Rockland firm plans to create up to 30 jobs
Dream Local Digital, a digital marketing company in Rockland, is planning to expand and create up to 30 new jobs over two years after becoming a Pine Tree Development Zone.
The marketing company’s recent certification means it will immediately qualify for tax incentives revolving around job creation, said Shannon Kinney, the founder of Dream Local Digital, who was named by Mainebiz as a Woman to Watch last year.
“That type of assistance will allow us to create a few more jobs than we we would otherwise be able to,” she told Mainebiz, adding that she expects to start adding to her current 28-employee workforce sometime this summer.
Kinney said the Pine Tree Development Zone designation also will help the company in its effort to receive $25,000 from the state’s regional microloan program. The loan would help the company expand its 1,800 square-foot office at the former Courier-Gazette newspaper building on Main Street to just over 3,000 square feet.
Without the extra space, she said there would barely be any room to add more people. “We have one desk left,” Kinney said, “and if we have any more people, there will be no more room to sit.”
If the company doesn’t receive the loan, Kinney said she will have to look elsewhere for financing. “The application makes all the difference,” she said.
Kinney attributes the company’s Pine Tree Development Certification to persistent help from Jaimie Logan, an account executive with the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development, and Rockland Community Development Director John Holden, who worked together to assist Dream Local Digital.
“I view the Pine Tree Zone as the first step in several areas where we can get assistance,” Kinney said. “We got a number of very valuable contacts [from] Jaimie.”
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