Forward Sheridan will be providing the Sheridan City Council a brief update of our activities on Monday July 1. Our board of directors welcomes these events to inform interested entities about our activities. Our constituency is Sheridan’s business community for the most part and Council activities and decisions can and do affect us. One Cent [...]

Governor Mark Gordon visited Sheridan to get a feel for our community economy. This was a great opportunity for some of our businesses to interact directly with the new Governor. Clearly the State of Wyoming has been very productive enabling infrastructure as well as buildings to aid our advanced manufacturing efforts. The diversity of our [...]

Forward Sheridan conducted our annual strategic planning session March 7. These sessions enable our board members to voice their concerns and provide priorities around our scope of work. We are fortunate to have board members that take the time and are engaged about our role and the efforts we make. We are driven by A3 [...]

We continue, as an organization, to make a purposeful effort to reach out, usually one on one, with our investors-stakeholders. This outreach has several specific aspects. The first and foremost is to ask what is their most pressing concern for day to day sustainability. This focuses the discussion on our current mission – what they, [...]

Forward Sheridan we often seek and receive input on pressing issues around our business community.  As an example employee recruitment, retention,  business market recruitment, housing and cyber security are the norm in recent months.  To stay focused, our FS Board of Directors annually conducts a “strategic planning” session just prior to July to address our [...]

The State of Wyoming, via the ENDOW recommendations, is forming a task force to address commercial air service throughout the State. The initial meeting is next week in Sheridan.   Sheridan County Commissioner Steve Maier is part of this task force – his presence on the task force is a huge benefit for Sheridan – we [...]

On April 26, Forward Sheridan will convene our 7th Tech Summit/Conference to be held at the Sheridan Memorial Hospital Public Meeting room downtown.   This conference will bring experts and “on the ground” users together in an informal meeting to discuss IT security/Grid Security and Block Chain technology.     What is positive about these topics – all [...]

ENDOW has identified commercial air service as critical for the business community.   Forward Sheridan and our board continues to support CAST as the community option for continued and growing air service.   The on time results and proven reliable performance are showing consumer confidence.   Renee Obermueller from Sheridan County recently reported, last week,  that our paid [...]

Wyoming State Land and Investment Board (SLIB) granted SEEDA $12,592,000 for project Enterprise on January 18, 2018. This grant is primarily focused around the construction of the physical plant for Project Enterprise in the Hi Tech Park.    In return for the building SEEDA will receive lease income over time for the use of the building. [...]

One of the messages we heard from our investor team was to focus on recruitment and look at diversity of industry. Last week we made a specific effort to visit two companies that have expressed interest in establishing a presence in Sheridan. The first question is how do we determine interest? For FS it is [...]