Funding will be made available to assist local communities with support to develop sites critical to economic development across rural Georgia. In order to remain competitive in economic development, sites across Georgia must be continuously identified, assessed, and developed.

Projects will be awarded funds on a competitive basis to sites that demonstrate an ability to address:

• Lack of available industrial sites for recruitment and retention of employment opportunities;
• The difficulty of satisfying project sites in communities or regions with high unemployment; or
• A community or regional commitment to expand and improve existing sites.

Grantees will be expected to demonstrate transformational change in rural site development. OneGeorgia funds are offered to support site development; therefore, resulting in the increase of available development ready sites in rural Georgia. Further a robust marketing strategy is required of the applicant to demonstrate local commitment to attract business and industry at an accelerated pace.

Eligibility

Units of general-purpose local government (e.g., city, county, consolidated government), as well as local, regional, and state authorities, are eligible to apply.

Further eligibility requirements can be found on the NOFA website.

How to Apply

Applicants should notify Wylly Harrison (wharrison@georgia.org), Site Development Program Manager at the Georgia Department of Economic Development, to hold an initial meeting.

A pre-application is due thirty (30) days prior to the full application deadline. The pre-application will be provided by Wylly Harrison to eligible applicants. The pre-application should be submitted via email to OGA@dca.ga.gov.

Deadline

Fiscal Year 2026 submission deadlines are as follows:

• October 10, 2025, for December/January award announcement
• April 10, 2026, for June/July award announcement

Contact

For additional information, please contact Wylly Harrison, Site Development Program Manager at the Georgia Department of Economic Development.

Wylly Harrison, Site Development Program Manager, Georgia Department of Economic Development. email:wharrison@georgia.org