A 12 months of Partnerships and Impactful Financial Evaluation Throughout the US

This yr we’re increasing the appliance of our fashions and financial evaluation to help native and regional planning choices. Right here’s a take a look at what’s forward.

Our Regional Financial and Change Instrument (REACT) will proceed to play a central function in understanding the direct and financial multiplier results of native investments and industries for efficient coverage and planning throughout North America.

In 2025, the REACT mannequin supported a variety of analyses, together with serving to MassDevelopment assess how 95 companies in Devens contribute to the statewide financial system; evaluating the financial impacts of the proposed North Adams Journey Path in Berkshire County for MASS MoCA; and estimating how present and future path use will strengthen native and regional economies alongside the New Haven–Northampton Canal Greenway.

Evaluating Financial and Infrastructure Investments into 2026

• In Billings, Montana, we’re main a research (with Kittelson Associates) to measure how Full Streets tasks affect property values, retail exercise, and enterprise vitality alongside key corridors.
• For the New Mexico Finance Authority, alongside Mass Economics, we’re serving to to develop an impression measurement framework throughout greater than 20 funding packages, serving to to establish impression metrics and talk the outcomes of public funding.
• With the Appalachian Regional Fee, we’re figuring out the real-world financial improvement results of accomplished freeway corridors to help ongoing funding choices.
• For the Metropolis of Boston, we have been thrilled to be chosen for on-call financial evaluation to help redevelopment market evaluation, situation planning and monetary evaluations to tell native improvement methods.
• And for our latest challenge in Herndon, Virginia, we’re main a brand new financial improvement technique by means of detailed information evaluation of current circumstances and future alternatives, which will even be built-in right into a complete plan led by companion Company Panorama + Planning.

With new tasks underway, expanded modeling capabilities and a rising community of companions, 2026 guarantees to be a yr of continued innovation and impression for Cambridge Econometrics and our shoppers, companions and collaborators.