Experience
Meredith Hill is a Senior Fiscal and Economic Analyst with TischlerBise and specializes in economic development planning. Prior to joining TischlerBise, Ms. Hill worked for the Missouri State Department of Economic Development, where she built over 150 project and industry economic impact analyses. Her work contributed to Missouri earning a "Leading the Way" designation, from the Pew Center on the States, for evaluating the effectiveness of tax incentives. As an Economic and Workforce Research Analyst with the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, Ms. Hill wrote industry briefs and occupation studies, and designed nine Economic Indicators eLearning Webinars intended to increase the use of labor market information in workforce development planning and practice.
Additional economic development experience for Ms. Hill includes work with regional tourism, entrepreneurship, form-based code development, and community revitalization.
Ms. Hill also has extensive experience with public outreach and engagement, including her role as Charrette Facilitator for development of the Town of Ludlow Massachusetts Master Plan: Current Conditions and Alternative Futures, the Simsbury Connecticut Town Center Form-Based Code, and the South End Neighborhood Revitalization Plan: Vision and Implementation Strategies for Bridgeport Connecticut.
Selected Impact Fee and Infrastructure Funding Strategy Experience
- City of Goodyear, AZ – Impact Fee Study
Selected Fiscal / Economic Impact Experience
- Town of Payson, AZ – Comprehensive Plan
- City of Louisville, CO – Demographic Analysis for Comprehensive Plan
- Henrico County, VA – Fiscal Impact Model Update
Selected Economic Development Experience
- Conducted an economic feasibility analysis for Bridgeport Connecticut South End Neighborhood Revitalization Plan: Vision and Implementation Strategies
- Independent Research Consultant for the Regional Tourism Feasibility Study for Braintree, Quincy and Weymouth Massachusetts
- Assistant Director of Upper Albany Main Street in Hartford, CT
Education
Master of Regional Planning - University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, 2010
B.A., Anthropology - Trinity College, Hartford, CT, 2002
Speaking Engagements
- Driving Decisions with Labor Market Information – 2012 Governor's Conference on Economic Development, St. Louis, MO
- Labor Market Information for Strategic Workforce Planning – 2011 Governor's Conference on Economic Development, Springfield, MO
- Crash Course in Labor Market Information – 2010 Governor's Conference on Economic Development, Kansas City, MO
Publications
- Missouri Target Industry Analyses for Biosciences and Energy Solutions, Co-Author
- 2011 State of the St. Louis Workforce Report
- Business Formations in Missouri
- Missouri Economic Impact Brief Wind Energy Industries
- Missouri Economic Impact Brief Manufacturing Industries
- Pattern Industry Insight Information Technology Services
- Renewable Energy Production Tax Credit
- Examining Connecticut's Inter-Municipal Economic Development Collaboration as Affected by the EDA's Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) Framework