Description: Economic Development Credit Analysis. September 15 - 17, 2021 This hands-on course presents business financing tools and available private financing options, as well as how the public sector can complement bank financing. You will learn how to stimulate private sector investment that results in the creation of permanent, private sector jobs and increased productivity. Course…
Description: Business Retention and Expansion. September 30 - October 1, 2021 This interactive course presents the core components of a BRE program and why the concerns of local businesses need to be actively addressed. By building an understanding of business visitation techniques and survey methods, practitioners will be able to clearly gauge their community's business climate.…
Description: IEDC 2021 Annual Conference, Oct 3-6,2021 It’s been nothing short of a transformation for traditionally agrarian Tennessee. For decades, the state relied on the cash crops of agriculture. But the winds of change blew through fields and farmlands…infusing new, more diverse economic realities that energized the state… and propelled cultural tourism, transportation-fueled industry and…
Description: Neighborhood Development Strategies. November 2 - 3, 2021 This practitioner-driven course uses the case study method to complement current neighborhood development theory. Participants will learn how to identify the major neighborhood actors, their objectives, and strategies for redevelopment, in addition to understanding the process for creating a strategic economic development plan to meet the neighborhood…
Description: Economic Development Academy. November 2 - 5, 2021 The Economic Development Academy (EDA) meets the certification requirements for the Neighborhood Development Strategies and Real Estate Development and Reuse courses, as well as the CEcD Exam Essentials Workshop. Courses can be taken separately by going to the individual course webpages to register. 5:30 pm – 6:30…
Description: Real Estate Development and Reuse. November 4 - 5, 2021 This course clearly articulates the eight stage process for real estate development and reuse. Specifically, course participants will learn the fundamentals of market and site analysis, financial feasibility, and what political considerations are required to move a development project from conception to realization. Additionally, this…