Declining school enrollment. Rising diversity. Expanding high-speed Internet. The increasing importance of small firms. Growing employment in some towns and job losses in others.
Those are just some of the economic trends that a new planning initiative hopes to examine, laying a foundation to better understand the Monadnock Region’s economy, set economic development goals and identify the projects that are key to enhancing prosperity.
The initiative, called “Our Economy,” is led by the Southwest Region Planning Commission. It’ll be the commission’s first major overhaul of its comprehensive economic development strategy since 2005, said Senior Planner Todd Horner.
“It helps economic development entities … to better understand what’s happening on the ground across the region, so…
