About the Organization:
REDDI's Mission Statement: To be a catalyst for urban economic development, including
agriculture economic development, by fostering redevelopment strategies and projects that
stimulate economic growth in urban and rural distressed communities through collaboration,
facilitation, and building of alliances among key stakeholders of the Regional Economic
Development District.
The newly formed district was organized in October 2001 as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation
and is directed by a board of directors that embody locally elected officials from the
cities/urban centers which comprise the eight counties, along with economic developers, and
private citizens that represent the business, education, labor, and minority communities. REDDI
is designed to create a value-added economic development vehicle whose charge is to facilitate
the development of urban technology/industrial business parks, technology and small business
incubators, with a general focus on brownfield redevelopment within the eight cities/counties
region.
REDDI and Urban Development: REDDI has focused its energy on distressed places of the
urban centers. Many potential projects in the region are within the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania's Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZ), Enterprise Zones, and redevelopment areas
of the municipalities.
The REDDI region is a manufacturing, service, and agriculture based economy. While the
manufacturing cluster as a whole is decreasing in numbers, the quality of the remaining
manufacturing jobs have maintained, for the most part, family-sustaining wage components.
Thus, identifying the growth clusters and preparing a sound retention program to include
redevelopment of smart facilities and space, provisions of business assistance and a quality
workforce delivery system will contribute to maintaining and growing those key industry
clusters in South-Central PA.
REDDI and Rural Development: REDDI also focuses on linking agriculture with tradition
economic development; a relationship that has not been previously established. This agriculture
initiative has resulted in the creation of the Agriculture Economic Development Alliance and
created such projects as those associated with renewable energy and has strengthened funding
resources for the agriculture community.
REDDI's Mission Statement: To be a catalyst for urban economic development, including
agriculture economic development, by fostering redevelopment strategies and projects that
stimulate economic growth in urban and rural distressed communities through collaboration,
facilitation, and building of alliances among key stakeholders of the Regional Economic
Development District.
The newly formed district was organized in October 2001 as a 501(c)(4) nonprofit corporation
and is directed by a board of directors that embody locally elected officials from the
cities/urban centers which comprise the eight counties, along with economic developers, and
private citizens that represent the business, education, labor, and minority communities. REDDI
is designed to create a value-added economic development vehicle whose charge is to facilitate
the development of urban technology/industrial business parks, technology and small business
incubators, with a general focus on brownfield redevelopment within the eight cities/counties
region.
REDDI and Urban Development: REDDI has focused its energy on distressed places of the
urban centers. Many potential projects in the region are within the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania's Keystone Opportunity Zones (KOZ), Enterprise Zones, and redevelopment areas
of the municipalities.
The REDDI region is a manufacturing, service, and agriculture based economy. While the
manufacturing cluster as a whole is decreasing in numbers, the quality of the remaining
manufacturing jobs have maintained, for the most part, family-sustaining wage components.
Thus, identifying the growth clusters and preparing a sound retention program to include
redevelopment of smart facilities and space, provisions of business assistance and a quality
workforce delivery system will contribute to maintaining and growing those key industry
clusters in South-Central PA.
REDDI and Rural Development: REDDI also focuses on linking agriculture with tradition
economic development; a relationship that has not been previously established. This agriculture
initiative has resulted in the creation of the Agriculture Economic Development Alliance and
created such projects as those associated with renewable energy and has strengthened funding
resources for the agriculture community.
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