Wyoming Business: WBC touts Cheyenne as smart development model

CHEYENNE — The Wyoming Business Council is spotlighting Cheyenne as a model for economic development across Wyoming.

“We use you as the example when we’re going to other communities throughout the state, to make sure they recognize that vibrancy and commitment to infrastructure is extremely important,” Tucker Fagan, CEO of the state’s economic-development arm, told Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce members recently.

Fagan explained that state economic-development efforts are only successful when local communities are successful, and Cheyenne has been very successful in attracting business expansions.

“Jobs are created on Main Street, where people are willing to invest and take a chance,” he…