Steve Yost | Source | President at North Carolina's Southeast
Steve Yost
Steve has been President of North Carolina’s Southeast since 2009. Since 1994, he has led economic development strategies at the local, state, and regional levels, including as Executive Director of the Columbus County Economic Development Commission, Sr. Developer and Regional Manager for the NC Dept. of Commerce southeast region, and as Marketing Manager for North Carolina’s Southeast. He has been a leader in marketing, strategic planning, product development, fundraising, workforce development, and the formation of public-private partnerships.
He earned a B.A. in Political Science from Appalachian State University, and an M.P.A. from the University of North Carolina. He is a Certified Economic and Community Developer, and in 2017 served as President of the North Carolina Economic Development Association.
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Community close up: Southeastern N.C. boasts mountains and beaches — and a network of industrial settings. - Business North Carolina
Southeastern North Carolina’s 20-county region stretches from picturesque trails and lakes to more than 100 miles of Atlantic Ocean shoreline
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Companies expanding to southeastern North Carolina featured in list of top 25 job enriched projects; Cumberland County expansion project featured | BizFayetteville
Five projects within southeastern North Carolina made Business North Carolina’s list of the top 25 job-rich economic development projects announced last year, including a project generated by North Carolina’s Southeast.“Our region is proving to be a cost-effective area for growing companies,” said Steve Yost, president of North Carolina’s Southeast in a press release. “We want to congratulate The Duplin Economic Development Commission, Wilmington Business Development, Fayetteville-Cumberland County Economic DevelopmentCorporation, and the Scotland County Economic Development Corporation for their efforts in working with the companies and projects.”The projects involve four counties: Duplin County, New Hanover County, Scotland County and Cumberland County. Three of the five projects that made the list were in the top 10.For Cumberland County’s recognition, Home construction company NVR is investing $33.9 million into a project partly in Cumberland County and creating 261 jobs as it expands. Co-located in Cleveland County since 2002, the project will build a...
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‘Strong human capital and innovation:’ How Bladen County has created plans for future development
Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of stories that provide an overview of the economies of Bladen, Columbus, Robeson, and Scotland counties in southeastern North Carolina. Bladen County has been trying to develop its economy through workforce training, revitalization projects, and partnerships with nonprofit real estate organizations. These efforts have been working and have brought in both large companies and the average …Read more
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“What [Cumberland County] has done is leverage up I-95 and some other assets, and the military, to really build up product development,” Yost says, “and the private sector has noticed. They had some shell and spec buildings fully developed by private developers, and that’s the ideal way to do it. When the private sector sees opportunity and comes in and does the investment.”
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“It’s our mission to help create opportunities for our counties to gain new jobs, new private investment,. There’s a lot that goes into that. Our main ingredient in regards to our success and capabilities is collaboration, and we have many moving parts to make our organization work, many partners in the public and private sectors.”
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“From a quality-of-life perspective, we have a lot of diversity. If someone wants a coastal environment, we have those towns and beaches. Then there’s a lot of ambiance in our rural areas, and off to the very west, you have the oldest mountain chain in North America.”
