{"id":77,"date":"2013-02-14T20:33:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T20:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/massecon.com\/?page_id=77"},"modified":"2026-01-05T10:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T15:32:15","slug":"about-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/massecon.com\/pl\/about\/about-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Bringing the public and private sectors together, MassEcon champions Massachusetts as the best place to start, grow, or locate a business.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The Commonwealth\u2019s only statewide, non-profit economic development organization, MassEcon:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Markets Massachusetts beyond its borders at trade shows and site selector events,<\/li>\n<li>Provides statewide site-selection services as a partner with the state to site selectors and companies,<\/li>\n<li>Develops business intelligence research to support local and state partners and develop lead prospects,<\/li>\n<li>Brings public and private expertise to support locational decision-making,<\/li>\n<li>and annually recognizes businesses that have made the decision to grow in Massachusetts.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In 2018 alone, MassEcon provided 50 customized site selection searches for 50 companies or site selectors seeking 5.2 million square feet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"arve-wrapper\" data-mode=\"normal\" data-provider=\"vimeo\" id=\"arve-309318745\" style=\"max-width:900px;\" itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n<div class=\"arve-embed-container\" style=\"padding-bottom:56.250000%\"><meta itemprop=\"embedURL\" content=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/309318745?html5=1&amp;title=1&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;autoplay=0\"><div class=\"iframe-container\"><iframe allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" frameborder=\"0\" name sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-forms\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/309318745?html5=1&#038;title=1&#038;byline=0&#038;portrait=0&#038;autoplay=0\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\"><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>MassEcon Foundation<\/h4>\n<p>The Massachusetts Economic Development Foundation is MassEcon\u2019s 501(c)3 affiliate. The Foundation hosts MassEcon\u2019s Annual Conference each year, other educational forums, and is the corporate home for the state\u2019s <em>Massachusetts It\u2019s All Here<\/em> initiative, the public-private collaboration that markets Massachusetts as a great place to live, work, play, and study.<\/p>\n<h4>MassEcon&#8217;s History<\/h4>\n<p>In 1993, recognizing the need for a private-public partnership to promote Massachusetts as a place to do business, a consortium of the state&#8217;s utility and telecommunications companies, real estate associations, and our public sector partner, the Massachusetts Office of Business Development, founded the Massachusetts Alliance for Economic Development (MassEcon). MassEcon&#8217;s founding was an outgrowth of recommendations made by the Governor&#8217;s Council on Economic Growth &amp; Technology, a body of civic and business leaders which advised Governor Weld on issues relating to the competitiveness of Massachusetts. The founding members have since been joined by new firms in many fields and though services and membership have expanded, the overriding objective of MassEcon remains to encourage the expansion and retention of business within the Commonwealth. MassEcon has assisted over 1,200 companies in their search for suitable locations in all parts of Massachusetts. Major companies we have worked with over the past several years include Sun Microsystems, Bristol-Meyers Squibb, Novartis, Straumann, 3COM, American Superconductor Corporation, and Merck &amp; Co. among others.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/massecon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/About-MassEcon-2019-08092019.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\" data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">About MassEcon 2019 08092019<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bringing the public and private sectors together, MassEcon champions Massachusetts as the best place to start, grow, or locate a business. 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