Mount Pleasant Magazine March/April 2016

Mount Pleasant is oPen for Business

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Mount Pleasant

Business Development

Officer Amy Livingston,

seated, strategizes

with Tourism and

Marketing Assistant

April Adams.

Photos by Brian Sherman.

ount Pleasant is a

people magnet, attracting

newcomers from across the

country and around the globe

and growing by a rate exceeded

by only eight other cities of its

approximate size in the entire

country. There’s no question that people want to put down

roots East of the Cooper, and hous-

es, apartments and condominiums

are rising out of the ground to help them reach that goal.

Now the town is making a concerted effort to extend

its innate magnetism to the business world, in part so that

residents of the town can work as well as live and play in

Mount Pleasant.

To help attain that lofty aspiration, the town hired its

first-ever business development officer in September. Amy

Livingston’s job will encompass an array of activities, from

recruiting companies to come to Mount Pleasant to serv-

ing as a liaison between the business community and the

town’s Planning Department to putting together publica-

tions aimed at explaining exactly what start-ups and exist-

ing businesses need to do to comply with Mount Pleasant’s

rules, regulations and guidelines.

Livingston pointed out that the type and amount of as-

sistance she will provide will depend on who she is helping.

By BriAn sherMAn