April 2012

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October 22, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

Prepared Communities Win!

The 2012 Gulf Power Symposium was recently held at the Sandestin Beach and Golf Resort in Northwest Florida. The theme for this year’s Symposium was “Our Competitive Edge,” and 560 Northwest Florida leaders assembled for two days to hear a variety of presenters... Read More »
September 18, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

Oil Spill Incentive Garners Successes!

My May blog post was captioned “Northwest Florida’s Unique Business Incentive,” and I described a new $30 million job creation incentive program available in 8 Northwest Florida counties: Bay, Escambia, Franklin, Gulf, Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Wakulla, and Walton. ... Read More »
August 14, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

The Regional Economic Development Funding Conundrum

I recently had the pleasure of attending the Southern Economic Development Council annual meeting in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. SEDC is a regional economic development organization for practitioners in 17 southern states. A nearly universal theme among the conference... Read More »
July 12, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

Airbus is coming!

Technically, they are already here, with an existing Engineering Center and more than 200 employees in Mobile. But on Monday, July 2nd, Airbus announced that it would open a new assembly facility in Mobile to produce the family of A320 aircraft. The new $600 million manufacturing plant... Read More »
June 19, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

Northwest Florida Now!

Florida’s Great Northwest was created in 2001 in response to a growing recognition of the importance of regions as a critical economic development geography. While Northwest Florida does not represent a single interdependent economy, regional leaders understood the need to... Read More »
May 17, 2012 - Posted by Don Kirkman

Northwest Florida's Unique Business Incentive

In 2011 the Florida legislature passed legislation creating a special economic development incentive for eight Northwest Florida counties deemed “disproportionally affected” by the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The counties that benefitted from this... Read More »