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Friday, April 5, 2019
Division Business Meeting and Reception at NPC
Please join us for our Division Business Meeting on Monday, April 15 at 8AM PDT. We will be in Sierra C at the San Francisco Marriott Marquis. We need your input on topics including:
Monday, April 1, 2019
News and Views, April 2019
News and Views for April 2019 is now available. Check your email for the current edition. Inside this issue are essays from this year's Holzheimer Memorial Student Scholarship competition:
- NYC’s Industrial Business Zone Program: Examining the Intersection Between Economic Development and Land Use Policy
- Applying Strategic Planning Principles and a Focused Approach to Economic Development (A Plan to Reverse Declining Economic Trends in Clinton, Iowa)
- Examination of the Atlanta, Georgia Region Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Factors of Connectivity, Quality of Networks, Propensity For Venture Creation and Socio-Political-Cultural Influences
- Defining and Re-Defining Blight: Evaluating the Blight Remediation Goal of Tax Increment Financing
Tuesday, March 26, 2019
Join EDD at NPC!
Planning connects us at the American Planning Association's 2019 National Planning Conference, April 13-16 in San Francisco. NPC19 offers everything planners expect from the year's premier planning conference: a great location, fresh ideas to take home, and new connections to advance their careers. Learn more and register at planning.org/npc.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
FREE Webinar
March 27 – Reshoring:
The Urgent Need to Bring Manufacturing Back to America
Rosemary Coates, Reshoring Institute
1-2:30 pm Eastern
CM Pending
Free registration available at the link
American companies are on a quest to Reshore production.
According to a 2014 study, 54% of US manufacturers over $1billion in revenue
are considering Reshoring some or all of their manufacturing. Site evaluation
and the correct site selection are critical to the success of these projects.
Establishing manufacturing at the right site has an economic multiplier effect
on communities. Manufacturing jobs pay well and workers use their wages to buy
homes, cars and other goods in the local community. Everybody wins. Reshoring
is a very popular idea among businesses, their customers and governments where
jobs growth will have the most impact. But it’s not that simple. Reshoring
requires a carefully crafted journey through innovation, automation,
localization of products and site/community selection. You will learn about the
major components in this decision and what you need to develop a business case to
bring manufacturing back to specific communities. We will also learn about some
reshoring failures, where selecting the wrong site had devastating results.
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Terry Holzheimer Memorial Student Scholarship for National APA Conference
On behalf of the
APA's Economic Development Division, I would like to notify you of a deadline
extension for the Holzheimer Memorial Student Scholarship for Economic
Development Planning. Applications for the 2015 scholarship are now due
on February 15. If you know of strong projects by Master's level students
who are enrolled in or recently graduated from PAB-accredited planning
programs in the US, please encourage them to apply.
The scholarship, once
called the Economic Development Division Travel Scholarship, has recently been
renamed in memory of longtime APA member and economic development visionary,
Dr. Terry Holzheimer of Arlington County and Virginia Tech. The $1,000 award
is a travel scholarship provided by the APA’s Economic Development Division
to support attendance at the national APA meeting in the spring. The award will
be decided on the basis of a letter of recommendation from a faculty
member and an original student paper or work that is 2,500 words or less.
The original student
submission should speak to practitioners about a substantive topic related to
economic development in the United States. We strongly encourage students to
think broadly about the topic of economic development. The winning paper or
project will satisfactorily demonstrate the following: topical relevance to economic
development practitioners with a clear discussion of why practitioners should
care about the findings; soundness of data collection and methods; quality
writing; student authorship; and originality and creativity.
The
committee reserves the right to withhold the award should no submissions comply
with these criteria.The winner will be
notified by March 1, 2015 and the scholarship will be presented at APA's
National Planning Conference in Seattle, April 18-22, 2015.
Margaret Cowell
Assistant Professor,
Urban Affairs and Planning, Virginia
Tech
mmcowell@vt.edu
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Get Recognized in Seattle!!
Call for Submissions for the Annual Donald E. Hunter Excellence in Economic Development Planning Award
We invite you to submit an
application for the annual Excellence in Economic Development Planning Award
from the American Planning Association’s Economic Development Division. The
award is named to honor Don Hunter, a long-time planner and economic developer
who contributed a great deal of his time and wisdom to the APA. This is a
$1,000 award to a community that shows innovation and success with an economic
development plan or project.
