Our Mission: Dynamic & Multifaceted

Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED) manages economic and residential development for the County, a dynamic, multifaceted mission that includes these objectives:

• Attract new business to the County.
• Help businesses and institutions already here expand, modernize and create jobs.
• Acquire and assemble sites for development and redevelopment.
• Assure that minority, woman-owned, and disadvantaged businesses participate fully in the County’s growth.
• Help residents, developers and nonprofit agencies increase the stability of the County’s residential neighborhoods.
• Support homeowners in the acquisition and renovation of their dwellings.
• Improve the County’s housing stock.
• Ensure the vitality of neighborhood business districts.
• Aid the County’s municipalities in updating infrastructure, including sewer and water systems, highways and recreation amenities.
• Provide leadership for special projects, such as the community’s response to natural disasters.
• Monitor and report on the compliance status of all projects and programs with Federal or State support.

Clearly, the mandate is broad, the challenges many. Yet we achieve progress on all these fronts by coordinating success, that is, by serving as the catalyst for public-private-neighborhood partnerships that provide greater expertise and participation than any one organization could generate by itself.

Two of our most important partners are the Federal government and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In addition, we team with private businesses, developers and contractors; the philanthropic community, and vital nonprofit and community-based agencies. To create Tax Increment Financing Districts, we partner with local governments and school boards. To help our research universities with company formation ACED serves as a member of the Greater Oakland Keystone Innovation Zone.

These multiple, overlapping partnerships form the foundation of success. More, they assure that the development of Allegheny County reflects the aspirations and needs of our businesses, institutions and residents.