PARTNER RESOURCES
Resources
powering economic development
Resources
powering economic development
Economic development is a team sport. VEDP’s extensive partner resources support our regional and local partners in Virginia. The tools, assets, documents, and programs in this section are intended to support economic development efforts and enhance the economic competitiveness of the Commonwealth.
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And buildings resources
Available quality sites and buildings are critical for site selection. Here, you can manage your site content on the Commonwealth’s sites and buildings database, VirginiaScan, and access resources to improve your community’s available site inventory.
iVS
iVS is a password-protected tool which provides the ability to manage and retrieve data about Virginia’s sites, buildings, localities, and regions.
Sites and Buildings Data Sheets
These documents are a collection of information displayed in VEDP’s sites & buildings search tool.
Virginia Business Ready Sites Program
The Virginia Business Ready Sites Program promotes characterization and development of industrial and commercial sites.
Virginia Brownfields Fund
The Virginia Brownfields Restoration and Economic Redevelopment Assistance Fund provides either grants or loans to local governments to promote the restoration and redevelopment of brownfield sites.
Rights-of-Way Program Certification
The Rights-of-Way Certification Program may allow the utility to acquire rights-of-way for the ordinary extension of utility facilities in the normal course of business to one or more qualified economic development sites and to recover costs incurred, subject to approval by the State Corporation Commission (SCC).
Electric Infrastructure Program
The Electric Infrastructure Program allows electric utilities to recover costs incurred to construct, operate, and maintain transmission lines and associated substations installed to provide service to a business park when found eligible for a rate adjustment approved by the State Corporation Commission (SCC).
Reports, databases, and directories
Reports, databases, and directories
VEDP tracks and maintains multiple data sets about the Commonwealth’s economic development. The resources in this section provide partners with information to support their state, regional, and local economic development efforts.
Virginia Localities Database
This tool enables Virginia’s localities to compare themselves with other communities in the Commonwealth, including population, employment, education, and income.
Announcements and Closings Database
These databases provide information about business direct investment and new jobs, along with reductions and business closings in Virginia.
GIS Open Data Portal
This portal provides high-quality spatial data and data visualization products.
International Company Directory
This directory allows users to search for verified, internationally owned company locations in Virginia based on country of origin, Virginia location, name, or business description. It includes traded-sector companies only.
Virginia Office of Education Economics
The Virginia Office of Education Economics provides a unified, consistent source of analysis for policy development and implementation related to talent development.
Local Prevailing Wages & Unemployment Rates Worksheet
This worksheet allows users to access each Virginia locality’s most up-to-date average salary, unemployment rate, and distress level assignment, updated quarterly.
VEDP Reports & Publications
These documents are provided as resource documents for Virginia’s economic development community.
Economic developers across Virginia
Economic developers across Virginia
Stay in the know about who’s who in the Virginia economic development community and who does what at VEDP.
VEDP Regional Representatives
VEDP has staff embedded regionally across the Commonwealth. Business Retention, Talent Solutions, and International Trade Managers serve as resources for existing Virginia businesses.
VEDP Orientation
VEDP offers quarterly Economic Development 101 and VEDP Orientation sessions to leaders and practitioners involved in economic development across Virginia.
Pleasure House Point
Pleasure House Point
Marketing Resources Database
Marketing Resources Database
Marketing Virginia as a business location destination is an important component of economic development. As the Commonwealth further invests in integrated marketing initiatives and lead generation activities to tell its story, VEDP continues to develop marketing materials and collateral to enhance the efforts of our economic development partners. Regional and local economic development practitioners in Virginia can access VEDP’s Marketing Resources Database for marketing collateral to use in their own marketing efforts.