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Project
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| Project: |
ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR WAMSUTTER COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
PLAN |
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| Location: |
Wamsutter, Wyoming |
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Client: |
BearWest
145 South 400 East
Salt Lake City, Utah 84111
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Sweetwater County
80 W. Flaming Gorge Way
Green River, WY 82935 |
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| Contact: |
Jim Carter or Rulon Dutson
and Mark Cott, Planner |
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| Year Completed: |
May 2002 |
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| Project Scope:
Sweetwater County retained BearWest,
a consulting firm providing planning, environmental and
community issue services, to develop a community development
plan for the Town of Wamsutter, a community of roughly 262
residents.
BearWest subsequently retained
Pedersen Planning Consultants to assist in the evaluation of
potential economic development opportunities for the Town of
Wamsutter. This evaluation was one of the primary
considerations underlying the recommendations associated with
the community development plan for Wamsutter.
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| This effort initially
involved informal discussions with some residents of the
community, municipal officials, local small business
entrepreneurs, as well as representatives of natural gas
exploration, production, and transmission companies. To
facilitate these discussions, PPC prepared a community
profile that briefly summarized the characteristics of the
local economy, community demographics, as well as
significant factors influencing future economic development. |
Interstate 80 along Town of Wamsutter |
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| Based upon these discussions, the
community profile, and the economic planning experience of the
firm, PPC identified three potential economic development
scenarios. These scenarios involved varied levels of natural
gas development, as well as variable levels of interstate
trucking traffic coming into the community.
A statistical model was developed
by PPC to model and compare potential employment generation,
resident population, various types of retail sales, housing
demand, visitor accommodations, and other economic indicators
for each of three development scenarios. The information
generated from the model was used to help evaluate and identify
feasible economic development opportunities in the community. |
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