New EDIC Director Wants To Improve Community Relations

By Calli Remillard
Falmouth Enterprise

Now about a month into his new position, executive director of the Economic Development and Industrial Corporation Wayne Lingafelter has a message to share with the Falmouth community: the EDIC is open for business.

To be clear, it was never really closed, but being under new leadership means that the quasi-governmental board is looking to broaden its connections with the business community in town and deepen the working relationships the EDIC has already.

“We want to make sure that we’re a forward, public-facing body,” Mr. Lingafelter said in a phone interview. “We’re open for business. I don’t want to imply that we were closed, but we very much want to continue our efforts to reach out to the community and understand the business community’s needs.”

Mr. Lingafelter has been a resident of Falmouth for about five years, but he originally hails from Ohio. Most of his 30-year career has been in commercial real estate, bringing him to various markets in the Midwest and mid-Atlantic, his most recent stop being in the Baltimore/Washington, DC, area. Before joining the EDIC, Mr. Lingafelter was the president of the development and construction division of a public real estate company. That experience, he said, felt like it was in alignment with what the EDIC was looking for in its search for a new executive director. To read more of this article click here.