Placemaking: Create livable, attractive, and connected communities where people want to live, work, visit, and invest.
Tradeable Sectors: Support, grow, and diversify the North Country’s major industries to serve domestic and global markets.
Innovation: Foster a culture of entrepreneurship and innovation that grows and attracts entrepreneurs and companies seeking to market emerging technologies and solutions by creating synergies between research, development, and commercialization.
Workforce: Develop a resilient and diversified workforce through attraction, training, and retention efforts to meet the needs of our employers, our workers, and their families.
Housing: Build a regional ecosystem to support owner occupied and rental housing development and rehabilitation for the region’s workforce in the 80% - 200% Area Median Income (AMI) range to create healthy, sustainable, and diverse communities to support the region’s businesses and employers.