Economic Development Council

Derek Santos, Exec. Director of the New Bedford Economic Development Council, says the City is now requesting proposals for the Advanced Manufacturing Campus.

Derek Santos outlines the work his agency is doing, and how long businesses may have to live under the pandemic protocols.

The Mass. Secretary of Housing and Economic Development visited New Bedford on Thursday. Secretary Jay Ash toured the State Pier with Mayor Mitchell and served as the keynote speaker at the Annual Meeting of the New Bedford Economic Development Council...

More than 50 potential developers toured New Bedford on Thursday, getting a look at vacant property and buildings as possible sites for future economic development..... Economic Development Council Director Derek Santos and his staff led bus tours throughout the city, visting sites in the North End, South End, Downtown and along the Waterfront...

The U.S. Commerce Department's Economic Development Administration delivers a $200,000 planning grant to the New Bedford Economic Development Council. The announcement was made Wednesday at the Ferry Terminal on the State Pier. Undersecretary Matt Erskine says the planning grant will focus on the waterfront...

WJAR/Channel 10 in Providence says it has leased space in Downtown New Bedford to open a news bureau there.  According to a press release from the Mayor's Office, the bureau will be located in the former Standard Times building on Pleasant Street.  ...

Mayor Jon Mitchell is turning to someone he knows well, to develop the offshore wind industry in New Bedford.  The Mayor announced Tuesday, he was naming Economic Development chief Matt Morrissey to head the New Bedford Wind Energy Center, the entity created by the city to oversee offshore wind-related development...