Business Plus enables the community to provide financial support to both existing and new business and industries for plant and equipment investment based on additions to the local workforce. Business Plus is for existing business retention and expansion, new business attraction and recruitment, and workforce preparedness.

In September 2002, Business Plus III began as a seamless fundraising extension effort of Business Plus II, a similar five-year operation that raised $1.6 million and created more than 900 jobs in the area. Like its predecessors, Business Plus will continue to focus on job development, business retention, expansion, attraction and recruitment. Business Plus is led and managed by an executive director and board members representing southern Idaho, including Twin Falls, Jerome, Buhl, Gooding, Rupert, and Burley. Business Plus is a collaborative effort all Chambers of Commerce, the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization (SIEDO), county economic development organizations, the College of Southern Idaho as well as private sectors throughout the region.

• An incentive plan is in place to encourage existing businesses and industries to expand their operations locally and add additional employees.
• Business Plus also has a focused plan to provide incentives to select businesses and industries to relocate their operation to the Twin Falls area
• Over the past dozen years, the available workforce in southern Idaho has encouraged new diversity in the mix of business and industry and associated new job skills. The College of Southern Idaho and ARTEC (see Training section) provide courses and training that will provide a smooth transition into this new technology. And graduates are encouraged to remain in the Magic Valley and make up the labor pool for local business and for industries relocating to the area. Business Plus enhances the CSI and Public Schools alliance through it's own workforce development plan.

http://www.business-plus.org/