How to get jobs in Southern Virginia is a question county and city leaders have struggled with for years.
They hope part of the solution will come with help from a new economic development alliance.
The Southern Virginia Regional Alliance covers four counties and two cities and will look at how to market big businesses in the region.
Those factories will move into industrial parks like Cane Creek Park in Danville.
But this is just one of 27 sites the regional alliance looks to bring business.
“What we would really like to accomplish is to give an awareness of the Southern Virginia region to both national and international companies as a viable place to come and do business and we would like to increase the number of leads that come through the area,” said alliance Executive Director Leigh Cockram.
The alliances plan on traveling to companies and using their website to usher business to the region.
from WDBJ7.com