News in Carroll

Interested in starting your own business but you don’t know where to start? Carroll County has many resources available to help entrepreneurs start their own business and CADC can help you find them today!  Organizations like the North Central Iowa Small Business Development Center, Iowa Area Development Group and Iowa Economi...Continue Reading

 The Cost of Living in Carroll County is much more favorable than the national average. Those interested in moving to Carroll County can utilize a comparison tool on the CADC website to understand the Cost of Living differences between their hometown and Carroll County. For example, the total monthly expected spendin...Continue Reading

The CADC website is the best resource for understanding the workforce characteristics of Carroll County’s labor market. Routinely performed studies demonstrating key factors like workforce distribution in an area, unemployment and likelihood of a person to change employment are available on the website. For example, click here to read th...Continue Reading

Carroll County has a skilled workforce and the CADC can provide the data required for every business owner to fully understand it! Our website has a complete illustration of everything that defines the area’s workforce. For example, Carroll County has nearly 15,000 total workers across a wide range of industries...Continue Reading

 Carroll County offers the central location advantages every prospering business needs! Located In the beautiful rolling hills and rural farmland of West Central Iowa, Carroll County has major transportation assets to reach major Midwestern urban centers easily. Highways 30 & 71 bisect the county, allowing individual and freight transportation t...Continue Reading

 The best businesses and entrepreneurs know a major factor increasing their level of success lies in understanding their communities. The CADC website has all the information every business owner needs to maximize their success in Carroll County! Looking for clear, definitive data on the county as a whole or the thirteen individua...Continue Reading

Carroll County is a region defined by possibility! Whether your business expansion needs a new building or you are looking to start from scratch at a new site, Carroll County has the right location for you. The property search feature on the CADC website provides current availability. The supply o...Continue Reading

The coronavirus pandemic plunged the world into a deep health and economic crisis. The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine points to a “light at the end of the tunnel” for the country’s physical health, but as we collectively take stock for ways to rebuild our economy stronger and more resilien...Continue Reading

AD: How has COVID-19 changed the employee experience in manufacturing, and what facets of this should organizations retain going forward? Zenk: Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, employees have been experiencing a drastically different work environment. Thousands of manufacturers across the U.S. and around the world were deemed essential during the pandemic...Continue Reading

The Ins and Outs of Data Centers I think one of the misconceptions about the data center business is that it’s a niche space. And the reality is it's become a very large industry and investment. And one of the things that we reference in talking to our clients is th...Continue Reading

While the pandemic caused massive supply chain disruptions that hindered the global distribution and logistics landscape, it also shined a spotlight on the industry’s importance, which only stands to grow in the coming years. Consider its impact on Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG), located on the Kentucky side of the Ohi...Continue Reading

Core technology jobs are weathering the pandemic better than many other occupations as demand stays strong for tech services and products that support social distancing and basic business and societal functions. This bodes well for tech hotspots across North America. The tech industry already is a pillar of the U.S. economy...Continue Reading

Of course, the big factor impacting office and industrial parks going into 2021 is COVID-19. The pandemic has reduced business production and workforce (through illness, social distancing, and remote working), disrupted the supply chain and cash flow, and brought about significant investments in technology. Across the nation, the demand for suburba...Continue Reading

The Carroll Area Development Corporation (CADC) collects Business Retention and Expansion (BRE) data to understand local market trends. Specifically, the CADC participates in the annual  Business Expansion and Strategic Trends (BEST of Iowa) program to collect BRE data because it is a statewide business retention and expansion program. The BEST progra...Continue Reading

The Carroll Area Development Corporation has a volunteer Board of Directors focused on the economic development interests throughout Carroll County. The board is represented by individuals within the public and private sectors with a wide range of pertinent experience. Their role is to provide the strategic leadership and operational oversigh...Continue Reading

You know you need remote workers, now let's talk about how to attract remote workers to your community. REMOTE WORKERS bring an abundance of advantages to a local workforce, from growing the tax base to diversifying the labor pool. As remote work continues to grow, more communities will benefit from adding remote workers to their loca...Continue Reading

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                            Austin Farmer with Retail Coach came to Carroll on Monday February 22nd and Tuesday February 23rd to present retail data to the City Council, boards and local businesses. Retail Coach is being used in an investment effort to grow and bring economic development to the Carroll area. Ji...Continue Reading

The Carroll Area Development Corporation’s website is your go-to source for the latest news impacting the Carroll County business community. Visiting the site on a routine basis will keep any savvy business person ‘in-the-know!” Selecting our News link provides the most recent and exciting up-to-date information defining Carroll County. Fro...Continue Reading

Regional housing studies and solutions to shortages have been a topic of conversation for many years, but City Manager, Mike Pogge-Weaver, gave a presentation to the Carroll City Council Monday on this topic and expanded on it during a live interview with Carroll Broadcasting. He says this is not a...Continue Reading

While 2020 was a challenging year, I have to look back in amazement at the strength, resiliency and adaptability of the business community in Carroll. While I have always considered myself a lifelong learner and look for the lessons in every experience, the takeaways from the past year were monumental. Eac...Continue Reading

For Tim Gute, Carroll really is his hometown — he was born to Art and Mickey Gute about 3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 25, 1957, at St. Anthony Hospital. And Gute urges many other people too to call Carroll their hometown, no matter whether they were born here or moved to th...Continue Reading

Carroll County is the hub of Western Iowa with a pro-business climate in a great place to live! And the Carroll Area Development Corporation (CADC) is Carroll County’s hub of economic development! The CADC is known for a bold, future-oriented and politically astute commitment to economic and community development. Everythin...Continue Reading

One of the things we've all lost during this pandemic is the opportunity to get out and meet new colleagues from across the industry and discuss different strategies for dealing with important subjects in economic development, such as corporate site selection, business retention and support, workforce attraction, and talent development...Continue Reading

Over the course of the past year, the Carroll Chamber of Commerce has seen a pandemic-related shift in the way they are working with local businesses and consumers alike. Executive Director, Shannon Landauer, explains how they adapted to meet the community’s needs. The chamber staff meets annually with the larger employer...Continue Reading