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The Kentucky economic development
directory below (scroll down)
links to the websites and contacts for many economic development organizations
in Kentucky and
related content such as Area Profiles and Area Surveys as
executive summaries about business locations. |
Contact us for project assistance, or to update our directory listing
for an area. We provide personal introductory referrals to our
contacts and other assistance according to the investment project interests
of the corporate executives and business advisors we serve. |
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Area Profiles and Area
Surveys are executive summary presentations about business locations.
These may include maps, links to commercial real estate listings of
available industrial and office sites and buildings, investment project
news, information about existing businesses in the area, labor market
information, and investment incentives. Such content makes it easy to
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| Organization |
Scope |
Contacts
GDI : Bruce |
Website and other resources
Project announcements |
Survey |
Profile |
| Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development |
State 40601 |
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www.thinkkentucky.com |
No |
No |
| State of Kentucky -
official government website for all services, not just economic development |
State 40601 |
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www.kentucky.gov |
No |
No |
| Kentucky Council of Area
Development Districts - network of county economic development districts |
State 40601 |
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www.kycadd.org |
No |
No |
| Kentucky Chamber of
Commerce |
Chamber |
502-695-4700 |
www.kychamber.com
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No |
No |
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40xxx |
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| Bullitt County Economic Development
Authority |
County 40165 |
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www.bullittcounty.org |
No |
No |
| Greater Louisville Inc. |
Metro 40202 |
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www.GreaterLouisville.com |
No |
No |
| Jeffersontown Economic Development
Authority |
Local 40299 |
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www.jeffersontownky.com |
No |
No |
| Morehead - Rowan County
Economic Development Corp |
County 40351 |
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old website link obsolete |
No |
No |
| Winchester & Clark County
Ind. Authority |
County 40391 |
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www.winchesterky.com |
No |
No |
| East Kentucky Power |
Utility 40391 |
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www.ekpc.com
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No |
No |
| LG&E Energy - now
owned by German utility e-On |
Utility 40507 |
Lisa Payne |
www.site-selection.com
www.eon-us.com - contacts
www.lgeenergy.com
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No |
No |
| Capital Community Economic Development
Ind., Frankfort |
City 40601 |
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www.frankfortky.org |
No |
No |
| Corbin Economic
Development Agency, Corbin KY |
Local 40701 |
606-528-6390 |
www.corbinky.org
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No |
No |
| Kentucky Highlands
Investment Corp, London KY |
Region 40743 |
606-864-5175 |
www.khic.org
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No |
No |
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41xxx |
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| Madison E-Zone - business
accelerator in Covington KY for mentoring support of technology start-ups -
as the Innovation and Commercialization Center (ICC) for Northern Kentucky |
Local 41011 |
859-292-8444 |
www.madisone-zone.com
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No |
No |
| Northern Kentucky/ Cincinnati
- Northern Kentucky Tri-ED, Covington KY area - serves Boone, Kenton and
Campbell Counties |
Region 41017 |
859-344-0040 |
www.NorthernKentuckyUSA.com |
No |
No |
| Northern Kentucky Area
Development District - multi county area, in Florence KY - serves Boone,
Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, and Pendleton counties |
Region 41042 |
606-283-1885 |
www.nkadd.org |
No |
No |
| Ashland Alliance - Chamber
of Commerce, Regional Development Partnership - City of Ashland, Boyd and
Greenup Counties |
Chamber 41105 |
606-324-5111 |
www.ashlandallliance.com |
No |
No |
| City of Ashland Economic
Development |
City 41105 |
606-327-2005 |
www.ashlandky.org
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No |
No |
| FIVCO Area Development
District - Boyd, Carter, Elliott, Greenup and Lawrence counties |
Region 41129 |
606-739-5191 |
www.fivco.org |
No |
No |
| EastPark - Northeast
Kentucky Regional Industrial Park Authority, in Russell KY |
Region 41169 |
606-833-1997 |
www.kyeastpark.com
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No |
No |
| Pike County Chamber of
Commerce, Pikeville KY |
Chamber 41501 |
606-432-5504 |
www.pikecountychamber.org |
No |
No |
| East Kentucky Corporation,
Hazard KY |
Region 41702 |
Tom Jones
606-439-0291 |
www.eastkentucky.com
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No |
No |
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| Greater Paducah Economic
Development - McCracken County |
County 42002 |
Wayne Sterling
George Harben
270-575-6633 |
www.gpedc.com |
No |
No |
| Caldwell Lyon Partnership,
Eddyville KY |
Local 42038 |
Jim Moore
270-388-6483 |
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Interview |
No |
| West Kentucky Corp. - was
disbanded - no new regional organization identified for this area as of Nov 2005, so refer to local
or state-level contacts for this region of the state |
Region 42071 |
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website discontinued |
No |
No |
| South Central Kentucky -
Bowling Green |
Region 42102 |
270-781-3200 |
www.southcentralky.com |
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| Bowling Green Area Chamber |
City 42104 |
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www.bgchamber.com |
No |
No |
| Glasgow - Barren County
Chamber of Commerce |
County 42141 |
270-651-3161 |
www.glasgowbarrenchamber.com |
No |
No |
| Glasgow/Barren County
Industrial Development Economic Authority - Glasgow KY |
County 42142 |
270-651-6314 |
www.glasgowbarrenidea.com |
No |
No |
| South Kentucky Industrial Development
Assn, Hopkinsville KY |
Region 42241 |
Sherman Chaudoin
270-885-5392 |
www.skida.org
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No |
No |
| Henderson Economic Development Council |
Local 42419 |
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www.hendersonedc.com |
No |
No |
| Southern Kentucky Economic Development Corp.
