A Community Town Hall will be held from 6:30-8:30 Wednesday, June 21 at the Hazel Harvey Peace Center for Neighborhoods to discuss Fort Worth’s first economic development strategic plan.
Fort Worth City Council is working with Austin and Seattle-based TIP Strategies and their partners, as well as with community input from surveys conducted through May 26 to develop the plan.
TIP Strategies has more than 20 years of experience with ED plans in more than 200 communities across 38 states and four countries. TIP Strategies offers strategic planning, workforce assessment and economic analysis, which they presented to the Council on April 11.
At the meeting, TIP Strategies presented a list of goals it and the city of Fort Worth have for the ED plan to accomplish:
-Emerge as one of America’s most livable cities
-Compete regionally, nationally and internationally
-Build on the city’s economic base
-Establish new business opportunities and clusters
-Workforce development
-Attract talent (quality of place)
-Major infrastructure projects (Trinity River Vision, TEX Rail, High Speed Rail)
-Attract new investment
-Entrepreneurial ecosystem
-Support women- and minority-owned businesses
-Formal strategy, with metrics and tools
The meeting should give community members, stakeholders and Council an update on where TIP Strategies stands with their three-part plan of discovery, opportunity and implementation. The discovery phase of surveying, analytics and assessments is to have been completed in April, and we should be at the tail end of the opportunity phase – guiding principles, modeling, analysis and workshopping – and at the beginning of the implementation phase. The implementation phase is the last component, set to be completed at the end of August and includes the final structure, alignment and implementation of the ED plan.
The meeting will also be live-streamed for those who cannot attend.
http://fortworthtexas.gov/edplan/