Wollondilly Shire Council | provides local business people with advice directly. By getting in contact with the Economic Development Team, people can organise appointments with business specialists or a member of the team themselves. This affords them the opportunity to ask important questions, and to get the advice that is required to make the best decisions possible. The economic development team, in tandem with the BizConnect service, is also available to provide businesses with mentoring and training that can help make running their business easier and less stressful. “In general, we have found that businesses out here are humming along quite nicely,” Tate says. “But there are still challenges, and we want to help with those however we can.” That eagerness to support and collaborate with local business is one of Wollondilly Shire Council’s main points of difference when it comes to attracting investment. Another point of difference is the area’s aforementioned accessibility – running a business requires effective transportation, and Wollondilly has access to numerous transportation routes. Hume Highway, for examples, runs east of the majority of the Shire, and provides direct access to Sydney’s CBD. It also passes
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