Infrastructure

Infrastructure At a Landlocked Port, Water is Vital Grant County, Washington, is not where you would expect to find a port. Best known as the nation’s most prodigious potato-producing area, it is a landlocked county covered in dry grassland more than 150 miles from the Pacific Ocean. December 2020
Infrastructure Decades of Growth and Success: EDA and the New Mexico Sandia Science and Technology Park The Sandia Science and Technology Park (SS&TP) opened its doors in 1998, transforming open desert foothills in southern Albuquerque, New Mexico, into an expansive industrial park focused on high-tech innovation and job growth. December 2020
Infrastructure Native Village of Napaimute Sets Sail to Greater Prosperity with EDA Grant For members of the Native Village of Napaimute — an Alaska Native tribe in Western Alaska — the forests of the Yukon–Kuskokwim Delta are not only the heart and hearth of their ancestral home, they are also an important contemporary fixture of the village’s economy. In fact, Napaimute, in the Yup’ik language, literally means “forest people.” November 2020
Infrastructure EDA’s Partnership with the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation Drives Economic Growth in Philadelphia The Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) is Philadelphia’s public-private economic development corporation. March 2020
Infrastructure Treasure Valley Community College in Oregon Breaks Ground on New Career and Technical Education Facility Funded by EDA On January 23, 2020, Treasure Valley Community College (TVCC) broke ground on their new Vo-Tech facility in Ontario, Oregon. The facility is being established using funds invested by EDA. January 2020
Infrastructure EDA Investments Help Turn Love of Laughter into a Top National Museum A $1.64 million EDA Public Works (PDF) program investment made in 2016 in the National Comedy Center of Jamestown, New York, helped turn the facility into a top national museum by supporting the construction and installation of high-technology attraction equipment in the newly renovated center. October 2019
Infrastructure Transformation of Former Texas Air Force Base Now Has Local Economy Soaring Brooks City-Base, located on San Antonio’s Southside just 10 minutes from downtown, has rapidly transformed from a former Air Force Base to a principal economic development entity. May 2019
Infrastructure Lubbock Rail Port Infrastructure Expansion Tracks in New Growth for the Region EDA invested $1.5 million in Lubbock Economic Development Alliance, Inc., (LEDA) of Lubbock, Texas, in 2009 to develop physical infrastructure needed to help the region attract additional private investment. April 2019
Infrastructure, Manufacturing Missouri’s Boonslick Regional Planning Commission Brings Federal, State and Local Partners Together to Improve Infrastructure, Bring Manufacturing Jobs to Region Through effective economic development collaboration with federal, state and local partners, the Boonslick Regional Planning Commission (BRPC) successfully enhanced local water, rail and road infrastructure to bring CertainTeed Corporation’s new, state of the art asphalt roofing shingle manufacturing and distribution center to Jonesburg, Missouri. June 2018
Infrastructure, Manufacturing EDA Investments in America’s Central Port Connect Region with Nationwide Freight Network Since 2002, EDA has made three investments, totaling nearly $5.3 million, to make significant infrastructure improvements needed to support the development of America’s Central Port in Granite City, Illinois. Included were improvements made to the rail line that serves the facility. February 2018