The final report of the Fairfield Existing Business Initiative has been released. Over the course of six month, FEDA Board members Pat Doyle, Craig Foss, Dave Reiff, Lori Schaefer and FEDA Executive Director Brent Willett conducted surveys and interviews with 41 of Fairfield's top employers.  The result is the most comprehensive view of the Fairfield economy- through the lens of Fairfield employers- ever assembled.

The report, dated February 28, 2009, is now in a special early-release period.

Get the 24-page, full-color report here.  For quicker downloads or printing, we suggest this version, which contains less color.  

Fairfield employer Creative Edge Master Shop has received more than $220,000 in incentives and low-interest loans to expand its operations and add 22 new jobs in Fairfield.  FEDA partnered with the company to help assemble the funding package which leverages every $2.26 in company investment for every dollar of incentives.  Get all the details here.

Welcome. The Fairfield Economic Development Association has just launched GrowFairfield.com a first-of-its-kind Web site designed to provide essential real-time business-critical information to existing Fairfield businesses and prospects alike. The site includes labor, tax, transportation, incentives, funding and available commercial real estate information as well as community history, municipal services, membership information and more. We've also included blogging, RSS and video capabilities to keep the site current and growing. And a lot more.

This site just became the single most important economic development tool in our toolbox, and we invite you to check it out.

FAIRFIELD, (Iowa) - Frank Fritz, Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary/Treasurer of Dexter Apache Holdings, Inc. and Jodi Kerr, Firm Principal at TD&T Financial Group, have been appointed position of Director on the Board of Directors of the Fairfield Economic Development Association, Inc. (FEDA).  The two assume the 3-year directorships and replace the retiring Royse Huff and Ross Walker.

Fritz, born in Washington, Iowa assumes a spot on the FEDA Board in his 14^th year with Dexter.  A Coe College graduate, Fritz grew up on a small family farm near the Pleasant Plain and Brighton area.  He relocated to Fairfield in 1994 following 13 years as a staff accountant at McGladrey & Pullen in Cedar Rapids and a year as CFO of Johnson Gas Appliance Company. 

Fritz is a member of the First National Bank of Fairfield, Iowa Board of Directors and is a former director of the Fairfield Evergreen Cemetery, Fairfield Golf & Country Club and the Iowa Chapter of the ESOP Association.  He is a member of the St. Mary's Catholic Church, Fairfield Golf & Country Club, and Fairfield Elks Lodge.  He and his wife, Julie, are the parents of a daughter, Samantha, 10.