Greater Portland, Inc.

Greater Portland, Inc. focuses on driving quality economic expansion and job creation in the Greater Portland area, with a focus on sustainable industries. Examples include wind farm development and energy creation and related jobs, green building/development industry, solar manufacturing, computer software, and other environmental services. They work to highlight the benefits of the Greater Portland region, including diversity of the population, education levels and opportunities, labor force, innovation, restaurants, recreation, and pedestrian/bicycle-friendly transportation infrastructure, among others to attract businesses and employment to the region. With a higher percentage of citizens willing to pay a little more for "green" products and services, relative to many other regions in the country, they recognize and market their uniqueness to businesses. They realize they are not necessarily a market for companies to locate and conduct business only locally, rather they are an "export economy", meaning, companies establish themselves/headquarters locally, but conduct business (for example, green developers) across the country and even around the world. Their goal is to improve the economy of Portland without sacrificing, and in fact improving, the quality of life Portland residents have come to expect and enjoy.