Who Are We?
Founded in 2012, ECON partners, inc. is a woman-owned consulting firm specializing in identifying, securing, and implementing public funding for the design, engineering, and construction of impactful economic development and capital projects. With offices located in downtown Harrisburg and Radnor, PA, we engage and build long-lasting working relationships with clients across the Commonwealth.
What Do We Do?
ECON specializes in full spectrum public funding, funding compliance, and real estate development services for a diverse spectrum of projects that include multimodal transportation, streetscape amenities, infrastructure, environmental remediation, parks and recreation, wastewater and stormwater, historic restoration, and vertical construction capital projects. Our services include grant identification; application development and submission; management of post-award compliance processes; and coordination of the complex requirements necessary to implement public funding, including procurement process design; construction documentation; diversity plan compliance; and prevailing wage compliance.
ECON is certified by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a third‐party consultant contracted with the PA Office of the Budget on behalf of the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program (RACP) program. We also manage hands on writing, approval, administration, and compliance services for RACP Grantees and Subgrantees outside of our services to the Commonwealth.
Who Do We Serve?
ECON provides grant writing, post-award drawdown, and compliance management services to municipal, private, non-profit, healthcare, and higher education clients. Our projects are as diverse as our client base, ranging from single‐site redevelopments and historic neighborhood revitalization projects, to large, mixed‐use sites with multiple end users.
About
Meet the Team
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PresidentColeen Terry is the founder and President of ECON partners, inc., a woman-owned and staffed public funding firm headquartered in Radnor, PA, with a satellite office in Harrisburg. Coleen founded ECON in 2012, intent upon creating a client-first company motivated by results and community impacts. She fervently believes when communities and clients grow from her efforts to advance projects, ECON grows.
Coleen brings more than 25 years of economic development experience to each project and community she engages. Fostering client outcomes that directly benefit the neighborhoods where they are nurtured and built, gets her up in the morning and drives her to deliver tangible results for ECON’s clients.
Coleen leads a professional team strongly rooted in executing successful implementation strategies for impactful projects. She leads ECON’s work supporting new development projects as well as projects that repurpose underutilized buildings and sites. Her deep knowledge of public funding programs and their compliance requirements has garnered her recognition with the Commonwealth, as well as with ECON’s diverse clientele.
When she isn’t leading her team to make great things happen for their clients, Coleen can usually be found traveling for new cultural experiences, cooking with her husband, and enjoying time with their family and rowdy pack of fur kids
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Development Services AssociateAbby started with ECON partners as a Development Services Associate in May 2022. Prior to ECON, Abby earned a Bachelors of Social Work (Messiah University ‘21) and a Masters of Social Work (Shippensburg University ‘22). In this position, Abby uses her passion for relational and community development to build a strong rapport with clients through the preparation and facilitation of public funding strategies, the development and management of grant applications and post-award compliance, and the stewardship and oversight of government relations and stakeholder engagements.
Outside of work, Abby enjoys being too competitive in pickleball, exploring new restaurants, and spending time with her husband and golden retriever, Rye.
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Development Services AssociateCory Brought has spent her career working in business finance and administration. With degrees in Agricultural Business (Penn State, 01’), and Landscape Architecture (Temple University, 07’), Cory’s passion for the environment, conservation, historic preservation, and design led her to ECON partners, inc. As a Development Services Associate, Cory looks forward to serving as a resource to clients in all aspects of economic development projects and engagements.
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Development Services AdvisorHolli started as a Development Services Advisor for ECON partners in November 2023. Preceding ECON, Holli earned a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration at Millersville University in 1999. In addition, she spent 21 years with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in various positions, the last one lasting 18 years with Office of the Budget in the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program.
Holli enjoys interacting with people and seeing organizations be successful with the funding opportunities presented to them. While it is not always easy, she helps clients navigate tough and complex grant and loan requirements.
During her 18 years with the Office of the Budget and the Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program, Holli assisted on more than 3,000 projects that have been awarded in excess of five billion dollars. Her experience will help save grantees substantial time and expense because of her ability to streamline the process and identify areas of concern or opportunities to scope projects in a way that may not be immediately apparent.
When not working, Holli enjoys creating memories with her two children & their dog and a good game of corn hole.
Holli looks forward to assisting projects through the world of public funding.
