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stock.. Dark factories: fully automated facilities offering no localjob base.. Vacation/short-term rental(AirBnB, VRBO, etc.) portfolios owned out-of- <br />region: shift housing from residents to tourists, with revenue leakage.. Externally owned casinos: target local customers without bringing in <br />outside revenue.. Company Towns. Enclave lndustries <br />RETENTIVE ENTERPRISES <br />Definition: These firms replace <br />imported goods and services with <br />locally produced equivalents, retaining <br />value that would otherwise leave the <br />region. Situations are essential for <br />retaining regional profits. <br />Retentive Enterprises <br />Characteristics:. Primarily serve local markets. Typically, non-base industries.. May provide modest job creation <br />but limited wage growth <br />ln positive cases, additional enterprises help a community retain revenues <br />othenruise spent in other locations. <br />ln negative cases, additional enterprises reduce revenues spent in other <br />enterprises in the local ecosystem by directly competing in a community's <br />limited market. <br />Wealth Retaining Examples:. Locally owned restaurants: circulate money locally and reflect community <br />character.. Auto repair shops, hair salons, and service-based microenterprises. Local hotels and motels, if locally owned and managed. While valuable for community resilience, these businesses typically do not <br />expand the region's economic base unless they transition toward exporting <br />goods/services. <br />ADDITIVE ENTERPRISES <br />Additive Enterprise <br />Defi nition: Additive fi rms generate <br />external revenue by selling goods <br />or services outside the region, thus <br />bringing new financial capital into the <br />community. Often labelled as "base <br />industry'' enterprises, <br />Characteristics:. Expand the economic base. May rely on relatively low-wage <br />or low-skill labor. Provide positive but modest <br />contributions to longterm <br />Examples: ProsPeritY. Food processing plants: process locally grown products for national <br />markets.. Telemarketing centers: export service work with limited career progression. Low-skill manufacturing operations: bring jobs but rarely promote <br />innovation or regional integration. <br />Additive enterprises increase total income in the community but rarely build <br />upward mobility or innovation capacity. <br />ACCELERATIVE ENTERPRISES <br />Accelerative Enterprise <br />Definition: Accelerative firms not <br />only add value to the local economy, <br />but they also increase the region's <br />capacity to grow more high-value firms <br />in the future. <br />Time <br />Old Heat CERB Feasibility Study | 29 <br />! <br />=(!o3 <br />.= <br />E <br />Eoo <br />I <br />Time <br />Time <br />E <br />={E <br />0,3 <br />.=c <br />E <br />Eoo <br />z(Eo3 <br />fEJ <br />E <br />Eoo