Rome-Floyd County, a northwestern Georgia community of about 94,000
people, is a one-county metropolitan area which has retained a large
manufacturing base, as well as a growing Health Care sector, to employ
its local workforce. In the past few years, it has benefited from
solid population and job growth to sustain its local economic health.
Local leaders are able to attribute much of the community’s
economic development successes to the implementation of the Rome-Floyd
County 20/20 plan first developed in 1998, and then updated in 2003.
The implementation of the Rome-Floyd County 20/20 plan is a unified
effort of the City of Rome, Floyd County, and the Greater Rome Chamber
of Commerce for local economic development.
Late in 2006, the Greater Rome Chamber of Commerce asked Market
Street Services, the Atlanta-based firm that worked with the community to
develop and then update the 20/20 plan, to revisit the Rome-Floyd
County community to create a new strategy, beginning this time from
a “blank slate.” The blank slate approach will allow
the Chamber, City, and County to create a new strategy based on a
comprehensive, honest assessment of where Rome-Floyd County stands
today.
The process builds from an understanding of Rome-Floyd County’s
current realities, to an assessment of its most promising local growth
sectors, to a strategy to best achieve results and then an implementation
plan to realize them.
At the end of this process, the Greater Rome Chamber, the City of
Rome, and Floyd County will have a new strategy focused on the community’s
most pressing needs and opportunities for the year 2007 forward,
and the action steps and implementation guidelines necessary to achieve
success.
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