Pickaway Progress Partnership: About P3

Pickaway Progress Partnership (P3) is the economic development agent for Pickaway County and its municipalities. P3 has three main objectives: promote and market the advantages of locating business in the County; promote a stronger business environment by facilitating retention and expansion efforts of local employers; and deliver a seamless network of economic development services and value-added programs to existing businesses, local government, and prospective companies throughout Pickaway County.

P3 is a non-profit corporation with a board of directors comprised of leaders from the public and private sectors. P3 receives its funding from a variety of investors in the public and private sectors. P3 is headed by its Economic Development Director, Nate Green.

The Circleville Pickaway Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) the predecessor of P3 was started as a committee of the Pickaway County Chamber of Commerce in 1967. Other than issuing one or two industrial revenue bonds, the CIC had very little activity until late 2004 when new bylaws were adopted and a new board was put in place. It was about this same time that the CIC became its own entity and was no longer affiliated with the Chamber. In the summer of 2005 the CIC hired its first economic development director, Nate Green. The Board of the CIC made a strategic decision in the spring of 2006 to do business as the Pickaway Progress Partnership (P3) to better reflect the organizations goals and mission.