The formal presentation will be at
the annual APA conference in Seattle, Washington, the evening of Monday, April
20, 2015, at the EDD Business Meeting. The Division will also help with
preparing a press release for the winning community and for Planning magazine,
and will announce the winner in the News & Views Division newsletter that
is sent out to some 1,000 organizations throughout North America. This year’s
deadline for submission is: Friday, March 6, 2015. Please submit to the
Chair of the Awards Committee:
Robert M. Lewis, AICP
Development Strategies
10 S. Broadway, Suite 1500
St. Louis, Missouri 63102
(314) 421-2800
Applications are encouraged to be
submitted by email to: blewis@development-strategies.com. If submitting hard copies, please send
four (4) copies of the narrative description and Attachment I for
distribution to the awards committee.
Persons submitting nominations
must be members in good standing of the American Planning Association.
Organizations submitting nominations must employ at least one member in good
standing of the American Planning Association. Plans and projects submitted for
consideration need not be limited to the United States.
There is no formal application
form or fee. Please follow these guidelines:
Narrative Description of the
Plan or Project: Description (up to
250 words) of the plan or project showing that the project fits the following
definitions:
- Economic Development:
The creation of new employment and wealth-generating activities through
the mobilization of human, financial, physical, and natural resources.
- Economic Development Planning: A series of deliberate activities leading to
initiatives that enhance the jurisdiction’s economic opportunities and
quality of life.
Attachment I (Required): Nominee's Fulfillment of Award Criteria For each of the
following criteria, provide up to a 100-word description of the project. The
entire attachment (all six criteria) should be no more than two pages or 500
words.
- Originality:
Unique concept or appreciable refinement of existing techniques or
procedures.
- Transferability:
Potential application to other communities or projects.
- Quality:
Excellence of thought, analysis, writing, graphics, and professional
character of the presentation.
- Implementation & Results: Effectiveness of work proposals that have been carried
out or show the promise of being carried out.
- Comprehensiveness:
Submittal demonstrates a thorough and in-depth approach.
- Contribution to Community: Demonstrates application to community needs and
desires.
Attachment II (Optional):
Supporting Materials
Applicants may provide news
clippings, brochures, slides, videos, etc. If items need to be returned, please
clearly mark them as such. Supporting materials need not be sent in sets of
four if too inconvenient or expensive.
Schedule for Award Selection(s)
Application deadline:
Friday, March 6, 2015
Review by Awards Committee: March 9-20, 2015
Notifications to applicants: March 20-23, 2015
Review by Awards Committee: March 9-20, 2015
Notifications to applicants: March 20-23, 2015
Presentation of award(s): April
20, 2015 (evening, in Seattle, Washington)
THANK
YOU! WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR SUBMISSIONS!
Tuesday, September 23, 2014
The Role of Airports: Your Opinions are Valued
The Transportation
Research Board (TRB) Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) project, Aligning
Community Expectations with Airport Roles, is currently underway, and
the project team is looking for your input.
The objective of this project is to develop a
handbook that airport managers can use to explain, demonstrate, and facilitate
discussions about the roles that general aviation and commercial service
airports play in our communities. The project will address common
“disconnects” between community expectations and the realities faced by airport
management, to help reduce controversies.
This
study will:
- Identify the “Top 10” most significant issues that arise as a result of confusion over the various roles played by airports (as opposed to the roles played by airlines and other entities).
- Develop a Handbook to describe best practices for communicating the diverse roles of the airport to the general public, elected officials, and the business community.
- Enhance the Handbook with a user-friendly database that incorporates supporting information and resources.
- Date: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
- Time: 2:00-3:00 p.m. EST
Members
of the APA Economic Development Division are invited to join the
conversation in a one-hour teleconference which will provide valuable input
to the project’s research.
Space is limited. To participate, complete the brief survey to
provide your contact information to the research team.
The Airport
Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) is an industry-driven, applied
research program that develops near-term, practical solutions to problems faced
by airport operators. Mead & Hunt, Inc. is a nationally recognized aviation
consulting firm leading this research team. Learn
more.
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