Certified In Wisconsin Program now open for new applications

The Certified In Wisconsin Program—which designates commercial development sites as being shovel-ready, making them attractive to developers and valuable to communities—will accept new applications through May 31, 2024.

“The program provides assurance for site selectors, expanding companies, and other attraction prospects that these properties and their communities are ready for new development,” says WEDC Business Attraction Manager Sarah Bownds. “It provides the key reviews, documents, and assessments that offer certainty to developers.”

WEDC’s program, offered in partnership with the Site Selection Group (SSG), partially subsidizes the cost to communities of obtaining site certification. The program’s goals including gauging the potential for corporate investment at the site, making recommendations for the community to consider, and gathering detailed site information to effectively market the property....