Summit to Draw Together Stakeholders Across the Region
Lowell, MA – March 12, 2025 – The Northern Middlesex Council of Governments (NMCOG) has opened registration for the 2025 Greater Lowell Economic Summit. Local officials, business owners, economic development agencies, and others are invited to learn about opportunities and collaboratively develop a vision and strategies to guide the region’s economic development for the next five years.
Between 8am and 7pm on Thursday, March 20, the summit will include discussion sessions on critical topics, a networking lunch, an outdoor walking tour, and a “happy hour” discussion on regional collaboration. The summit will take place at UKG at Crosspoint Towers (900 Chelmsford St, Lowell). Participants are welcome to register for the session or sessions of their interest.
“After talking with more than fifty stakeholders across the region, we’ve learned that this is a perfect time to come together. The Lowell Innovation Network Corridor and other initiatives are creating new opportunities for collaboration,” said Jennifer Raitt, NMCOG Executive Director. “This summit will strengthen that collaboration, building our collective capacity to improve quality of life of and economic resilience for people across our region.”
In the spirit of collaboration, the five-year Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy that is being informed by the summit has been named Greater Lowell Stronger Together. It will include a vision, goals, and strategies to bolster business development, support the region’s workforce, and ensure growth benefits all types of people in the region.
For more information about Greater Lowell Stronger Together and the Economic Summit, please visit https://www.nmcog.org/ceds.
About Greater Lowell Stronger Together
Greater Lowell Stronger Together is a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) planning process. This economic development planning process is designed to enable the region to become more resilient, prosperous, and competitive. This is a vital component of establishing and maintaining a robust economic ecosystem by building regional capacity—through hard and soft infrastructure—that contributes to individual, firm, and community success. It provides a vehicle for individuals, organizations, local governments, learning institutes, and private industry to build strategies that will best serve economic development in the region. This planning effort is being completed in partnership with Fourth Economy Consulting.
About the Northern Middlesex Council of Governments
NMCOG is one of thirteen regional planning agencies within Massachusetts. Formed under Chapter 40B of the Massachusetts General Laws, NMCOG serves the municipalities of Billerica, Chelmsford, Dracut, Dunstable, Lowell, Pepperell, Tewksbury, Tyngsborough, and Westford to support and enhance a wide range of planning objectives related to land use, environmental protection, climate resiliency, economic development, housing, municipal service delivery, and transportation. NMCOG’s professional staff assist member communities in designing, facilitating, and implementing programs and planning initiatives which further the interests of the overall region. NMCOG staff also serve as staff to the Northern Middlesex MPO, to which they provide comprehensive transportation planning services for the region under contract with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation.
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