Economic Development Consulting

Corporate Executive Services

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Economic Development is a Global Business today... your success is limited to your organization's knowledge of doing what is necessary to achieve recognition for your results and such impact that there is no doubt of your effectiveness at creating economic development results. Successful economic development leaders know how to leverage and work with outside experts to achieve competitive advantages for their communities, regions and state.

Don A. Holbrook is available as an economic development consultant through his partnership with The Vercitas Group.

Vercitas knows the Art of the Deal Today is about finding the right location and locale that will your globally oriented pressures to remain and sustain a competitive business enterprise. Developing the right public private partnership with your best suited community can create a winning business climate for businesses. Our site location services give corporate executives and business owners the solutions to make their businesses highly successful in today’s economy. We can assist from start to finish on your next business location decision.

Vercitas takes the worry and guessing out of your next business expansion, start-up or relocation decision. Vercitas cuts the red tape when negotiating with local and state
governments for their clients incentives and business capitalization assistance in deals... to reach Deal Equilibrium.

Vercitas and their affordable performance-based model take the worry and risk out of such considerations by providing start-to-finish turnkey solutions. They include:

• site location analysis
• business climate and taxation analysis
• business incentives negotiations
• workforce development strategies

Vercitas develops the best financial model to support your financial considerations and reduce risks. This entire process is done in complete confidentiality so your company’s reputation is guarded until the appropriate time to make the decision.

Vercitas uses a 4-step process to identify and then recommend a strategy to finalize the best solutions for your business. Our 4-step process minimizes clients expenses and maximizes financial windfalls. Our performance-based fees allow our clients to defer the majority of site location expenses until the solutions are finalized and agreed to by the clients selected locales.

Contact Don Holbrook to request a formal proposal.

Economic Development Services

At Vercitas Don Holbrook, CEcD has created a core bundle of Economic Development Services that include the following:

1. Incentive Strategies Custom Designed for Business Attraction & Retention
Designs public supported justifiable Incentives that create a business climate for business attraction to flourish.

2. Community Destination Development & Image Branding Projects
These projects are oriented towards creating tourism and visitor marketing that will draw visitors to your locale and create robust visitor and convention income for your communities.

3. Economic Development Strategic Planning
Our team focuses on the development of a balanced economic development strategy that is realistic to both market conditions and the desired goals and objectives of the
economic development organization and their community leaders.

4. Capital Formation Strategies
Economic Development organizations need sustainable pools of monies for organizational operations and special projects. Vercitas can help you create:

• revolving loan pools
• redevelopment funds
• business attraction opportunity funds
• entrepreneurial & incubation funding
• industry park development capital

Contact Don Holbrook to request a formal proposal.

"Don Holbrook stands tall at the forefront of economic development worldwide. Don combines creativity, commitment and deal-closing savvy in unprecedented ways. My development projects went from hazy visions to billion-dollar realities under Don's innovative genius. Like a chess grandmaster, Don sees the endgame long before others, and has developed unique strategies to close the largest and most challenging of development deals."
- Don Lessem, Founder, The EarthQuest Institute

“Don has been an integral part of our expansion into Arizona, representing the state on our Board of Directors and serving on our Arizona Loan Committee. His commitment and expertise has led to our success in the Arizona market resulting in more small businesses successfully expanding and creating jobs in their Arizona communities.”
- Kurt Chilcott, President & CEO, CDC Small Business Finance

"Don Holbrook has demonstrated an acute ability to visualize future economic development trends. He is an excellent task manager which resolves issues expeditiously and also takes projects beyond the original scope resulting in exponential job growth impact and community benefit. He is a fellow peer in the economic development arena in which I have the utmost respect and confidence.
- Frank F. McCrady, President/CEO, East Montgomery County Improvement District