The City of Centralia has retained the Growth Services Group (GSG), a national workforce intelligence and consulting firm, to conduct a Hotel Feasibility Study for the community. This Market Study provides a demographic and economic overview of the subject area to determine the overall feasibility of a new greenfield hotel development. The purpose of this Market Study is to estimate the perceived demand and to estimate financial performance of a new hotel in Centralia, Missou

Annie Fennewald to Join Growth Services Group I am pleased to announce that Annie Fennewald is joining the team at Growth Services Group (GSG). Annie brings over 10 years of analytical experience and holds a Master’s of Business Administration in Marketing Analytics from the University of Missouri and a BA in Economics from Elon University. Annie is a life-long lover of data and strategy in both her professional and personal life. She is an avid strategic board gamer with the

Monroe County has more than 66,200 residents available for employment, with their average age being 42 and 76.5 percent of them having at least some college education. These and other data were gleaned from a local labor survey arranged by the Monroe County Business Development Corp. (BDC) to identify the available labor force in the county. Charlene Page, vice president of business development for the BDC, gave a presentation on results of the survey at the Big Event last we

Have you checked your local and regional “labor supply” to fill those job openings? Edmund “Ed” A. Martin, Labor Market Researcher and Analyst Recently, the Labor Department reported record job openings for the U.S. to be 5.75 million in July 2015. In a separate news release the Labor Department stated that the participation rate of 62.5 percent is the lowest in four decades. So where is the potential labor supply for these record job openings? Many employers across the count