A manufacturing line employee at Milo’s Complete World Gourmand in Nelsonville. Manufacturing and Limitations to Workforce are two of eight aim areas addressed in Buckeye Hills Ahead: A Regional Financial Plan.
Buckeye Hills Regional Council has unveiled the newest replace of its Complete Financial Improvement Technique (CEDS), titled Buckeye Hills Ahead: A Regional Financial Plan.
The doc outlines a shared imaginative and prescient for financial development and resilience throughout eight counties in Southeast Ohio: Athens, Hocking, Meigs, Monroe, Morgan, Noble, Perry, and Washington.
Authorized by the U.S. Financial Improvement Administration on July 19, 2025, Buckeye Hills Ahead is greater than a strategic plan, mentioned Buckeye Hills Improvement Director Sam Miller.
“Buckeye Hills Ahead displays a regionally pushed method to financial growth constructed by the voices, concepts, and priorities of the individuals who stay and work in Southeast Ohio,” Miller mentioned. “Buckeye Hills Ahead helps us establish our strengths, handle our challenges, and work collectively to create good jobs, diversify our economic system, and construct a extra vibrant future.”
Over the subsequent 5 years, Buckeye Hills Regional Council will work carefully with native governments, financial growth organizations, companies, nonprofits, and residents to implement the initiatives outlined within the plan. Key priorities embody:
¯Launching community-driven initiatives that align with regional targets.
¯Securing state, federal, and personal funding to assist financial development.
¯Offering information, mapping, planning, and grant assist to assist communities convey their concepts to life.
The plan directs these efforts towards eight aim areas: Agriculture, Power Improvement, Housing, Manufacturing, Out of doors Recreation, Small Enterprise Core, Limitations to Workforce, and Regional Management.
Earlier this yr, Buckeye Hills hosted a sequence of open home periods throughout Southeast Ohio to assemble enter and share the imaginative and prescient behind Buckeye Hills Ahead.
These occasions offered a platform for residents, native officers, and stakeholders to think about the way forward for their communities.
“Buckeye Hills Ahead belongs to all of us,” Miller added. “It outlines priorities for strengthening our economic system, investing in infrastructure, supporting our workforce, and preserving what makes this area particular. Most significantly, it’s a dwelling doc–a information that we’ll adapt and replace as we work collectively to make its targets a actuality.”
Buckeye Hills Regional Council will observe progress yearly, replace methods as circumstances change, and share common updates and milestones at buckeyehills.org/ahead.
To be taught extra about Buckeye Hills Regional Council, go to www.buckeyehills.org, name 740-374-9436 or 1-800-331-2644 (toll-free), or e mail data@buckeyehills.org.
