{"id":1604,"date":"2022-04-12T10:44:39","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T15:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/?p=1604"},"modified":"2023-03-21T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T15:44:53","slug":"robert-long-recognized-amongst-top-economic-developers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/robert-long-recognized-amongst-top-economic-developers\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Long Recognized Amongst Top Economic Developers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chester County Economic Development is delighted to announce that their own director Robert Long has made the prestigious Consultant Connect list of North America\u2019s Top 50 Economic Developers of 2022. Mr. Long is one of only three economic developers from South Carolina to be recognized this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter more than twenty-five years in this profession, it is great to be recognized by your peers as one of the top economic developers in North America,\u201d said Robert Long, director of Chester County Economic Development. \u201c2021 was a great year for Chester County, which was highlighted by the E. &amp; J. Gallo Winery and Last Step Recycling announcements. The Gallo project was recognized in January by Business Facilities and Trade &amp; Industry Development publications as one of the top projects of last year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>About Chester County Economic Development<br \/>\nCreated by Chester County in 2004, the mission of Chester County Economic Development (CCED) is to create an environment that supports existing industry expansion, encourages new industry investments, fosters entrepreneurialism, and welcomes visitation by others\u2014all of which support the provision of public services and otherwise improves each citizen\u2019s prosperity and overall quality of life. Over the past five years, CCED has been responsible for 22 announcements with $895 million in new capital investment and the creation of 1,496 jobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/2022-Top-50-Press-Release.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Download 2022 Top 50 Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chester County Economic Development is delighted to announce that their own director Robert Long has made the prestigious Consultant Connect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1606,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions\/1606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elephanteardesign.com\/cced\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}