Cover of the Newberg Economic Development Strategy

The updated 2019 Newberg Economic Development Strategy is now available. 

The original 2016 Newberg Economic Development Strategy was prepared through collaboration of the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce, City of Newberg, Newberg Downtown Coalition, Austin Industries, George Fox University, the finance and development community and input from over sixty local, regional and statewide organizations created the strategy. The 2019 update includes information from the A NewBERG community visioning program and brought in two additional key partners with the Strategic Economic Development COrporation (SEDCOR) and Visit Newberg. The Strategy has five pillars of activity: Industrial Sector, Commercial Sector, Business Development & Workforce, Downtown Newberg, and Tourism & Hospitality. There are five strategies for the Industrial Sector, three strategies for the Commercial Sector, eight strategies for Business Development & Workforce, seven strategies for Downtown Newberg, and four strategies for Tourism and Hospitality. Each strategy has identified actions and short, medium and long-term timelines for implementation of the actions.