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Economic Development Research Update
Economic Development Research Group, Inc. September 2007
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Dr. Stephen Fitzroy Joins EDR Group
EDR Group is delighted to announce the addition of Dr. Stephen Fitzroy to its team. Dr. Fitzroy's outstanding record in strategic economic research adds new range and depth to EDR Group's existing expertise. Dr. Fitzroy takes up his position this week as EDR Group's Director of Operations Research & Trade - Transport Economics & International Trade.
Stephen Fitzroy has over 30 years of experience in providing economic consulting services and program management for private and public sector clientèle. His areas of expertise include economic analysis applications for transportation planning, long range forecasting, housing, land use, and economic development.
Read on...New Economist BornEDR Group's Brian Baird Alstadt and his wife Karen are very proud to announce the arrival of their daughter Amartya Baird Alstadt, born May 23, 2007. As many will no doubt realize, Amartya is named for India's Nobel Prize-winning economist, Amartya Sen.
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Le plus ca change... New Wine for Old...
"I just want to say one word to you - just one word...plastics... There's a great future in plastics." That was the career advice given to the young college graduate played by Dustin Hoffman in the 1967 movie, The Graduate.
In the Summer 2007 edition of Economic Development Journal, Brett Piercy and Glen Weisbrod of ERG Group present their overview of how economic development strategy and development of business attraction targeting have been changing over time, and how new analysis tools are enabling economic developers to become more sophisticated in their identification and refinement of feasible target strategies.
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British Columbia Trade & Manufacturing Opportunities
EDR Group is participating in a new Northwest Trade and Manufacturing Corridor Opportunity Study that will benefit 21 communities along the Highway 16/ Canadian National Rail corridor. For the The Northern Development Initiative Trust of British Columbia, the study is identifying the competitive advantages of this new transportation and trade corridor as it relates to the global manufacturing sector and direct a targeted program for the attraction of investment in manufacturing within communities.
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New High Speed Train EIR Released
The California High-Speed Rail Authority has released the latest Environmental Impact Report for a portion of the proposed high-speed train between San Francisco and the Central Valley.
The economic impact modeling was conducted by Economic Development Research Group using TREDIS (Transportation Economic Development Impact System). TREDIS is designed to estimate net business attraction impacts of enhanced labor, business travel and tourism markets, as well as the more standard economic impacts of time and cost savings.
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Michigan Releases Highway Economic Plan
When a new highway ramp or bypass is proposed people reasonably ask what the benefits (and costs) will be. Michigan's most recent Five Year Highway Plan attempts to estimate the benefits of its planned highway investments between 2007-2011.
As part of the plan, a new study, co-authored by EDR Group and University of Michigan's Institute of Labor & Industrial Relations, estimates $71 million in travel time savings for households, and $51 million in savings for businesses as a result of improving pavement conditions and increasing capacity between 2007 and 2011.
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Fighting Congestion in Altoona
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