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Younger Entrepreneurs Drive Record SBA “Blue Collar” Business Acquisition Loans to Hedge Against Artificial Intelligence
In 2025, SBA-backed loans for business acquisitions reached $8.17 billion, fueled by millennials buying blue collar firms. Buyers often evaluate hundreds of businesses before closing a deal, highlighting the complexity of these transactions.
In Missoula, Montana, a Museum Grows from Timber and Memory
Designed by Leers Weinzapfel Associates, the National Museum of Forest Service History’s new hub transforms donated materials and expressive timber forms into a learning environment.
Bearpaw Development Corporation in Havre, Montana – Community Investment Is Business Attraction
Havre is currently experiencing a downtown renaissance, fueled in part by strategic investments made possible through programs administered by Commerce. These efforts stemmed from the development of a well-timed downtown master plan adopted by the Havre City Council that included components designed to make its downtown business district a more inviting place to live, visit, build a business and invest.
Your School Districts are Unappreciated Economic Development Engines – Just ask Winifred, Montana
School districts play are engines of economic development. Beyond education, they drive jobs, infrastructure, and community resilience, challenging the common view of districts as mere cost centers.
Battery Swapping Is Finally Coming To The USA, Starting With Two Wheels
Eventually conductive charging could replace both static charging as well as battery swapping.
Reimagine Wellness at the Gate of Your Flight at the Airport with Sky Cycle.
Then we launched at the Missoula International Airport. Travelers walked up, scanned the QR code, and rode. Nobody wondered why it was there. A few people wandering by said “what is this”, with genuine curiosity, and the second they got it…they got it completely.
GFDA Top Ten for 7/5/26
Janicki is hosting a Community Forum at 5:30 PM on Thursday, (7/9) in Heritage Hall at Great Falls College MSU. Please RSVP here so we have enough seats.
Are you preparing for the new age of quantum computing and “Q-day”?
A surge of funding and federal action is giving the once-futuristic technology a more immediate role in everything from business to cybersecurity.
Great Falls, Montana Set for Economic Boom with Major Investments and GFDA Leadership
“We just didn’t see a replacement for that economic growth through the ’80s and ’90s,” said Jolene Schalper, executive vice president of the Great Falls Development Alliance. “But we reformulated how we approached our community growth then. We took time in the early 2000s to say, as a community, ‘We need to hone in on the key elements here.’”
MEP Indicator: What’s Moving Missoula Forward
The Missoula Economic Partnership expands prosperity and improves quality of life by engaging in strategic business development, creating pathways for people to realize their potential, and fostering our culture of diversity and innovation.