Somerset |
Region 42502 |
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www.southernkentucky.com |
No |
No |
| Somerset - Pulaski County
Development Foundation |
County 42502 |
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www.spcdf.com
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No |
No |
| Elizabethtown - Hardin
County Industrial Foundation |
County 42701 |
"Rick" Games
270-737-0300
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www.eifky.org
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No |
No |
| Elizabethtown - Hardin
County Chamber of Commerce |
Chamber 42701 |
270-765-4334 |
www.etownchamber.org
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No |
No |
| Lincoln Trail Area
Development District - Elizabethtown KY |
Planning 42701 |
270-769-2393 |
www.ltadd.org |
No |
No |
Explanation of column
headings above
- Organizations are generally sorted in
postal code order so that locations which are geographically close to each
other will usually (not always) be grouped together. This is a
selective directory, even though the state directory is more comprehensive
than the very selective one we will maintain at the regional level to
highlight the organizations which support our work or are found to be of
frequent interest for the convenience of the executives and business
advisors we serve.
- Scope : is the area served by the
organization, and postal code. We may include thumbnail maps which
expand to show information about participating areas, or link directly to
good maps or GIS research tools on the organization's website.
- Contacts : relationship leader at GDI
Solutions for maintaining information about contacts in this area.
If there is a working relationship through our various GUIDE services, we
also list the key organization contact, phone, and optional e-mail.
- Website and other resources : Aside from
the main website link, we may include other direct links to highlight
special features of expected interest to executives, especially if they
might not be readily noticed by just visiting the website. A good
example of this is when relevant content is actually maintained somewhere
else, such as a regional website rather than the local one, so that one
would otherwise need to know to follow the available links between the
websites.
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The default
for all other columns is "No" unless the organization supports our work.
- Survey : areas which have responded to our
GUIDE Network Survey, with a link to their response for convenience if
published (optional) and highlighted at the top. This is often
useful as an executive summary at the "long list" stage of location
selection.
- Profile : participates in our GUIDE Area
Profile service (also highlighted at the top of the page). This
involves a closer working relationship to maintain more timely and
detailed knowledge of the area throughout the year, and also involves a
more detailed executive summary on the website, with many relevant links.
If there are significant incentives in the area, we may also link to a
GUIDE Incentives Profile.
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All area representatives are encouraged to reply to the free
GUIDE Network
Survey, which consists of very basic questions to help maintain
timely knowledge about many areas for referral purposes. Area
representatives : see
how to
participate. Current service pricing
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special offers.
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Executive Survey, which helps us to continuously improve.
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The presence, absence,
or position of any organization on these lists,
or their position on the lists, does not imply any endorsement or opinion about their services,
nor by them about our own. The selections are simply intended to be helpful to executives who may be
unaware of such contacts, or how to reach their websites quickly.
Please contact us directly for relevant introductions or any additional
contacts, market knowledge, and research which we don't publish. |
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The
directory above links to the
websites of many
Kentucky economic development organizations
(EDO) and provides contacts and Area Profiles, Surveys, or other available
content about KY as a "long list" extension of our contacts directory for the
KY and larger
Great
Lakes region,
following the same structure as our
global contact directories.
These area representatives
would typically include
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a state department of
commerce or industry or a provincial government office
- greater
metro city or county area chamber of commerce
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county economic
development agency
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industrial development
corporation or council - IDC
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alliance for business
development, community development
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investment promotion
agency - IPA
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industry cluster development initiatives, business
incubators, technology parks
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regional or global professional B2B networking
organizations, business partnering, joint venture development, or strategic
business alliance services
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trade and investment
promotion offices
Global directory: see
other regional economic development or professional contacts
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Despite the
wide variety of names for such economic development organizations, and
variances in the scope of their services, the ones we list are generally
actively involved in efforts to attract, expand, and retain business
investment projects in their areas (offices, factories, etc.), including the
attraction of foreign direct investment projects (FDI). This typically
includes support services, financial incentives, and information for
corporate site selection decisions as well as local business retention and
expansion services.
We provide personal
introductory referrals to such contacts and other assistance according to
the direct investment project interests of the corporate executives and
business advisors we
serve.
Contact us for project assistance,
or to update our directory listing for an area.
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We develop and maintain
working relationships among participating area representatives - economic
development organizations - and professional service providers as well as
senior corporate executives who are responsible for the planning of major
projects such as new, relocated, expanded or consolidated offices,
factories, distribution centers or other operations. |
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e-mail |
Phone |
Fax |
| Bruce Donnelly |
bruce@gdi-solutions.com |
847-304-4655 |
847-304-5375 |
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