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Packaging manufacturer hiring 500 for new Pasco County plant
January 11, 2024 - Garyline, a New York packaging manufacturer moving to Pasco County, is hiring more than 500 people and will hold its first job fair Saturday.The fair will be held at the Garyline’s new 279,000-square-facility at 14799 Shady Hills Road in Spring Hill, starting at 1 p.m. According to the company...
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Pasco County uses ‘Ready Sites’ program to help local job market keep pace with growing population
November 7, 2023 - As more and more people choose to call Pasco County their new home, the Pasco Economic Development Council, or EDC, is taking steps to ensure the local job market can keep up. In 2015, Pasco EDC launched the Ready Sites program. Working with landowners, local municipalities, and...
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Economic developers find new cooperation, especially in seeking foreign direct investment
November 3, 2023 - With so many county-based and local economic development organizations around the Tampa Bay region, results have suffered in the past from silos and fiefdoms.While there are still overlapping redundancies, there's a new understanding of the importance of how organizations can work together, said Craig Richard, CEO of the...
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After Amazon retreat, Sunlake business center in Pasco is repositioned as flex space
November 3, 2023 - A poster child of the Great Recession impact, the prime site envisioned for years as a sprawling corporate campus of T. Rowe Price is now 360,000 square feet of finished flex space.
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Workforce development is a top EDC priority, but strategies differ
November 3, 2023 - Eleven Tampa Bay economic development organizations were asked about strategy and planning. Organizations were asked to tell readers how workforce development fits into their work for the remainder of 2023 and into 2024 and how they measure if that work is making a difference. Beyond the workforce, they also provided goals...
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What Pasco is selling and how: Adaption to site selectors’ preferences is trial and error
November 3, 2023 - On a morning road tour designed to provide a snapshot of Pasco County's economic development priorities, Pasco EDC Director of Business Development Tom Ryan tells about a recent Chicago encounter with a site consultant. A woman entered a boardroom with her arms full of brochures and pamphlets and threw...
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New website tool focuses on helping employers, job seekers
October 31, 2023 - The Pasco Economic Development Council (Pasco EDC) recently added new features on workforceCONNECTpasco.com.The new ConnectOPP tool allows employers to help bridge the gap between employers and job seekers, according to a Pasco EDC news release.
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Brazilian food company in discussion to build Zephyrhills factory, create 600 jobs
October 26, 2023 - A Brazilian food manufacturer has plans to build a $200-million dollar facility in Zephyrhills.The company, Bauducco Foods, which specializes in biscuits, wafers and bread, would bring about 600 jobs to the area.
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