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History of the Alliance
In 1993, recognizing the need for a private-public partnership to promote Massachusetts as a place to do business, a consortium of the state's utility and telecommunications companies, real estate associations, and our public sector partner, the
Massachusetts Office of Business
Development, founded the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development. The Alliance's founding was an outgrowth of recommendations made by the Governor's Council on Economic Growth & Technology, a body of civic and business leaders which advised Governor Weld on issues relating to the competitiveness of Massachusetts.
The founding members envisioned the Alliance as a non-partisan, professionally-staffed organization that would serve as the Commonwealth's central source of available property information for expanding and relocating companies. To this end, the Alliance's Site Finder Service was founded, focusing on assisting companies find appropriate properties for facility expansion in Massachusetts.
Today
the Alliance, a member
of the Massachusetts
Business Resource Team,
has augmented its Site
Finder Service with a
Research and Information
Service and an
Ambassadors program,
both designed to provide
decision-support to
companies evaluating
Massachusetts as a
location for their
business; and the
founding members have
since been joined by
firms in law,
architecture,
construction, and
finance. While services
and membership have
expanded, the overriding
objective of the
Alliance remains to
encourage the expansion
and retention of
business within the
Commonwealth.
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