Aerotropolis Leadership Board

Here are the members from Triad Watch:

Here’s the email whence they came, obtained by Keith Brown.

Aerotropolis Leadership Board[1]

Ed Cone links to an HP Enterprise article:

Some area residents are raising questions about why meetings of the recently formed Aerotropolis Leadership Board aren’t open to the public when the group is developing plans for the region and is affiliated with an economic development partnership that receives government funding.

Here’s the Piedmont Triad Partnership.

Press Release – PTP – Aerotropolis Restructuring[1]

Here’s the USDOL WIRED.

From a 2-1-06 news release:

Each of the following regions will receive $15 million over a three-year period:

Coastal Maine (11 counties, including Augusta and Brunswick);

Northeast Pennsylvania (nine counties, including Scranton, Allentown and Reading);

Upstate New York (nine counties, including Rochester and Finger Lakes region);

Piedmont Triad North Carolina (12 counties, including Greensboro and Winston-Salem);

Central Michigan (13 counties, including Lansing, Flint and Saginaw);

Western Michigan (seven counties, including Grand Rapids);

Florida Panhandle (16 counties, including Tallahassee and Pensacola);

Western Alabama & Eastern Mississippi (17 counties in Alabama, including Tuscaloosa and Selma and 19 counties in Mississippi, including Meridian and Starkville);

North Central Indiana (14 counties, including Lafayette);

Greater Kansas City (10 counties in Missouri and eight counties in Kansas, including Topeka);

Denver Metro Region (eight counties, including Denver, Boulder and Ft. Collins);

Central & Eastern Montana (32 counties covering mostly rural areas);

California Coast (13 counties, including Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego).

What, beyond renting offices and paying salaries, are they doing with this money?

Here’s the Piedmont Triad Region.

21:30: PTP was incorporated as a non-profit in 1991.