By EDCUtah

After visiting the production set for the film "John Carter of Mars" in Moab with Governor Gary Herbert, Utah Film Commission Director Marshall Moore stopped at Hollow Mountain Gas & Grocery in the remote hamlet of Hanksville to put gas in his tank. As cashier Celeste Sellers took his money she noticed the Utah Film Commission logo on his shirt and wanted to shake his hand.

Sellers told Moore she wanted to thank him that "John Carter of Mars" was being filmed in Utah. Her son needed a job and was hired to work security on the set.

By EDCUtah

Economists predict some 103,000 individuals will enter the Utah workforce over the next decade, and Utah will need an economic revival robust enough to create 168,863 new jobs to meet the demands of the new workforce, plus restore the jobs lost during the current recession.

By EDCUtah

Like most other industry sectors, Utah's financial services industry was hit hard by the recession. Six financial institutions are now extinct -- one of them had a 100-year history in the state -- and employment in the sector has declined steadily through February 2010.

By EDCUtah

It is safe to say that no one knows the Economic Development Corporation of Utah, its mission, or its investors from the public sector better than Lynn Pett, who retired June 30 after serving 20 years as government relations director for the organization.

By EDCUtah

What percentage of Utah's workforce is green? And what industrial or occupational sectors have the highest number of green jobs?

By EDCUtah

It must have appeared a bit strange when Jay Weyland walked across Tooele Army Depot (TEAD) holding up a six-foot pole with an anemometer fastened to the top of it.

By EDCUtah

Economic development is generally serious business, but every year a friendly golf competition is worked into the mix as EDCUtah investors and friends compete for prizes and bragging rights during the annual Golf for Grants Tournament.

By EDCUtah

The massive, 24-mile rebuild of Interstate 15 now underway in Utah County is the single largest road construction project in the state's history. It's also an engine of economic development that is churning out jobs.