Great Falls Development Authority

Highly Engaged Employees

The Great Fall Development Authority, Inc. (GFDA) is a regional public/private EDO which focuses its efforts on the 13-county Great Falls Montana trade area, also known as Montanas Golden Triangle. Our region includes the Great Falls Montana MSA (Cascade County) and a vast rural/tribal region that extends over 44,000 square miles. Our economic deve... lopment organization works on business attraction, business retention/expansion, business start-ups, and a wide range of efforts to make our region more competitive in attracting private investment and retaining/attracting talent. We are involved in downtown revitalization, brownfield redevelopment, workforce, infrastructure, and housing, amongst other things. We are a certified Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) that provides gap and bridge financing to businesses, start-up entrepreneurs, real estate developers, and non-profits. We host a Small Business Development Center (SBDC), a Procurement Technical Assistance Center (PTAC), and a Montana Food & Ag Development Center. We provide office space for a team member of the Montana Manufacturing Extension Center. We have an affiliate SBA-certified Community Development Corporation, High Plains Financial, that we created to offer SBA 504 loans statewide. We are the developer of the Great Falls AgriTech Park, a BNSF-certified premier rail industrial park. Our newest initiative is talent attraction which we launched in January 2020. We are a private sector driven organization supported by over 120 local businesses and community organizations. We are an entrepreneurial organization that generates over 86% of our revenue. We are formed as a Montana non-profit corporation with 501(c)3 status from the IRS. We are a 509(c)(2). Our Computation of Public Support Percentage for our most recent fiscal year was 99.6%.Read More