Support & Incentives
Our role is to leverage resources to maintain and enhance our City’s economic health. To that end, our team manages a number of economic development incentive programs. How can we help you?
City Incentives
Primary Jobs Incentive
Government Property Lease Excise Tax
Site-Specific Sales Tax Incentive
Global Economic Development District
Visual Improvement Program
Façade and sign grants for small businesses.
Economic & Workforce Development + Special Events Grants

Community Investment Corporation
The mission of Community Investment Corporation is to secure strategic investments in our communities that serve a public purpose, enhance employment opportunities and leverage its capital and capacity to help small businesses and nonprofit organizations thrive and succeed.

Goodwill of Southern Arizona
Goodwill® Industries of Southern Arizona is dedicated to the idea of strengthening families and our community through the POWER OF WORK! We provide jobs and training for people to gain skills and achieve independence.

Growth Partners Arizona
The mission of Growth Partners Arizona is to attract and provide resources to nonprofits and small businesses through loans and technical assistance to enhance and empower underserved communities throughout Arizona.

Job Path
JobPath’s mission is to improve the economic status of underserved adults, by removing barriers to educational achievement, so that they can lead healthier and more prosperous lives.

Literacy Connects
From birth through adulthood, Literacy Connects’ programs offer opportunities for learners of all ages to realize their potential — at school and in the workplace, as parents, as consumers and as participants in the life of our community.

Startup Tucson
Startup Tucson works to transform the region’s economy through entrepreneurship and innovation. We imagine a Tucson that is known to entrepreneurs and startups nationwide as an ideal place to start and grow a business.

City of Gastronomy
The Tucson City of Gastronomy nonprofit organization formed in December 2016 to manage the UNESCO City of Gastronomy designation of Tucson and its Southern Arizona foodshed. Its mission is to grow a sustainable desert community by supporting our creative food cultures.

Tucson Clean & Beautiful
The purpose of Tucson Clean & Beautiful, Inc. is to preserve and improve our environment, conserve natural resources, and enhance the quality of life in the City of Tucson and eastern Pima County.

YWCA Southern Arizona
The mission of YWCA Southern Arizona is eliminating racism, empowering women and promoting peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.

DUSK Music Festival
DUSK Music Festival is an annual two-day music, culinary and art festival held in downtown Tucson, featuring a diverse lineup of local, regional and national artists, food, craft beer and cocktails, backyard games, an arcade, city-wide art installations, and Before and After DUSK concerts.

Living Streets Alliance
The mission of Living Streets Alliance is to advocate for a thriving Tucson by creating great streets for all of us. We envision streets as living public spaces that connect people to places and to each other.

Southwest Folklife Alliance
The mission of the Southwest Folklife Alliance is to build more equitable and vibrant communities by celebrating the everyday expressions of culture, heritage and diversity in the greater Southwest.

TENWEST Impact Festival
TENWEST Impact Festival helps the curious and the impassioned solve the great challenges facing our community by inspiring ideas and facilitating connections that empower them to act.

Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation
The Tucson Historic Preservation Foundation has been working to save Tucson’s heritage and cultural resources since March 1984, advocating and strategizing to protect the places that make Tucson unique.

Barbea Williams Performing Company
The mission of Barbea Williams Performing Company is to teach, cultivate, promote, foster and develop within the greater Tucson community, state of Arizona and global society an appreciation, understanding, and love of the performing, literary and visual arts.

Perimeter Bicycling Association
Perimeter Bicycling Association of America produces bicycling events for community, charity and wellness. El Tour de Tucson is Perimeter Bicycling’s flagship event and one of the largest bicycling events in America.

Tucson International Mariachi Conference
The mission of the Tucson International Mariachi Conference is to promote awareness and foster traditional values of Mariachi music and Baile Folklórico through educational activities that increase knowledge, artistic and technical experience, cultural identity, and pride in our youth and community.