DOWN THE ROAD, COLLIER COUNTY WILL LOOK THE SAME, ONLY MORE SO

By Dave Trecker
Naplesnews.com

What will our business landscape look like five and ten years from now? What businesses will be front and center?

Opportunity Naples -- the partnership between the Greater Naples Chamber of Commerce and the Board of County Commissioners formed to devise an economic development plan -- is giving us an advance look.

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How the EDC is shaking up economic development

Autumn MorningSky
Metro Wire Media

A 27-year economic development veteran and current president and CEO of the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Pete Fullerton is shaking up the way projects and developments come to fruition in the metro. The corporation is imploring a number of new strategies that it’s hoping will boost efficiency when it comes to economic development.

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Fullerton: City Hall, economic development leaders 'all on same page'

Rob Roberts

Kansas City Business Journal

Pete Fullerton said he encountered "an amazing silo complex" at the Economic Development Corp. of Kansas City when he took over as its CEO two years ago.

Not only was there no communication among EDC departments, he said, there was little coordination among the many other municipal agencies and departments that play economic-development roles via the incentives and services they provide to new and expanding businesses.

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Is ‘One Macon’ a waste of time and effort?

Editorial
The Telegraph

One Macon. Is it another pointless effort to improve the quality of life in name only in Bibb County? It could be. However, with the wide range of people across the spectrum of the area’s population involved, the chances of this being a “pointless exercise” are slim.

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Cobb’s Magic Waters

by ADAM JONES-KELLEY
Site Selection Magazine


After “If you build it he will come,” this is probably the best known, and most beloved, quote from the classic movie “Field of Dreams.” Cobb County is building it, banking on the investment to come.


Cobb lured the Atlanta Braves north with sheer competence. It’s the biggest economic development project win in the county’s history, and this one project achieves nearly all of the goals in Cobb’s “Competitive EDGE program,” the economic development strategy launched in 2013 as the first-ever, community-wide public-private partnership.

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