Strategic Location Advisors, LLC

04/10/2026

Area Development Magazine’s Annual Consultant Survey is now available. professionals should review trends shaping the industry for 2026 as well as thoughts from several national and global site consultants, including SLA’s Principal & CEO Chuck Sexton. He and Bryan Farlow will be at the SS Summit in Arlington TX later this month to discuss more with attendees!

Welcome to the New Era of Operational Certainty.

03/12/2026

SLA is proud to continue partnership with S.C. Department of Commerce and the Rural Development team on their growth initiatives! Our CEO Chuck Sexton is speaking at the South Carolina on the programs bringing strategic community and planning (along with ) to communities around the state. This is a great model for helping rural communities gain traction, revenue, and momentum and we love working with them to do so!

01/15/2026

Is your community set up for success in 2026 and beyond? EDC360 is here and ready to score how solid your foundation is to capture new projects. Learn more about this program or schedule a meeting with our team to see how you can receive your EDC360 Report Card!

Community Economic Development Assessment. Receive a report card on how well your community performs economic development.

12/19/2025

An all-star "Advancing Your Economic Development Career" panel shined at the 2025 . Big thanks to Charles Sexton, Meryl Fisackerly, CEcD, MEDP and Anthony T.J. Michelic for leading a great and fun conversation.

12/04/2025

Our community clients have been killing it this year! Here's another nice announcement from Myrtle Beach Regional Economic Development Corporation in the city of Conway. Great job as always Sandy Davis and the team at S.C. Department of Commerce!

11/19/2025

What a great opportunity for economic development professionals at Consultant Connect’s Economix event last week in Orlando! We enjoyed participating, fielding questions from you, and most importantly, building relationships that benefit you and our site selection clients. Truly enjoyed my panel with colleagues and the Office Hours face time with communities. Lastly, our team finished the week with an attempt at the world record for the most site visits in different countries in a single day! Not sure if we accomplished it, but still had a great evening at Epcot with economic developers from Wichita Falls TX and our international partners.

11/05/2025

Always good to see investment and jobs in one of our client communities. Great work as always by S.C. Department of Commerce and SouthernCarolina Alliance!

11/04/2025

More news today! Introducing EDC360, a new program from SLA built to score your community's strength as an economic development engine using proprietary methodology along with our expertise in Site Selection and Economic Development leadership. Learn more about it on our website!

Does your community have a successful economic development program for success? EDC 360 analyzes and scores your ability to achieve momentum.

11/03/2025

Strategic Location Advisors is continuing our growth with the addition of Bryan Farlow as VP of Site Selection! Read more about this in our blog post below as well as the promotion of Ivy Stanley, MS to Chief Operating Officer. More exciting news will be coming in the next few weeks as our momentum continues!

Strategic Location Advisors Announces Addition of Bryan Farlow as VP of Site Selection

10/23/2025

Many thanks to the High Grounds of Texas for having two of our executive team members for the Annual Meeting. They will be speaking on EDC Planning and Leveraging AI for EDCs.

10/09/2025

After a great webinar this week with Golden Shovel Agency, many have asked where our team will be in-person the remainder of 2025 to connect with us. Take a look and join us if you can!

The High Ground of Texas Annual Meeting: Oct 23-24

Consultant Connect ECONOMIX Orlando: Nov 11-13

SEDC Emerging Leaders Dallas: Dec 8-10