Business View Civil & Municipal Apr-2023

173 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 4 AMESBURY, MA our local economic development ecosystem.” Over the past several months, Amesbury has been working with Munters to expand its facility to 420,000 square feet and with it, add an additional 70-100 jobs to the city. “Given its manufacturing, it’s helping us diversify our tax base, and it’s expanding, we’re excited to be part of their expansion to a new space through both our support from staff in their developmental review process, but also through granting them a tax increment finance incentive (TIF),” Cleveland says. Amesbury has to be calculated in how it invites new business and expands existing ones because of its limited area, so to have two new opportunities on the docket at once is exciting, Gove says. “We’re a small city. We don’t have a lot of room for growth,” she says. “To see a parcel