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Our Vision
Creating a
Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy for an area requires a thorough
understanding of factors that have determined our past and present, and how
existing resources can be used to shape our community’s future. During the
Winter and Spring of 2003, the Future Forward Leadership Committee,
representing 12 counties of the western Piedmont and Blue Ridge High Country
of North Carolina, talked with their neighbors, friends, and colleagues to
determine what we would all like to see happen to make this part of North
Carolina more economically prosperous.
From that effort, the
Future Forward Leadership Committee has crafted, with significant input from
community leaders and organizations, a vision for the future of this area
that will achieve:
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