Attracting advanced manufacturing and industrial investment requires more than marketing your local sites and incentives. Companies evaluating new locations ultimately need clear answers to a few critical questions:
- Can the facility actually be built here?
- How much will it cost?
- How long will it take to become operational?
ARCO Design/Build helps answer those questions early in the process.
Economic Development Support
Why ARCO
As one of the nation’s largest design-build construction firms, ARCO brings real-world facility development expertise into the economic development process. Backed by the ARCO enterprise’s 50+ offices and 7,500+ completed projects, we have a vast network of clients and data-driven insights that help economic development teams, site selectors, and manufacturers move forward with greater clarity, reduced risk, and faster project execution.
Who We Work With
Economic development projects involve a wide network of stakeholders. ARCO collaborates closely with:
- Economic development organizations preparing sites and attracting investment
- Site selection consultants advising companies on location strategy
- Manufacturing and industrial companies evaluating new facilities
Our goal is simple: help projects move from concept to construction with confidence.
Early Engagement Improves Project Success
By engaging us early in the process, communities and project stakeholders gain a reliable partner who can quickly translate business requirements into real, buildable solutions. From validating site feasibility and infrastructure capacity to establishing reliable budgets and timelines, ARCO helps eliminate uncertainty before it becomes costly.
How We Help
Economic Development Organizations
Economic developers work to position their regions as competitive locations for investment. ARCO strengthens that effort by helping validate site readiness and project feasibility before prospects commit.
Our team helps communities:
- Evaluate site constructability and infrastructure requirements
- Provide credible cost and schedule expectations for prospects
- Align site capabilities with the needs of target industries
- Improve confidence among prospects and site selection advisors
When companies know a facility can be delivered reliably, locations become far more competitive.
Site Selection Consultants
Site selectors must recommend locations that can support complex industrial operations while protecting their clients’ capital investment.
ARCO provides early insight into the realities of building in each location, including:
- Technical feasibility and infrastructure capacity
- Market-informed construction cost estimates
- Realistic development schedules
- Identification of risks that could impact project success
This helps site selectors recommend locations with greater technical and financial confidence.
Manufacturing & Industrial Companies
For companies, the priority is clear: a production-ready facility delivered on time, on budget, and optimized for operational success.
ARCO’s integrated design-build model supports that goal by providing:
- Early cost and schedule clarity
- No gaps between designer and builder – one team, one point of accountability, lower risk
- Facilities designed around production workflows that achieve business plan outcomes
- A single point of accountability for design and construction
- Faster timelines to operational readiness
Turning Economic Development Potential into Reality
Successful economic development initiatives require alignment between vision, planning, and execution. By engaging early, ARCO helps ensure projects move forward with the certainty needed to attract investment and deliver successful facilities.
