To accomplish its mission, The Alliance:
• Advises and promotes Economic Development Best Practices at all local levels.
• Represents Brazoria County as a Designated Economic Development Office with The Governor’s Office, Economic Development & Tourism.
• Promotes the development of business parks with shovel-ready sites, then assists in marketing the business parks to qualified industrial prospects, whether existing in the county or new.
• Supports local projects through Board-endorsed letters, phone calls, e-mails, faxes and testimony.
• Provides staff for the planning and implementation of Brazoria County Day.
• Provides, as needed, economic impact analysis for tax abatement applications.
• Assists new and existing primary employers with tax abatement and other incentive applications.
• Prepares, free of charge, detailed demographic reports for specific geographic areas and/or radii.
• Provides GIS aerial mapping services, free of charge.
• Gathers required price information for American Chamber of Commerce Research Association’s quarterly cost of living survey.
• Provides primary economic development for those cities and unincorporated areas of the county that do not have an economic development staff.
• Updates its Local Industrial Services Directory, and disseminates it quarterly, to the Brazoria County petrochemical plants’ procurement departments in order to promote the use of local industrial service companies.
• Facilitates three standing committees – Operations, Government Relations and Infrastructure – that meet to address topics in their appropriate areas.