La Plata ... It's Just Good Business

The pendulum has swung.  America's corporate community is shifting back to basics.  Marketing strategies that once endorsed a global, one-size-fits-all approach to business growth are re-discovering the importance of relationships, knowing the customer, and focusing locally.  It's just good business.

In La Plata ... good business is what we're all about.  We know the importance of integrity and authenticity in reaching out to new businesses.  We've built a solid infrastructure on relationships ... getting them and keeping them.  From the town government, to its companies, landowners, business support organizations and more, we're a town in touch with what it takes to grow.

The La Plata town government actively encourages businesses to relocate here. It encourages individuals and start-ups to think "downtown" when planning new offices, stores and other commercial ventures.  Private/public partnerships in La Plata offer technical assistance to incoming businesses as well as strategic planning, marketing and workforce training.  Area financial institutions place local funding high on the scale of importance for ensuring the success of community development.  The economic climate clearly supports the growth of a vibrant mixed-use shopping and employment district in downtown.

Sound economic growth is evidenced by La Plata's emergence as a highly skilled, educated, affluent and discerning marketplace.  A recent market analysis demonstrates La Plata's many enviable opportunities for new business development.  The growth of a downtown employment base complements the increased demand for office space.  In addition, the continued rise in household income and related expenditure potential has spurred more new business opportunities in specialty retail categories.

Other positive economic indicators include build-back plans for downtown property owners.  In addition to property replacement, these plans are expanding the amount of modern, leasable space beyond that recorded pre-tornado.  This includes twenty five thousand square feet of office space.

La Plata's gentle pace of life conjures a fond memory of America's past.  However, its central location to three metropolitan areas, and their international airports, clearly positions it for the future.  Baltimore, Richmond, and Washington, D.C. put shopping, dining, and the arts, as well as major corporations, organizations and government within easy reach.  A four-lane highway, MD 301, supports swift connection to these destinations as well as ground transportation for goods, services and access by employees.

In 2002, a group of local business people took La Plata's focus on planned growth to another level.  By first forming a mission, then putting their words into action, they created the La Plata Business Association to help the community realize its vision.  The Association, aided by a professional town planning firm, is working to send the message that La Plata is open for business.

A downtown primed for development, a local government committed to enabling planned growth, sites and structures ready for the build-to-suit market, expanding residential communities rich with housing and human resources, and a philosophy of life that still puts integrity and authenticity at the center of what's important ...

Everything's here. 
All we need is you.