Approach

For each engagement, Langley Economics creates a tailored team of professionals with experience in community and economic development in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Langley Economics team members provide direct executive and senior management experience in organizational development, program design and management, public policy, advocacy, and communications.  And, with this methodology, we have a long track record of delivering success through past involvement in activities such as: 

  Internet Coast Technology Initiative, State of Florida
  Translation of an existing land use plan into statewide and regional economic development strategies, with particular attention to needed public policy changes and regional advocacy to increase prospects with People & Land, a coalition of regional organizations and leaders in Michigan
  Linkage of economic development and workforce development structure and strategy on a statewide basis in both Florida and Colorado
  Implementation of education technologies for the Disney/SBA National Entrepreneurial Center, Orlando, Florida
  Over 1000 company expansions or new facilities in the Pittsburgh and Minneapolis Saint Paul  regions, facilitating the creation of over 70,000 new direct jobs and billions of dollars in new capital investment.
  More than 115 new operations, expansions or local acquisitions by foreign-owned businesses and significant increases in exports from the Pittsburgh region in a three year period
  Business tax reforms in excess of $1.0 billion
  $250 million in water quality and sewer improvements, leveraging $3 billion in federal funding for the ten counties of southwestern Pennsylvania
  $65 million in federal funding for maintenance and improvements to the locks and dams of the Port of Pittsburgh
  Organization of  major air service customers in both the Minneapolis Saint Paul and Pittsburgh regions to work in partnership with government to attract and support new airlines (Southwest, Jet Blue, Delta international service to Paris, Seoul, and Mexico City, and Aer Lingus direst service to Dublin) The Regional Air Services Partnership model is a Gold Standard for supporting regional economies with air service.
  Retention of the U.S. Air Force Reserve 911th Airlift Wing, along with its 1,700 jobs and $60 million annual economic impact, and efforts to create a prototype national Joint Readiness Center in the Pittsburgh region.

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