Everyone wants to have a voice in the future of their community and the Cape Coral Economic Development office wants to hear yours! Please click on a link below to participate in a survey.
                          For Workers
                          For Employers

Through special funding this year, the City Council has approved major Economic Development research projects that will guide the development of a new 5-year business development plan -- one that will help many existing businesses to grow, and also help the city attract new companies that provide higher paying jobs in new business sectors.
The research is being conducted in the next few weeks by contractors who were selected through the City's RFP process. They will be reaching into the community -- with telephone calls, internet questionnaires, and one-on-one meetings -- to learn from businesses and workers what they think would be best for our City.

We encourage you to participate in all of these research activities. Sometimes the best ideas come from the least expected sources.  If you are called, please give us your thoughts. If you are invited to a meeting, take the opportunity to attend.  And above all, please log-on and answer the on-line surveys. Most of the research projects are truly global -- with information to be gathered from other states and even other nations. But our City's input is essential.

Everyone wants to know that the survey they're taking is genuine and that their answers will be confidential. Here is a list of the research projects that will be taking place in the upcoming weeks, as well as the companies conducting the studies.  All responses are confidential:
Target Industry Study -- to identify specific kinds of businesses that are the best fit for our community. -- ICF International

Business Opportunities Survey

Workforce Study – what kinds of work do our workers do, where and is it the type of job they are best qualified to do?  What kinds of workers are area employers seeking? -- Moran, Stahl & Boyer.

Workforce Study Survey

Venture Capital Networks -- to develop a strategy for building a robust technology venture capital network right here in Cape Coral -- EvalueServe.

Pre-Platted Land Strategies -- to identify new strategies to help overcome the serious challenges of commercial land assembly in our pre-platted community -- EvalueServe.