Center for Economic Development

The Center for Economic Development (CED) is a research and community-oriented technical assistance center.

Housed in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning, the CED fits well with the Department's long tradition of outreach to Massachusetts' cities and towns. As a case in point, its faculty and students have worked on economic development issues in more than 200 cities and towns in the past ten years. As well, its faculty has specializations that include industrial development, retail/commercial development, tourism, marketing, employment training, quantitative analysis and data analysis.