104-24 Exhibits-Economic Development Counsultant - 2024.pdf

Needs Overview Economic Development Experience: Nishuane Group economic development experience includes providing critical economic development expertise and support to the City of East Orange as a contracted consultant. We are working collaboratively with this client to support their business attraction and retention efforts, to address needs of small local businesses as well as identify crucial ways to expand growing sectors and industies of their economy. The range of services we can provide municipalities include the following: * Business Inventory: creating business inventories for use by municipalities + Workforce Analysis: assessing and analyzing workforce data, socio-economic demographics * Refention and Expansion: engage small businesses and start- ups to determine needs and challenges + Industy gowth: analyzing and identifying how growth can occur in staggering industries/sectors + Small business developmen: assess special improvement disticts, support streetscape improvements + Redevelopment: conduct redevelopment studies; identify areas of potential redevelopment Our firm economic development experience also includes the preparing economic development elements of municipal comprehensive master plans within New Jersey. We have used the American Planning Association's model for economic development plans and the New Jersey Planning Officials Municipal Master Plan Manual for preparing economic development elements of comprehensive plans. Our team is fluent in using the most recent US. Census data, other supporting documents and previous plans fo do a comprehensive analysis of the existing market trends and forecast future projections. We have experience developing Economic Development elements of Master Plans for the City of East Orange, City of Orange Township and City of Plainfield, for which we provide examples of within this proposal. In addition, Mr. Sawyer on our team has extensive experience preparing real estate market analyses. This experience is imperative as we develop feasible and realistic economic development strategies for the Township.