The Community Economic Development Program (CEDP) has established an excellent track record in assisting communities and regions in their efforts to enhance their abilities to improve their citizens’ standards of living. The program model involves key stakeholders in a process which leads to an optimal level of investment in their communities. This model has proven successful in a number of communities throughout Georgia, in the southeastern region of the United States, and internationally.

While CEDP continues to provide limited support to ongoing efforts, the emphasis is always on exploring a variety of challenging endeavors that have the potential to move rural Georgia forward. It is the goal of CEDP to have efforts provide opportunities for the citizens of our state while continuing to improve how we provide this service.

The Community Economic Development Program

• Assists cities and counties in implementing quality downtown development projects
• Supports multicounty and regional collaboration in economic development
• Assists local communities in developing unique and productive economic development projects
• Assists local and state governments and the private sector in cooperating on large scale tourism-related projects with multiple uses that will create jobs and enhance the local community’s ability to invest in its future overall development

Recent and ongoing tourism projects focus on corridors, both along highways and along rivers.

• US 441 Corridor
• Coastal Corridor/Southern Passages: US17/A1A from Charleston, SC to St. Augustine, FL
• River Valley Corridor Development from above Columbus, GA to Gulf of Mexico

Contact Danny Bivins () for more information.