Press Release: AdvantageWest Board Meeting August 20
Date Posted: 8/11/2009
The Board of Directors of AdvantageWest Economic Development Group will meet on Thursday, Aug. 20, at 2 p.m. The meeting will take place at the AdvantageWest offices, located at 134 Wright Brothers Way in Fletcher, adjacent to the Asheville Regional Airport.
AdvantageWest is the regional economic development commission serving the 23 westernmost counties of North Carolina. Chartered by the state General Assembly in 1994, AdvantageWest is a non-profit, public-private partnership. Meetings are open to the public.
The major job creation initiatives of AdvantageWest are Blue Ridge Advanced Manufacturing Initiative; Blue Ridge Food Ventures, a food business and natural products incubator and commercial kitchen; the green-collar jobs initiative, AdvantageGreen; and entrepreneurial development activities such as Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council (BREC) and the Certified Entrepreneurial Community(SM). AdvantageWest also maintains the WNC Film Commission. Visit www.advantagewest.com for more information.
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Testimonial
In an effort to respond to the diverse economic development needs of North Carolina, then State Representative Martin Nesbitt introduced legislation creating the regional economic development partnerships. It was this extraordinary insight that allowed AdvantageWest to become one of the most innovative and nimble economic development programs in the state.
Gordon S. Myers
Founding Chair
AdvantageWest Board of Directors
Amanda Baranski
, Executive Assistant & Assistant Corporate Secretary
AdvantageWest
134 Wright Brothers Way
Fletcher, NC 28732
ph. 828-687-7234
fx. 828-687-7552
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