"Thursday, October 11,
2012
830am to
415pm
The Center for
the Arts at the Candy Factory
9419 Battle
Street
Manassas,
Virginia
Asset-Based
Economic Development involves the creation of goods and services based on a
community’s existing assets, particularly cultural and natural assets. An
Asset-Based strategy enables economic growth in communities typically bypassed
by conventional economic development efforts.
VDDA’s Annual
Workshop will involve presentations by representatives from Manassas, our host
community, and by representatives from other communities around Virginia about
creating economic vibrancy by taking advantage of their local assets,
including battlefields and other historic sites, rivers, roads and trails, and
farms. Learn how these efforts also benefit downtowns.
Schedule of
Events:
8:30am
- Registration
and Continental Breakfast
9:00am
- Welcome and
Introductions
The Honorable
Harry J. Parrish, II, City of Manassas
9:30am
- What’s Love
Got to Do With It?
The Hon. Mark
Wofle, Councilman, City of Manassas
Why asset based economic development? Councilmember Mark
Wolfe introduces the City of Manassas and how the arguments were made that arts,
entertainment and tourism we worth the investment and how they have paid off in
terms of tax benefits to the City.
10:30am
-
Break
10:45am -
The Journey
through Hallowed Ground
Denise Harris,
AICP Director, National Scenic Byway, Journey Through Hallowed Ground
Partnership
11:45am -
Lunch
12:45pm -
Get Lost In
Loudoun County
Visit
Loudoun—Speaker TBA
1:45pm
-
Break
2:00pm
- Fields of
Gold
Bonnie
Riedesel, Executive Director, Central Shenandoah Planning District
Commission
3:00pm
-
Break
3:15pm
- Clinch River
Initiative and the Crooked Road
Todd
Christensen, Executive Director, Southwest Virginia Cultural Heritage
Commission
4:15pm
-
Conclusion
A registration form with
detailed agenda is also attached.
4 CM
/ 4 AIA LU’s offered"
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