The Community Improvement Corporation (CIC) of Belmont County, Ohio, is a non-profit corporation that has been dedicated to economic development since 1962.
Today, we focus on helping communities plan and re-imagine their towns while helping re-build the small business and entrepreneur ecosystem that is the backbone of our county.
Our mission: to create, advance, encourage, and promote industrial, economic, commercial, research, workforce capacity, and civic development.
Belmont County, Ohio:
- is the center of eastern Ohio, sharing development in the Upper Ohio River Valley with Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
- has I-70 running through the county east and west while our neighbors to each side have I-77 and I-79 running north and south to major markets including Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Indianapolis, St. Louis, Atlanta, Charleston, Cleveland, Detroit and Buffalo – all within a 500 mile drive.
- has a rich history of small businesses and entrepreneurs, with several of our businesses being over 90 years old.
