CSRA Enterprise Community

The Central Savannah River Area Enterprise Community, Inc. (CSRA EC) operates from the LGS department with the Director of Local Government Services serving as the EC’s Acting Director. The Enterprise Community’s purpose is to revitalize distressed communities and create livable communities where families can flourish.  The CSRA EC is comprised of ten census tracts in a six-county area of East Central Georgia.

In 1994, the CSRA Enterprise Community received a $2.9 million federal grant.  The leadership of the CSRA EC was structured to maintain a bottoms-up development process, which has remained virtually unchanged for the past several years.  A Board of Directors determines the allocation of CSRA EC funds within the region.  In addition to the region's EC Board, each census tract has a local board to make programmatic decisions for that area. 

The Enterprise Community program was designed to give communities facing severe economic hardships the ability to direct growth and revitalization from the ground up.  The Enterprise Community focused federal and state resources on projects designed to develop economic opportunities, sustainable community development, community-based partnerships, and a strategic vision for change.

All of CSRA EC programs and services are directed to improving the quality of life in the CSRA. 

More information about the federal EZ/EC Communities project can be obtained from USDA’s EZ/EC website.

The federally designated CSRA Enterprise Community includes ten census tracts in Burke (9502, 9504, 9508 ), McDuffie (9502), Jefferson (9601, 9604), Hancock (9801), Taliaferro (9902), and Warren (9703, 9704) counties.  To determine if a particular location is located in the CSRA Enterprise Community, please click here to visit the locator map.

LGS staff also assist with the administration of a Georgia Dream Single Family Housing Development grant, awarded for $123,000 to the CSRA EC.  Under this program, the CSRA Enterprise Community, Inc. proposes to build, market, and sell four new houses in Louisville to eligible first time homebuyers.  LGS staff work with the City of Louisville, which deeded property to the EC to build the four homes, and with Jefferson County, which demolished a deteriorated shirt factory building on the site property.