Our Business Retention and Expansion Program recognizes the value of existing primary* businesses and is designed to identify issues, increase communication, and improve our community’s overall business climate by providing an enhanced level of service. Understanding the challenges and opportunities facing businesses allows the economic development team to create customized solutions and provide connections to information and resources that help support our common goal of strong and sustained economic vitality in Albemarle County.

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Services

Services we lead, support or partner are listed below.

• Lead the Business Retention and Expansion Program
• Lead the growth of targeted industries, existing primary businesses and emerging opportunities
• Lead and support agribusinesses
• Support a skilled and trained workforce
• Lead the County’s Readiness to Accommodate Business
• Lead and Support Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Lead the development of Public Private Partnerships that increase direct private investment
• Improve the business climate by reducing controllable barriers. (Community Development & Finance)
• Partner to expand the County’s tourism sector

Project ENABLE

The Economic Development Office is guided by Project ENABLE.

*We focus on Primary Businesses and refer Consumptive Businesses to our community partners.

• A primary business produces a good or service locally and primarily sells it outside of the Charlottesville MSA.
• A consumptive business provides a good or service locally (within the Charlottesville MSA).