This is part of a three-part post on COVID-19 resources. FEDC has been working with many small businesses and landowners through COVID-19 shut down, and have gathered a cache of information that, we expect, would be valuable to other businesses in Freeport and beyond.  Those discussions and conferences and the…

Both the taxable retail sales data and anecdotal evidence from local retailers supports the conclusion that online retail shopping is impacting brick and mortar retail sales, but it’s only a part of the story, especially in Freeport. For example, despite the decline in retail sales and the prevailing narrative about…

Last year, the Pew Research Center reported that while most Americans are aware that manufacturing employment has decreased dramatically since 2000, most were unaware that American manufacturing output has increased significantly over that same time period. The changing job market is a major issue for economic development nationwide, but even…