Doing Business

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Doing business in West Central Wisconsin and particularly Polk County is a pleasure.

When you live in our region of West Central Wisconsin, you’re automatically entitled to all of the wonderful fringe benefits our region offers.  Natural beauty, culture, affordability, great career opportunities, excellent education, high quality health care, small town security, and an endless list of activities.

Here the good life takes up permanent residency.

The regions outstanding livability also gives you leverage to attract and retain quality employees.  They’ll love living here. And when they have free time, there’s never a lack of activities any time of year.

Polk County has many tangible or hard assets to offer prospective businesses and industries.  Another of the county’s strengths are the intangibles or soft assets available.

For more available property information, please Contact the Polk County EDC.

Incentive Programs

Downtown Façade Loan Program

The Downtown Facade Loan  Program provides financial assistance to encourage property and business owners in core downtowns to revitalize downtown commercial buildings within towns, cities, and villages of West Central Wisconsin. Eligible activities include facade renovation, exterior lighting, doors, graphics, signage, windows, and awnings, other facade or landscape improvements.  Applicants must provide acceptable facade design plans that comply with approved general design guidelines based on the National Trust or suitable design guidelines prepared and adopted by local governments.

EDA Revolving Loan Fund Program

The Economic Development Administration (EDA) Loan Fund has been managed by the RBF, Inc. since 1995.  The program provides low-interest loan funds to expanding businesses that are creating jobs and making a capital investment. 

Micro Loan Fund Program

The Micro Loan Fund Program provides small loans to startup, newly established, or growing small businesses. The key objective is to assist business owners, who have traditionally had difficulty  assessing debt financing, by affording them another alternative to obtaining credit.  Eligible activities include new working capital, inventory purchases and supplies, acquisition of equipment, machinery, furniture and fixtures, leasehold improvements, building renovation and rehabilitation, real estate acquisition, natural disaster recovery. 

Technology Enterprise Fund (TEF)

Companies locating, or agreeing to locate, their primary operation to Barron, Chippewa, Clark, Dunn, Eau Claire, Polk, or St. Croix County, may be eligible for TEF Funds – a revolving loan fund that provides creative financing to new and emerging technology companies. The goal of the program is to leverage private investment dollars and enhance sustainable economic development opportunities within the region.Eligible technologies include any business engaged in the activities of research, development or manufacturing of advanced products or materials for use in factory automation, biotechnology, chemicals, computer hardware, computer software, and similar technologies.

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