SERVING GALVESTON ISLAND SINCE 1999

Expanding and Diversifying Galveston's Employment & Tax Bases

SAVE THE DATE

for GEDP’s 12th Annual Economic Summit:

October 16, 2024

Upcoming

Construction Consortium March 27, 5-7pm, hosted by Tramonte Realty at Mario’s Seawall Italian Restaurant.

The Galveston Construction Consortium is a cohesive network of construction professionals centered around Galveston. The Consortium fosters meaningful connections and collaborations among members, ensuring that in times of crisis, local expertise and resources are readily available and utilized.

The GEDP supports existing and new businesses by providing the infrastructure to be globally competitive.

Since 1999, through the public private membership base of the GEDP, assistance has been provided including demographic and socioeconomic information, utilization of a comprehensive Geographic Information System (GIS) for project development activities, maintenance of an information clearinghouse and economic climate assessments that have been made available to those seeking to make Galveston a better place.

Priority areas of investment include those projects capable of expanding or enhancing the core industries for the Galveston economic base: Maritime, Tourism, Education, Healthcare, and Emerging Technologies.

Maximizing Galveston’s human, natural, and financial resources, the GEDP remains committed to facilitating quality projects that work to expand Galveston’s employment and tax bases. Galveston is an island of opportunity and the GEDP looks forward to working with you on future projects.

“Collaborative efforts are a keystone for facilitating economic development benefitting the whole community.”

Dr. Myles Shelton
Executive Committee Chair

GEDP Developer Profile 2023

In conjunction with our Annual Economic Development Summit, the GEDP publishes a Developer Profile. This publication provides detailed demographic and statistical information for Galveston and each of its major industry sectors, as well as highlights of future, current, and recently completed projects and developments.

Resources | Building Resilient Businesses

The GEDP developed a Business Continuity Resource Guide for the Galveston business community to utilize as part of their Disaster Toolkit.

This guidebook will outline what actions may be taken to minimize the disruptive effects of a disaster on operations, understand the differing roles and responsibilities of government and business owners in private sector disaster recovery and provide information needed to develop a comprehensive business disaster continuity plan.