenue generated by local businesses, often due to residents shopping in neighboring areas. Significant retail leakage in an area points to opportunities for new and...
by Bob Jessup | Feb 18, 2025 | Blog
“Employers can no longer afford to overlook America’s escalating child care crisis,” according to a January article in Site Selection magazine. A report from the NC Chamber Foundation indicates that thousands of North Carolinians are leaving the workforce, forgoing...
by Bob Jessup | Feb 12, 2025 | Blog
We’ve updated the original blog post to reflect that Commerce and the EDP and published their program description and model documents. For years people have advocated for North Carolina to establish a program to give local governments another tool to help businesses...
