Butte to market Uptown as Opportunity Zone to spur economy

Getting economic development going in a place like Uptown Butte is a simple formula.

“You have investors, you have projects and you just need to be able to get them together,” said Butte Local Development Corporation Director Joe Willauer.

Some believe the solution is the federally created incentive called an Opportunity Zone, which Uptown Butte has been recently designated. Essentially, it works by people with money investing in a zone, and those with a business idea could receive financing from those investments.