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APEG API Annual Meeting Tuesday June 25th-Reserve your tickets now
On behalf of Appalachian Partnership for Economic Growth (APEG) and our partner organization, Appalachian Partnership Inc. (API), I’d like to personally invite you to our first-ever ANNUAL MEETING next month. We’ll reflect, celebrate successes, recognize partners and present the final Regional Economic Development Prosperity Plan that’s in the final stages of development. Because the region is so vast, two meetings are scheduled–one in the north […]
Strawberry Fields……What was expected vs. What we got
When you don’t take yourself seriously, why should anyone else? Some outside groups know we lack the apparatuses to enforce our own standards and in knowing this, they can get away with what Strawberry Fields is getting away with. It’s a familiar story in these parts of the country. A developer claims to be constructing […]
Development Potential Hindered by Sewer Fears
There’s no simple way to put it other than to just say it, the City of Marietta and surrounding community’s ability to help existing companies expand and to attract new business is extremely limited. Through a combination of difficult topography, floodplain issues, and general lack in infrastructure, my job as the economic development director for […]
Upcoming Events
APEG/API Annual Meeting
June 25 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm