2016

Every dollar invested and every retained or new job that SEDA helped facilitate. Including 1,026 new job opportunities and $279 million in investment.

Returned 14 parcels of improved land to the Chatham County tax digest, resulting in almost $3 million in additional property tax revenue - an increase of 1,200 percent in just 10 years.

Purchased 685-acre property located off of Old River Road near Interstate 16 that is zoned industrial and master planned for 3.25-3.5 million square feet of industrial building space.

Creation and passage of the SEDA Creative Technologies Incentive, the first-ever local incentive plan for the creative tech sector in Savannah.

Management of the Savannah Area Film Office transferred to SEDA.

Received approval from the United States Citizen and Immigration Service for Savannah World Trade Center for Investment.

World Trade Center Savannah recognized as having one of the most active websites in the entire World Trade Centers network.

More than $61 million in economic spend by entertainment productions in Chatham County with 104 professional and 176 student productions. Savannah was also named number one “Best 10 Small Places and Towns to Live and Work as a Moviemaker” by MovieMaker magazine.

Combined marketing and sales efforts with the Savannah Harbor-Interstate 16 Corridor Joint Development Authority including business development trips, new website, materials and video.

Total net surplus is estimated to be $1.7 million for 2016, $1.1 million higher than budgeted.