LocalContent.com Launches South Central Regional Network Powering Local Economic Development Across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas

(Little Rock. AR) LocalContent.com today announced the launch of the LocalContent South Central Regional Network, a regionally led framework designed to advance credible, transparent, and data-driven local economic, workforce, and community development outcomes across Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas.

The LocalContent Regional Network | U.S. South Central connects communities, local businesses, industry leaders, and public agencies under shared Local Content standards to define priorities, report outcomes, and verify local economic, workforce, and community benefit investments tied to public and private development projects. The network is structured to reflect real economic and labor markets while maintaining alignment with local content standards.

The U.S South Central Regional Network will be led by Angelé Doyle, Principal of andgroup.solutions, based in Arkansas. Each LocalContent Regional Network is led by a LocalContent.com business affiliate partner, ensuring that local interests, regional market conditions, and community priorities are directly represented in how development outcomes are measured, reported, and communicated.

The Regional Network supports a wide range of infrastructure and development projects, including transportation, energy, manufacturing, utilities, public facilities, and data centers etc.i. Within the South Central region.

The Regional Network operates around three core functions:

- collecting local priorities

-turning input into proof,

-guiding better decisions.

Through this model, LocalContent captures what stakeholders say matters most—such as small business contracting, job creation, workforce training, and community benefit investments—and translates that input into verified data that supports better project design, funding alignment, investment decisions, and positive public sentiment toward public-private development.

A key capability of the Regional Network is the Local Content Transparency Request, a public-facing tool that allows stakeholders to request transparency on projects in their area while also sharing economic, workforce, and community development priorities. The Transparency Request functions as both an accountability mechanism and a public sentiment signal, helping surface alignment, risk, and opportunity early in the development process.

“As investment in infrastructure, manufacturing, energy, and community development continues to grow, regions need a trusted way to define success and verify outcomes,” said Dan Sierra, Senior Director of Compliance Partnerships and spokesperson for LocalContent. “The South Central Regional Network demonstrates how locally led networks can power measurable economic development while maintaining one credible standard.”

LocalContent also announced that additional Regional Network Leadership appointments later in 2026. Organizations, institutions, and individuals interested in supporting their region are encouraged to complete a free Regional Network Partner Application to help guide future network expansion.

The launch of the South Central Regional Network marks an important step toward ensuring economic growth delivers measurable benefits for local businesses, workers, and communities—where projects are built.

For more information or to apply as a Regional Network Partner, visit LocalContent.com/regional-networks

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