County businesses focus on collaborative efforts
CRANBERRY TWP — Collaboration once again was the name of the game at Butler County Community Development Corporation’s annual meeting Friday morning.
The meeting, hosted at the Regional Learning Alliance in Cranberry Woods, brought together the CDC’s membership to discuss the growth and development efforts seen throughout Butler County.
The CDC’s last annual meeting was in March 2019, according to Jordan Grady, executive director of the Butler County Chamber of Commerce. Much has changed since then, Grady said — the COVID-19 pandemic the biggest change of all — but the importance of working to advance the county’s economic growth remains.
“Unfortunately the past few years have derailed a lot of things,” Grady said. “Our goals that we announced (at the 2019 meeting) ... certainly got impacted, but we continue to move forward and we really stress the theme of collaboration that was announced in 2019.”
Rusty Rhodes, senior vice president with Huntington Bank, opened up the meeting by discussing the growth seen in the county.
“Just drive through Butler County and you see the growth and you just feeel like there’s this awakening that is occurring within our region,” Rhodes said.
Rhodes drew attention to what he called “behind-the-scenes” work, performed by business owners and the CDC alike aimed toward improving the quality of a business environment in the county.
While collaboration was not a formal theme of the meeting, each speaker brought up the importance of county businesses continuing to work together to improve the local economy and continue the growth seen in Butler County.
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