The Niagara Development Corridor is comprised of six partners, City of Welland, City of St. Catharines, City of Niagara Falls, Town of Fort Erie, City of Port Colborne, and the Niagara Economic Development Corporation, which are well-positioned along the QEW-406 highway corridor.

With a combined population in excess of 400,000 and an experienced labour force of 200,000 people including over 36,000 skilled workers, the corridor is a central hub for the advanced manufacturing industry.

The corridor serves as the focal point for accessing and sharing the newest manufacturing and material technologies due to its thousands of skilled workers with credentials in science, engineering and technology. In addition to the advanced technologies the region holds, the corridor is ideally situated minutes from the U.S. border, making it a gateway to the U.S. market.

The mandate of the Niagara Development Corridor is to address opportunities for new business development and investment attraction relating to specific economic clusters that encompass all partners' communities. The Corridor partners recognize that competitive strength may be derived from proximity and or synergies between their communities and from the proximity and synergies between competing firms, suppliers, labour markets, institutions such as Brock University , Niagara College and research industries that operate with the combined economic geography.