Economic Development in Buncombe County: Boon or Burden?

National Climatic Data Center, 5th Floor Conference Room
Federal Building, Patton Avenue

October 11, 1995

"Leadership can responsibly foster enough disequilibrium to motivate us to learn"
- Ronald Heifetz

8:30     Coffee and muffins

8:45     Role of the National Climatic Data Center in the NC Economy
             Dr. Kenneth Hadeen, Director, National Climatic Data Center

9:15     Climate for Economic Development (and the Players) in Buncombe County
  Mac Williams, Vice President Economic Development, Asheville Area Chamber 
    of Commerce

10:00   Role of Community College in Economic Development
             Dr. J. Parker Chesson, Jr., Executive Vice President and Vice President for 
               Research and Planning, NC Department of Community Colleges

10:45   Break

11:00   Panel: What should we be doing...Strengths and Weaknesses in Economic
           Development
              Facilitator: Julia Cogburn (LA V), Planning Director, City of Asheville Planning
                Department
              Marilyn Bass (LA V), Asheville Minority Business Program
              Jim Turner, Mills Manufacturing
              Nan Guthrie, NC-DEHNR
              Mary Nell Webb, WNC Film Commission

12:15   Lunch                     

1:15      Sustainable Community Development on the Riverfront
               Karen Cragnolin (LA VII), Executive Director, RiverLink, Inc.

2:00     Break

2:15      Visioning Economic Development in Asheville/Buncombe County
              Phil Carson, Chair, Vision Steering Committee

Special thanks to Ruth Katz (LAS VI)