Click HERE for a report describing the economic impact of IDA projects (.pdf file, Adobe Acrobat required.)
Click HERE for an article that ranked Gadsden #11 among small metro areas in the US for new business attraction.
Site Selection magazine named the IDA as one of the top development groups
in the U.S.
Business
Facilities magazine chose the IDA as a recipient of its Economic
Development Achievement Award of Special Merit.
Southern Business and Development magazine placed Gadsden
on its “hot
markets” list due to the impact of IDA projects.
Economic Development Tomorrow cited the IDA as a model of professional
practice.
IDA program successes constitute a chapter in Plant
Closures and Community Recovery.
Office innovations at the IDA comprise a case study in Computer
Applications in Economic Development.
Our business recruitment techniques were highlighted
in Marketing Cities in the 1980’s and Beyond.
The global management consulting firm Arthur D. Little, Inc. selected
our existing industry assistance program as one of the best development
projects in the nation.
An economic research report from the University of Alabama
at Huntsville concluded that Gadsden was the “leading turnaround area” in
the state since the mid-1980s.
The new tax revenues generated by IDA projects exceed the amount of tax
funds allocated to our budget by a wide margin. Some of companies with
which we have worked appear below.
