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A commitment to business

• Sustaining a vibrant local economy is a matter of public policy. Concord understands the importance of its business community, and balances business and residential needs to the benefit of both. This policy has kept City government fiscally sound and the community economically healthy.
• Proactive initiatives promote economic diversity, streamline business and permit activity, maintain and improve the high quality of Concord's physical infrastructure, encourage a broad mix of affordable and upscale housing, and offer the community outstanding recreational facilities and activities.
• Moreover, our partnership approach identifies ways to enhance business opportunities and quickly resolve issues. A number of Concord's programs typify the ways in which we help businesses succeed.

Economic Vitality Strategy, Business Attraction and Retention Programs

• Concord devotes considerable energy to providing a variety of services and programs to attract new quality businesses as well as help existing companies achieve sustained growth.
• The City's Economic Vitality Strategy promotes partnerships among businesses, merchants, residents, community groups and City departments to anticipate needs and creatively solve problems when they occur. The strategy guides City policy to enable Concord to provide efficient, timely local services and maximize companies' success.
• Concord's Business Retention Program offers a variety of services to assist in the retention and expansion of Concord businesses. The program's activities address the needs of distinct segments of the business community and seek to enhance the City's relationship with local businesses by strengthening communication, providing educational workshops and resources and recognizing significant business contributors. The program also offers site selection and permit facilitation.
• Promoting the fact that Concord is the right fit for companies and their employees is an important element of the City's business attraction effort. Concord's Business Attraction Program includes marketing the specific strengths of Concord, partnering with the real estate community and providing valuable information via the interactive economic development web page - concordfirst.com. The web page offers listings of available properties, demographic information and market reports.

One-stop Permit Center

Today's economy demands quick response to changing conditions and reduced time to market. Concord's award-winning One-stop Permit Center at City Hall provides the flexibility to build or renovate facilities faster, cut construction costs, get people working sooner and speed time to revenue.

Ten-year financial plan

Concord is one of the few cities in the nation to adopt a 10-year financial plan. This far-sighted strategy increases fiscal stability by assuring long-term funding of services and programs. Concord also implements performance-based budgeting to measure program and service efficiency, cost-effectiveness and outcomes