Montana Economic Development

“It’s maybe a little ahead of its time. But Roger’s been able to get it started. Word travels pretty fast in those circles.”

“You see this huge house out there, and nobody’s home.”

Most of the Bozeman-area land now hosting subdivisions, box stores and car lots was productive farmland not that many years ago. Between 1997 and 2002, 80,000 acres of Gallatin County farmland was taken out of production, according to the Montana Agricultural Statistics Service.

Credits will leverage more than $30 million in construction investment

Montana is thought to have decent opportunities to develop geothermal power, which uses heat from the earth’s core to generate electricity or heat buildings. The western part of the state in particular is riddled with hot springs, which are one way energy from below the earth finds its way to the surface, where it can be harnessed.

Entrepreneurs in Bear Paw Region now have a secret weapon that increases their chances for success

The traditional models of economic development — basically packages of cheap labor, cheap real estate and tax incentives to mitigate costs — are outdated in today’s global, competitive economic development environment, Loftsgaarden said.

If adopted, this cap would restrict the ability of wireless companies to expand their networks in Montana.

Based on the survey results, the EQC voted to take a closer look at 15 of the 54 recommendations. By looking at the 15 recommendations, council members noted that they were not endorsing those 15 recommendations or dismissing any of the others.

Great Northern Development
Corporation is pleased to announce
that Glasgow, Montana has been
selected as the 2008 SBA Small
Business Community of the Year.