Employment, Businesses, and Tourism Introduction

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Oro Valley, with its talented and well-educated workforce, attracts and supports a diverse blend of businesses. This dynamic environment fosters job creation and enhances the local economy. Our community is thriving in key sectors such as healthcare, bioscience, and high-tech industries. Additionally, tourism, retail, education, and service industries play a significant role in our economic landscape.

Resident priorities that shaped this part of the Plan include:

  • Having options to live, work, and play. Residents emphasized wanting more restaurants, entertainment, and places to gather.
  • Attracting and retaining a healthy workforce and diverse industries.
  • Supporting entrepreneurs and local or small businesses.

The guiding principle provides the foundation for building goals, policies, and actions. It represents the desires of our community.

Grow the number of high-quality employment opportunities.

  • Diversify the type of industries and job opportunities.
  • Attract employers who offer high-paying jobs.
  • Attract and retain workers by promoting quality schools, housing, parks, and things to do.
  • Foster entrepreneurship.
Foster a broad range of shopping, entertainment, events, and dining options.
  • Fill empty storefronts and redevelop existing buildings.
  • Increase the customer base to retain and attract new businesses.
  • Attract and support more local businesses.
  • Increase tourism to support Oro Valley’s resorts, hotels, and businesses.
  • Expand research and development, bioscience, and emerging tech industries.


Click on the images below to see the policies and specific actions the Town will take to achieve each goal.

People working in a lab




Goal W: EMPLOYERS AND WORKFORCE
Foster a robust local economy and job market that provides quality employment, builds on Oro Valley's assets, and encourages responsible growth and investment.

Goal X: BUSINESS ATTRACTION AND RETENTION
Encourage a wide range of services, entertainment, shopping, and dining options.




Pool at a resort




Goal Y: TOURISM
Establish Oro Valley as a tourist destination to enhance local economic stability.






Relationship to Other Goals in the Plan

The topics in this section are interrelated with other aspects of the Plan, in the same way they are connected in our lives. The following table depicts the overlap between this chapter's goals (and associated policies and actions) and other goals.

Please click on the links below to read the related goals, policies, and actions.

Employment, Business, and Tourism Goals:
Related Goals in other Chapters:
Goal W: EMPLOYERS AND WORKFORCE


Goal C: INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY
Goal T: WATER RESOURCE PLANNING
Goal CC: HOUSING VARIETY
Goal EE: MIXED USE
Goal GG: SMART GROWTH
Goal X: BUSINESS ATTRACTION AND RETENTION


Goal C: INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY
Goal CC: HOUSING VARIETY
Goal EE: MIXED USE
Goal GG: SMART GROWTH
Goal Y: TOURISM


Goal G: ARTS AND CULTURE
Goal II: GATHERING SPACES

If you are viewing this website on a mobile device, please use full-screen mode (landscape).


Oro Valley, with its talented and well-educated workforce, attracts and supports a diverse blend of businesses. This dynamic environment fosters job creation and enhances the local economy. Our community is thriving in key sectors such as healthcare, bioscience, and high-tech industries. Additionally, tourism, retail, education, and service industries play a significant role in our economic landscape.

Resident priorities that shaped this part of the Plan include:

  • Having options to live, work, and play. Residents emphasized wanting more restaurants, entertainment, and places to gather.
  • Attracting and retaining a healthy workforce and diverse industries.
  • Supporting entrepreneurs and local or small businesses.

The guiding principle provides the foundation for building goals, policies, and actions. It represents the desires of our community.

Grow the number of high-quality employment opportunities.

  • Diversify the type of industries and job opportunities.
  • Attract employers who offer high-paying jobs.
  • Attract and retain workers by promoting quality schools, housing, parks, and things to do.
  • Foster entrepreneurship.
Foster a broad range of shopping, entertainment, events, and dining options.
  • Fill empty storefronts and redevelop existing buildings.
  • Increase the customer base to retain and attract new businesses.
  • Attract and support more local businesses.
  • Increase tourism to support Oro Valley’s resorts, hotels, and businesses.
  • Expand research and development, bioscience, and emerging tech industries.


Click on the images below to see the policies and specific actions the Town will take to achieve each goal.

People working in a lab




Goal W: EMPLOYERS AND WORKFORCE
Foster a robust local economy and job market that provides quality employment, builds on Oro Valley's assets, and encourages responsible growth and investment.

Goal X: BUSINESS ATTRACTION AND RETENTION
Encourage a wide range of services, entertainment, shopping, and dining options.




Pool at a resort




Goal Y: TOURISM
Establish Oro Valley as a tourist destination to enhance local economic stability.






Relationship to Other Goals in the Plan

The topics in this section are interrelated with other aspects of the Plan, in the same way they are connected in our lives. The following table depicts the overlap between this chapter's goals (and associated policies and actions) and other goals.

Please click on the links below to read the related goals, policies, and actions.

Employment, Business, and Tourism Goals:
Related Goals in other Chapters:
Goal W: EMPLOYERS AND WORKFORCE


Goal C: INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY
Goal T: WATER RESOURCE PLANNING
Goal CC: HOUSING VARIETY
Goal EE: MIXED USE
Goal GG: SMART GROWTH
Goal X: BUSINESS ATTRACTION AND RETENTION


Goal C: INTERGENERATIONAL COMMUNITY
Goal CC: HOUSING VARIETY
Goal EE: MIXED USE
Goal GG: SMART GROWTH
Goal Y: TOURISM


Goal G: ARTS AND CULTURE
Goal II: GATHERING SPACES

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