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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.
Our 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 action. 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 customer base to retain and attract new businesses
Attract and support more local businesses
Increase tourism to support OV’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.
Foster a robust local economy and job market that provides quality employment, builds on Oro Valley's assets, and encourages responsible growth and investment.
Encourage a wide range of services, entertainment, shopping, and dining options.
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.
Please read the information below then provide your comments at the bottom of this page by October 31, 2025.
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.
Our 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 action. 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 customer base to retain and attract new businesses
Attract and support more local businesses
Increase tourism to support OV’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.
Foster a robust local economy and job market that provides quality employment, builds on Oro Valley's assets, and encourages responsible growth and investment.
Encourage a wide range of services, entertainment, shopping, and dining options.
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.
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