WILMINGTON, N.C. (May 1, 2013) — How do the various tax reform proposals you have heard about in the news relate to our efforts at regional economic development? Taking the question to an extreme, if we were to completely eliminate taxes in NC, would we attract more business or could we destroy the conditions that [...]
Military families are good business and missed connections for the region In economic development circles, you never hear professionals talk about “the one that got away”. Except when the carefully crafted veil of secrecy around economic development efforts is broken by the occasional news reporter, missed economic development opportunities rarely see the light of day. [...]
An open secret about the Cape Fear area is how many techies here work not at small boutique IT shops or local businesses but at employers like Cisco, IBM, SAS, Yahoo, HP. These large organizations are all grappling with the incredible changes being wrought by the web–by new collaborative technologies, new media habits, social networking. [...]