Regional Services

The Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce’s menu of services program was named the #1 Regional and Cross-Border Collaboration program by the International Economic Development Council in 2009. This program deepens the marketing of South Central Kentucky to site selection professionals and industries, informing their decisions to locate business here in the region. While this is the primary goal of the program, it also

• Provides excellent, cost-effective economic development services to the surrounding counties that do not have full-time economic development professionals of their own.
• Deepens the Chamber’s ability to increase the competitiveness of the area counties, involving all organizations and officials in economic development efforts in the region.
• Drives the economic development success of the entire South Central Kentucky region with a commitment to industry attraction, as well as to assist in current industries’ retention and expansion plans.

To accomplish these goals, the Chamber developed an a la carte menu of its economic development services, which Chamber staff has begun to present to the surrounding counties. The services include

• Economic development administration
• Business attraction
• Business retention and expansion
• Strategic planning
• Product development

The menu of services provides all counties in the region with the opportunity to enhance their economic development efforts. Overall, we want to provide all regional partners with the same level of economic development expertise to be a collective force in attracting, retaining, and expanding industries in South Central Kentucky.

Maureen Carpenter, IOM, EDP, director, regional development, is responsible for economic development efforts in the counties that have agreed to a level of the menu of services program.