Southern Indiana Business Report
PIKE COUNTY – The Southwest Indiana Development Council (SWIDC), a 10-county non-profit organization that drives regional economic development, will partner with Radius Indiana this spring on two site selector trips to Chicago and Cleveland.
Additionally, SWIDC announces a new partnership with the Southern Indiana Business Report.
SWIDC President Ashley Willis said Radius, which launched SIBR in 2021, has done a great job reporting news of the region on the online news source and expanding news coverage from the SWIDC counties will amplify the greater southwest region.
“The Radius team has been a fantastic partner to elevate a broader southwest Indiana voice and with more demand for news sources, this seemed like a win-win situation for the SWIDC region,” Willis said.
“Radius community leaders understand that the regional nature of economic growth means that when the SWIDC communities have successes, our own communities feel positive ripples, so it was an easy conversation that led to broadening the Southern Indiana Business Report territory,” said Jeff Quyle, President and CEO of Radius Indiana. “The more that those outside the region learn about the diverse economic successes we achieve in Southern Indiana, the better we’ll all look.”
The SWIDC region is made up of local economic development leaders from Crawford, Daviess, Dubois, Harrison, Knox, Martin, Orange, Perry, Pike, and Spencer counties. SWIDC has regionally been working together for over 30 years.
The SWIDC organization helps in creating and developing data sources to support the studies or planning documents to attract new business, entrepreneurship, population growth and marketing to beautiful southwest Indiana.
Most recently, SWIDC completed an entrepreneurial essential services study, childcare study, and a regional arts and culture study. SWIDC heavily relies upon input from its local economic development organizations on the needs and gaps in the region’s communities to then provide data sources to attract essential services and fill the gaps that exist in rural southwest Indiana.
“The recent partnership between Radius and SWIDC is a bright beginning to leverage our resources to do joint recruiting for business attraction and expansion,” Willis added.