Independent economic analysis for governments, developers, and businesses in and around Prineville, built on Crook County's own data and designed to hold up when a lender or a funder reviews it.
Crook County pairs a ranching and agricultural heritage around Prineville with an unexpected modern anchor: some of the largest data centers in the country, drawn to central Oregon by cheap power and cool, dry air. Wood products and a growing recreation economy round it out.
A data-center expansion, an agricultural venture, or a downtown project in Prineville each raise the same questions, what it returns to the county, and whether the numbers hold, and the data-center tax picture in particular rewards a careful fiscal read.
We answer two questions with evidence. Economic impact: what a project brings to Crook County, in jobs, output, and tax revenue, with local leakage handled honestly. Feasibility and viability: whether it should move forward, measured with the same finance a lender runs, including debt-service coverage against the standard floor. We also handle fiscal impact for public budgets and grant applications, and market and cost-benefit analysis for a decision to open, expand, build, or buy.
National firms fly in, bill the travel, and price a county like Crook County out of the analysis it needs. We work across the interior West, we can be on-site, and we understand these economies from the inside. Every study is built on the region's measured record from the federal statistical agencies, so the numbers trace to a public source and survive scrutiny.
Have a project in Crook County? Tell us what you are weighing and where. We will lay out what it takes to answer it, and what it costs.
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