Creative Communities Initiative

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Creative Communities Initiative

• A Foundation of Renewal for Eastern North
  Carolina project

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Eastern North Carolinas Evolution Growing
Awareness

• Raleigh NO summer series
• ENC Coastal Development
• www.newsobserver.com/1233.index.html
• Dr. John Kasarda Op-Ed
• Make a Mecca for People with Money
• http//www.newsobserver.com/164/story/426735.html
  
• Center for Regional Economic Competitiveness
• UNC School of Government Promising Practices in
  Economic Development in Eastern North Carolina
• http//www.sog.unc.edu/friends/pdfs/PromisingPract
  ices.pdf
• Business North Carolina ENC CEO Roundtable
• http//www.businessnc.com/archives/2005/10/far_eas
  t.html
• Federal Reserve Bank Region Focus
• http//www.richmondfed.org/publications/economic_r
  esearch/region_focus/winter_2005/feature4_sidebar.
  cfm
• Wikipedia Inner Banks entry
• http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inner_Banks

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Eastern North Carolina Growing Awareness

• U.S. Senator Elizabeth Dole Each and every
  town and county in Eastern North Carolina has
  something unique to offerFoR ENC has shown that
  it is dedicated to ensuring that Eastern North
  Carolina can compete with the bigger, more
  established brands and bring new investment, new
  energy, new commitment to the region.
• U.S. Senator Richard Burr The communities in
  (ENC) are already intertwined economically,
  culturally, and sociallyFoR ENCs concept to
  market these disparate parts as a wholethe Inner
  Bankshelps create cohesion that attracts
  investmentI applaud the efforts and successes of
  FoR ENC in bringing enthusiasm, hard work, and a
  spirit of entrepreneurship to the region.

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• Make a mecca for people with money
• JOHN D. KASARDA, Special to the News Observer
• North Carolina has lost more than 300,000
  manufacturing jobs since 1995. Many have been in
  the depressed counties east of I-95. The periodic
  announcements locating a Nucor steel facility in
  Hertford County or Cheesecake Factory bakery in
  Rocky Mount are therefore welcome news. Yet such
  gains are overwhelmed by far more frequent plant
  closings in the region.
• Recruiting large plants is difficult when we
  have to compete against other states and global
  forces. It is also costly to taxpayers, given the
  huge incentives required to attract a new plant.
  Additional sources of economic development are
  needed.
• If not plants, then what? People.

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Sandy Point, NC

• Creative Community development along the IBX

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Sandy Point, NC

• Duany Plater-Zyberk, Architects

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Best Practices

• Seaside, Florida, by Duany Plater-Zyberk

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Creative Communities Initiative Objectives

• Educate and Inform
• Characteristics of Creative Communities
• Assess Capacity
• Identify participant priorities
• Identify resources
• Alternatives to Industrial Recruitment
• Facilitate Creative Community Development
• Achievable plans for six towns
• ENC as a Creative Destination

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Creative Communities, Creative Economies
Ref Creative Economy Council
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Creative Communities Initiative Implementation

• Comprehensive community-centered charrettes
• Blueprint (business plan) for each community
• Act on identified priorities

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Creative Communities Initiative Along the Inner
Banks

• Ayden, Edenton, Hertford, Murfreesboro, Plymouth,
  Tarboro
• Population in aggregate 29,000
• Mix of development challenges
• Approx. 27 of total population lives below
  poverty line

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Creative Communities Initiative Ayden

• Incorporated 1891
• 2000 Population 4,622
• Poverty Rate 26.3
• Median Household Income 24,004

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Ayden
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Creative Communities Initiative Edenton

• Incorporated 1715
• 2000 Population 5,394
• Poverty Rate 25.1
• Median Household Income 25,241

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Edenton
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Creative Communities Initiative Hertford

• Incorporated 1758
• 2000 Population 2,070
• Poverty Rate 39.2
• Median Household Income 19,681

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Hertford
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Creative Communities Initiative Murfreesboro

• Incorporated 1787
• 2000 Population 2,045
• Poverty Rate 18.6
• Median Household Income 29,716

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Murfreesboro
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Creative Communities Initiative Plymouth

• Incorporated 1787
• 2000 Population 4,107
• Poverty Rate 37.5
• Median Household Income 17,281

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Plymouth
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Creative Communities Initiative Tarboro

• Incorporated 1760
• 2000 Population 11,138
• Poverty Rate 15.3
• Median Household Income 34,400

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Tarboro
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Creative Communities Initiative Workshop Series
Themes

• Quality of place
• Technology
• Education
• Design, land planning, role of real estate
  development
• Financing
• Branding, image development

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Creative Communities Initiative Project
Structure

• June 2006 ? May 2008
• Bi-monthly meetings
• Workshop series
• Development of community blueprints
• Identification of financial resources

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Creative Communities Initiative Project Teams

• CCI Creative Community Councils
• FoR ENC
• Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private
  Enterprise
• Kenan-Flagler Business School
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Creative Communities Initiative Resources
Needed

• Town Project Management
• facilitate CCC work
• assist in development of blueprints
• Technical Development
• content development
• workshop coordination

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Creative Communities Initiative IBX Management
Plan

• Promote regional approach ENC as creative
  destination
• Leverage economic potential of the region
  aggregate resources
• Develop, market and manage the IBX brand

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Creative Communities Initiative IBX
Branding

• A strategic plan for marketing and management of
  the IBX brand
• attract investment and intellectual capital
• promote region as creative destination
• entrepreneurship
• business development
• relocation (creative workforce, affluent early
  retirees)
• tourism, with emphasis on talent recruitment

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Creative Communities Initiative IBX Management
Plan Anticipated Outcomes

• Business Plan
• Identifies organizational models
• Research Triangle Foundation?
• Super-regional entertainment, tourism authority?
• Real estate development/management company?
• Hybrid?
• Funding sources
• Financial pro forma
• Management
• Sustainability

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Creative Communities Initiative

• Regional Transformation
• A Foundation of Renewal for Eastern North
  Carolina project