SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA'S e-REGION
Offers perfect work-life balance
state for training
projects assisted by VCEDA since 1988
billion economic impact of VCEDA assisted businesses to region
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region is an economic region comprised of seven counties and one independent city in southwestern Virginia represented by the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority (VCEDA).
Why Southwest Virginia's e-Region?
Highly Qualified Workforce
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region prioritizes workforce education with STEM-focused programs, college partnerships, and tailored industry training in fields like advanced manufacturing, robotics, 3D printing, and software engineering. Students access advanced resources, ensuring a skilled workforce for today’s and tomorrow’s jobs.
Pro-Business: Low Tax
Excellent Quality of Life
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region offers a vibrant lifestyle with stunning mountain views, outdoor adventures, historic landmarks, festivals, and top-tier health care and education. From Breaks Interstate Park to artistic theaters, residents enjoy recreation, culture, and exceptional living in this scenic and dynamic region.
Latest News
VCEDA Grant to MECC Will Assist SBDC Office
RKB Enterprises, LLC Approved for VCEDA Seed Capital Grant
VCEDA Seed Capital Grant Approved for K&A Customz, LLC
Industries
A wide variety of industries call Southwest Virginia’s e-Region home due to its strategic location, qualified workforce, pro-business environment, low tax rates and a perfect work-life balance.
From advanced manufacturing to tourism to information and energy technologies and more, the e-Region is ready and waiting for your business to locate here.
ADVANCED MANUFACTURING
With a national renewed interest in Make it in the USA, Southwest Virginia’s e-Region offers manufacturers a place to start or expand in a region that has been actively diversifying and preparing for jobs of the future for many years.
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (IT)
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region’s efforts to grow and support information technology businesses began in the 1990s and has expanded ever since.
ENERGY
With active metallurgical coal mining and natural and coalbed methane gas production, the region is the energy capital of Virginia, while also becoming a home for alternative energy.
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region welcomes entrepreneurship and readily recognizes the importance of small business in a thriving economy.
TOURISM
The natural scenic beauty of Southwest Virginia is one of the primary draws for its tourism industry sector.
Transportation
Southwest Virginia’s e-Region is strategically located in southwestern Virginia, with access to serve markets in the East and Mid-America and the world’s marketplace. Interstates 77, 81, 75, 64 and 26 and excellent four-lane arteries including US 19, 23, 58, 460 and 421 enhance the region’s accessibility.
Added to that is the opening of the first miles of the Virginia Coalfields Expressway (US 121).
Photo credits and descriptions, clockwise from top: U.S. Rt. 23 at Powell Valley overlook by Belcher Images. Tallest bridge in Virginia on U.S. Rt. 460 at the Virginia/Kentucky border by Neil Wicker Aerial Photography.
Relocating to a new facility in our county brought us a much stronger internet backbone, access to a more qualified pool of job candidates, and the ability to bring our full production line under one roof. VCEDA’s team didn’t just offer us a new idea—they proposed an out-of-the-box solution.
TODD ELSWICK
President, Paul's Fan Company
