CERB partners with local governments to attract and retain vital businesses by providing necessary infrastructure improvements and valuable planning resources. CERB has invested in some of our state’s most economically challenged communities, creating jobs and generating private business investment. Since the program began 26 years ago, CERB investments have helped create and retain 32,000 jobs, leveraged more than 2.5 billion private sector dollars, and generated more than $34 million in annual state and local tax revenue. CERB continues to be one of the states’ most effective and respected economic development programs and stands ready to assist with economic recovery efforts during the next biennium. (Jobs, investment, and tax revenue data updated April 2009.)

 

Cardinal Float Glass facility in Winlock, Wash.