Business View Civil and Municipal | May 2021

83 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL MAY 2021 CHESTER COUNTY , SOUTH CAROL INA Chester Office Great Falls Office 517 Ballymena Road 509 Chester Avenue P.O. Box 220 P.O. Box 472 Chester, SC 29706 Great Falls, SC 29055 (803) 385Ͳ3157 (office) (803) 482Ͳ2442 (office) (803) 581Ͳ1543 (fax) (803) 482Ͳ2292 (fax) Hours: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. After Hour Calls: (803) 385Ͳ3158 customerservice@chestergas.com www.chestergas.com www.ibhs.org Severe weather disrupts lives, displaces families, and drives financial loss. IBHS delivers top-tier science and translates it into action so we can prevent avoidable suffering, strengthen our homes and businesses, inform the insurance industry, and support thriving communities. the shelves are Chester County’s strategic development plans. The plans are produced twice a decade with funding from the Chester Development Association. This is the county’s private sector fundraising arm for economic development. “They’ve also been very instrumental in helping fund our strategic planning that we do every five years. We are in the start of our third year of our third strategic plan, and that was funded by the CDA,” Long acknowledges. “Whereas most communities, they develop these plans and then sort of stick them on a shelf, that’s not the case here. We work diligently to try to hit at least 80 percent of the recommendations in those plans by the end of year five.” Another important partnership for future economic development is with the Chester County School District, where there are plans in place for a new, county-wide career center to help bridge the gap between education and