Huge Economic Development Event Comes in October

Get your big hat out and prepare for a storm of huge economic development ideas to come ripping through Northwest Florida October 29 with the Annual Fall Leadership Summit being held at the Hilton Sandestin Beach Golf Resort & Spa. There are tons of presentations on the board with big-name speakers such as Jerry Ray from St. Joe, Department of Transportation Secretary Stephanie Kopelousos, Alabama Speaker of the House Seth Hammett, Mel Ponder of Coastal Vision 3000 and many others.

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Florida's Great Northwest at New Airport

As reported by newpcairport.com:

Florida’s Great Northwest recently hosted its 7th Annual Focus Northwest Florida Event which included a stop at the site of the new Panama City/Bay County International Airport.

The event provided site selection consultants, investors, developers and business executives from all over the world an opportunity to learn about the region and meet the area’s business and political leaders.

The 2008 event is believed to have been the largest site-selection consultant event held in the United States with 40 consultants attending from 13 different states and one consultant from France.

The group heard briefings from Airport Executive Director Randy Curtis, PBS&J’s Darren Larson and Bay County Economic Alliance Executive Director Ted Clem about the progress of the relocation project and what to expect at the completion of construction.

Afterwards, several members of the group got a bird’s eye view of the project via helicopter.