Montana Economic Development

The gathering here was one in a series of public talks with local officials in western Montana.

Projects Located in Billings, Bozeman, Butte, Hamilton, Missoula

The purpose of this hotline is to give small business owners a single phone number they can call with business related questions.

“I am pleased to make this announcement, and to recognize Deanna Johnson for extraordinary contributions to the work of the Montana SBDC and small business in Montana,” said Ann Desch, State Director.

Schweitzer is Montana’s premier salesman. Never a desk jockey who enjoys refereeing bureaucratic turf wars, Schweitzer instead crisscrosses the country to lure energy and other businesses here.

MAEDC Sponsors Wood Products Initiative, Walks for AHA, Sponsors NewWest Conference

There has been a lot of talk about affordable housing in the Flathead Valley but little action.
Until now.

Plan by Plum Creek to develop 975 homes and two private resorts, some 2,000 housing units, on what once was working forest is the biggest residential project in the state’s history.

"More new jobs in the Flathead," said Governor Schweitzer. "These funds will create good paying jobs, new educational opportunities, and a skilled workforce for Montana businesses."

"We’ll create jobs for people who are chemists, for soil scientists and people who are actually driving the big loaders and big trucks and moving equipment around. We’ll create more jobs during the next 10 years, cleaning up the mining mistakes of the past than we would have in some of the mining industries. So it’s good for Montana’s economy. It’s good for Montana’s fisheries. It’s good for Montana’s forests," Schweitzer said.