Site Selection 1998 Top 10 Development Groups Awards Presentation
The 1998 Top Economic Development Groups were honored by Site Selection magazine in a special Awards Ceremony and Reception held during the IDRC World Congress in Boston, Massachusetts on Sunday, April 25, 1999.
Tim Venable, Managing Editor, Site Selection magazine opens the Awards Ceremony.
Don Dunshee (left), President and CEO, Broomfield Economic Development Corp., Broomfield, Colorado accepts award from Jack Lyne, Executive Editor, Site Selection magazine.
Robin Ronne (left), Director Economic Development, Tampa Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100, Tampa, Florida
Louis Roquet (left), President and CEO, Invest-Quebec, Montreal, Quebec
Robyn Bailey (left) and Larry Rosenstrauch (center), Director, Loudoun County (Va.) Dept. of Economic Development, Leesburg, Virginia
Ben Robertson (left), Michigan Economic Development Corp., Lansing, Michigan
Van Rogerson (far left), with two Board Members of North Carolina’s Northeast Partnership, Edenton, North Carolina
Joy Pooler (left), Development Specialist, Pennsylvania’s Governor’s Action Team, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Richard Knowlton Jr. (left), President and CEO, Savannah Economic Development Authority, Savannah, Georgia
Danny Fore (left), Tri-County Economic Development Corp., Covington, Kentucky
Anna K. Spear McKean (left), Virginia Economic Development Partnership, Richmond, Virginia
For more details, read the Site Selection online article Championship Caliber from the May, 1999 issue
"It is one of the happy incidents of the federal system that a single courageous State may, if its citizens choose, serve as a laboratory; and try novel social and economic experiments without risk to the rest of the country." — Justice Louis Brandeis, 1932
Discerning readers will recognize that the headline serves double duty as the theme for this year’s Spring Forum, set to take place in Fort Lauderdale from April 30 to May 4. Yes, obviously we want everyone to show up, but this column is about more than that.
