MEGASITES & KPDI: Kentucky’s Commitment to Quality Sites
2 Apr 2026
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Corporate executives and site selection consultants know that the best economic development incentives are not the ones offered at deal-closing; they’re the ones invested into product development long before a facility site search even begins.
The Commonwealth of Kentucky understood this long before most, which is why Gov. Andy Beshear and the Kentucky General Assembly created the Kentucky Product Development Initiative (KPDI) in 2022 — a program that earmarks state dollars for local communities to use to secure and prepare shovel-ready sites for development.
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