Economic Development

Springfield needs more good jobs so its hard-working people can make a good living, buy houses, send their kids to college, and have a secure retirement.
But businesses won’t invest in places they feel are unsafe. To keep our existing companies in Springfield, to attract new businesses, and encourage start-ups, we need to take care of crime, first of all.

Second, we need an economic development team of people who know the city and its needs, know how to make a solid pitch to attract new companies, and know how to work to keep the businesses and jobs we already have.

And there’s something else we can do: Foster Springfield’s entrepreneurial spirit. In the “City of Firsts,” people invented the first gas-powered automobile, the first gas-powered motorcycle, and the game of basketball. In a down economy, sometimes the best job is the one you make for yourself. The Williams administration will do everything it can to help businesses grow here, move here, and thrive and prosper here. That way, we’ll have good jobs here.