The Strategies

The overall goal of the partnership is to create a growing economy and a thriving local marketplace that will benefit both our businesses and our community.  The five major development strategies employed to reach this goal are: 

Business Attraction - Marketing and advertising to attract new businesses to Muskingum County.

Retention and Expansion - Serving existing businesses in order to support retention and expansion of local firms and facilities.

Small Business Development - Encouraging the creation, survival and growth of small enterprises.

Downtown Revitalization - Business attraction and physical redevelopment to support and complement broader economic development efforts.

Infrastructure Development  - Site, building and public infrastructure improvements.

As you can see, each of these strategies and the activities it represents is vitally important to economic development in our community.  MGP turns these good ideas into action that leads to actual business growth by funding important development projects and programs implemented by the Chamber, Port Authority, City of Zanesville and County of Muskingum. 

For more detail on MGP's development strategies visit the Action Plan Section of this web site.