FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE
WCEDC provides a range of financial programs designed to support business growth throughout Warren County. Through a strong network of local and regional partners, we help connect businesses with a wide variety of funding opportunities. This network starts with Warren County’s trusted banking institutions and expands to include resources from organizations such as USDA Rural Development, the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Small Business Development Center (SBDC), and more.
Because funding opportunities evolve each year and are often tailored to the unique scope of each project, we encourage you to reach out. Let’s talk about your goals and explore the best financing options available to help bring your vision to life.
WCEDC BUSINESS PROGRAMS
Warren County Economic Development offers a revolving loan fund as gap financing for small and emerging Warren County businesses. LEARN MORE
This contest is for existing small business who are looking to grow and those who are looking to start-up a business within Warren County. A total of $20,000 is awarded annually to 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners in two categories: Start-Up Businesses or Existing Businesses. LEARN MORE
County-Wide Gift Certificates help promote and support local businesses in Warren County. Spend them like cash, deposit them like a check. Good at all Warren County Businesses for goods and services. If you would like to order these certificates, order ahead and pick up at our office. ORDER TODAY
WCEDC assists interested parties with their site certification efforts. The Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Certified Site Program assists businesses that are looking to build new facilities or are searching for sites suitable for their development purposes with a high degree of due diligence and that are shovel ready and project ready. Certified sites fill the demand for project-ready industrial sites. For assistance with your certified site, contact us to discuss this process.
Warren County Economic Development works in partnership with the communities within Warren County to support veterans. WCEDC and partner communities provide a series of incentives and assistance programs that are unique to veterans who either currently reside in Warren County, or veterans seeking to call Warren County communities home for residence and/or business ventures. ‘Home Base Iowa’ and the communities within Warren County to provide comprehensive resources to fit veteran’s needs. VIEW ALL VETERANS PROGRAMS
Iowa communities have two tools which are most used to assist economic development – tax abatement and tax increment financing (TIF). Every Warren County community has the ability to offer an industrial tax abatement to reduce, or eliminate overall, several years of a business’s property tax liability on new tax value added. A number of Warren County communities also offer tax abatement for commercial or residential projects. CONTACT US FOR ASSISTANCE
