Community Economic Development Associates
St. Charles is located 20 miles east of Rochester and 20 miles west of Winona.
St. Charles offers big city conveniences with the advantages of small-town living. Best known for being the Gateway to the Whitewater Valley.
Chatfield is located 20 south of Rochester.
Highway 52 runs through Chatfield and the city is split almost equally between the counties of Olmsted and Fillmore. Chatfield is known as “The Gateway to Bluff Country” and “The Chosen Valley.”
Spring Valley is located just 28 miles south of Rochester.
Spring Valley offers a quiet, small-town setting with all of the business services and community organizations, facilities and events found in larger communities making it a great place to live, work and play.
Watch the 2020 Regional Development Tour Video of Spring Valley
Chris joined CEDA in 2019 with more than 20 years of national sales and management experience in licensed product sales, working with Fortune 500 companies to support marketing initiatives through licensed promotional products for professional sport leagues. (NFL, NHL, NBA, and others)
Chris earned an undergraduate degree in business from the University of Wisconsin-Stout and holds a graduate degree in education from Winona State University. In addition to his work with CEDA, Chris serves as an Adjunct Professor in the College of Business at Winona State University and has collaborated to conduct and publish research in the areas of workforce development and personal branding in the American Journal of Business Education and the Journal of International Research in Higher Education.
Chris is an avid outdoorsman, Eagle Scout and volunteer, having grown up hunting and fishing on the Mississippi River in Winona, MN. He currently lives in St. Charles, MN, with his wife Kelly and their two children, Ethan and Haleigh.
Harmony is known as “The biggest little town in southern Minnesota.
Located about 47 miles southeast of Rochester near the Iowa border. The EDA’s focus is on projects that make Harmony a better place to live, work, and do business.
