This month’s special guest is David Leezer, Vice President of Business Attraction for the Wichita Falls (TX) Chamber of Commerce. He began this role in December of 2019 and is the senior executive overseeing recruitment and attraction. His primary duties … Read More
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053 – Economic Development Secrets – Christine Bryant, CEcD, Corpus Christi Regional EDC
This month’s special guest is Christine Bryant, Director of Business Retention and Expansion for the Corpus Christi (Texas) Regional Economic Development Corporation. In addition to supporting existing industry, Christine is championing the Federal Opportunity Zones programming for the Coastal Bend … Read More
052 – Economic Development Secrets – Kenny McDonald, One Columbus
This month’s special guest is Kenny McDonald, CEcD, President and Chief Economic Officer at One Columbus. Kenny joined the One Columbus team in July 2010 and serves as the primary leader of all economic develoopment and business attraction efforts for … Read More
051 – Economic Development Secrets – Amy Madison, Pflugerville CDC
This month’s special guest is Amy Madison, Executive Director of the Pflugerville Community Development Corporation (PCDC). Amy has served the organization since January 2014. During the past six years, she successfully recruited or assisted in expanding 42 projects bringing over 2.6 … Read More
050 – Economic Development Secrets – Barry Broome, Greater Sacramento Economic Council
This month’s special guest is Barry Broome, President and CEO of the Greater Sacramento Economic Council. The organization is the catalyst for innovative growth strategies in the Capital Region of California. Barry is responsible for leading community-driven efforts to attract, … Read More
Secret from 047: Using Data to Measure Success
This month’s podcast special guest is Alex West, Director of Research at Ann Arbor SPARK. She explains how economic development organizations can get started collecting and organizing local data: So where do you start and where do you stop? And … Read More
049 – Economic Development Secrets – Sales Tax Implications of COVID-19
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we recorded a very unique episode of the Economic Development Secrets Podcast featuring Paul Scheuren, Principal and Economist at Impact DataSource. This episode is a follow up to last week’s discussion about how … Read More
FAQ: Coronavirus and EB-5 TEAs
As unemployment claims rise and uncertainty about the near-term and long-term impacts abound, we are getting a lot of questions about how the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) will impact high unemployment EB-5 TEAs (COVID-19 will not have any significant impact on … Read More
048 – Economic Development Secrets – COVID-19 Consumer Spending Impact
In light of the current COVID-19 pandemic, we recorded a very unique episode of the Economic Development Secrets Podcast featuring Paul Scheuren, Principal and Economist at Impact DataSource. Paul discusses how consumer spending helps us illustrate what is happening to … Read More
New TEA Rules – Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Under the new TEA rules[1] (as of November 21, 2019) USCIS is no longer accepting TEA certifications from the individual states, and is instead requiring that I-526 petitions contain separate evidence that a Project qualifies as a TEA and will … Read More