On-Line Publications

TP 156:  EDA Public Works in RI, 1996-2000

RI Energy Plan 2002 Element 781

Economic Development Policies and Plan Element 211

RI Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
(5 Year Update)

Industrial Land Use Plan Element 212

   Mill Building Reuse:  A Survey of Current Mill Conditions 
and the Market for Mill Space

The mission of the Economic Development Planning Section of the Statewide Planning Program is:

To foster and maintain a vigorous economy able to provide an adequate number and variety of activities that generate wealth for the people of the state.

We work with economic development practitioners to encourage sustainable industrial and commercial development that advances the long-term economic and environmental well-being of the state.

COMPREHENSIVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY (CEDS)
2008 PRIORITY PROJECT LIST

Upon the recommendations of the CEDS Subcommittee and the Technical Committee, the State Planning Council has approved the following projects for Rhode Island’s CEDS Priority Project List:

This list of projects has been sent to the Economic Development Administration (EDA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce in support of any and all applications project proponents wish to make for EDA funding.

In the light of our state’s high unemployment, the Division of Planning conducted a focused CEDS solicitation to add ready-to-go job creating projects to those that we had already recommended to the federal Economic Development Administration. These projects are recommended below: