Our Strategy
To address
current challenges, the Future Forward Leadership Committee began
identifying a set of actions. These actions fall into several categories
of issues – or strategic themes – including:
The Committee
identified a number of recommendations, but focused its attention
on ten ideas that it felt should be the focus of a cooperative effort
across the counties. Those recommendations include:
- Create a
network of regional alliances among existing institutions to implement
regional strategies
- Identify
transportation corridors as the main focus for future planned
development
- Identify
targeted infrastructure projects that tie the counties of the
area together and improve its economic performance
- Conduct
a campaign to increase the “value” placed on education
by local parents and young people
- Develop
an improved people-job matching information system that serves
a multi-county area
- Establish
a Learning and Innovation Network (LIN) that provides programs
and facilities required to foster technology-based economic development
- Conduct
a market research study to follow up the Future Forward Economic
Situation Analysis to identify firms in the targeted clusters
for proactive economic development activities
- Promote
a “mega-development” project as a regional tourism/retail
destination
- Promote
development of a “high-end” technology park associated
with the Learning and Innovation Network
- Establish
a regional taskforce for encouraging planned development and strategic
outdoor amenities, heritage and cultural assets and principles
for municipal and county action along targeted development corridors.
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