To achieve it's mission, Lumber City focuses on these key areas of economic development:
- Creating employment opportunities for City of North Tonawanda residents, particularly positions that pay a living wage, offer health, retirement, and other employee benefits, and provide skills training;
- Increasing the property tax base of the City of North Tonawanda;
- Increasing sales tax revenue in t
he City of North Tonawanda;
- Encouraging and fostering entrepreneurship;
- Strengthening and expanding existing businesses;
- Attracting new businesses to the City of North Tonawanda;
- Revitalizing Downtown and other commercial shopping areas;
- Stimulating tourism growth;
- Encouraging the environmental remediation and reuse of contaminated property;
- Promoting the development of land use policies designed to encourage sustainable development and preserve City neighborhoods;
- Encouraging and supporting the development and maintenance of municipal infrastructure, recreational facilities, and other public facilities and services that support businesses and residential neighborhoods; and
- Undertaking any other activities that affect the general purposes of the Corporation
