2010 Best Practices Conference
"Reinventing our Region through
Redevelopment, Regeneration, and Reinvestment"
May 5-7, 2010
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
A view from the 3rd Ward Walking Tour!
Thank you to our presenters, sponsors, and conference attendees!
A great learning and networking opportunity was had by all who attended the MAEDC Best Practices Conference in Milwaukee! We were pleased to partner with the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) to offer a pre-conference seminar on TIF. Topics included guiding principles, understanding your state’s TIF statute, TIF bond issuance and structure, a TIF case study, and building community partnerships to support the utilization of this economic development tool. This was followed the next morning with the official start of the day and one-half conference.
Topics included the following:
- Case study of the Menomonee Valley Partners, Inc. – Take Away: Sustainable urban redevelopment to maximize economic development gains
- Evaluation of a large regional economic development model based around the City of Milwaukee - Take Away: Realigning resources through regional collaboration
- Panel discussion on a return to buy local campaigns – Take Away: Tools to leverage the purchase of home grown food by local food buyers to keep money recirculating in local economies
- Luncheon keynote by James Russell, President of Pizzuti Solutions LLC – Take Away: Examination of changes in the real estate climate
- Real Estate panel discussion – Take Away : Economic forecast of the industrial and commercial real estate market for the rest of 2010
- Building Support for Economic Development Organizations – Take Away: Tips on performance monitoring
- Economic Gardening through the Edward Lowe Foundation – Take Away: How to support second stage companies in our regions
- Trends in Business Financing – Take Away: Importance of Angel and Private Equity Firms for capital as well as management teams and advisors
- Midwest Regional Rail Initiative update – Take Away: $3 billion provided to MAEDC region to build out high speed passenger rail
In addition, attendees were able to enjoy an educational walk through a Milwaukee downtown BID, experience food and spirits at the Public Market, reconnect with colleagues and make new friends.
We hope to see you all at the Competitive Conference, December 5-7 in the Windy City!
Barb Fleisner, 2010 Best Practices Conference Chairperson
Barb Fleisner, Ashley Behrendt, and Brian Vasa
One of our conference sponsors - Voltedge!
2010 Best Practices Conference Testimonial
I want to say how very glad I am to have invested the last couple of days with MAEDC. The iPod is great (such a cool gift) and I shall enjoy it tremendously of course. The greater value though, for me, is in learning from experienced practitioners and recognizing the strong shared values that obviously exist between MAEDC members and within our own communities. It's pretty inspiring really.
The conference agenda was a large part of my decision to attend and I learned something significant from each of the speakers. I particularly enjoyed Jim Russell's talk on Thursday, Mark Lange's presentation on Economic Gardening, and the MWSRA vision of High Speed Rail Friday, and freely admit the financially focused topics were the most instructive. It also was very refreshing to see metro Milwaukee and the M7 region through the eyes of others as it was presented by Laura, Pat, Robert & Peter.
Thank you again for your professionalism and dedication and please extend my appreciation to the planning committee - very nicely done!
Sincerely,
Cate Rahmlow
Economic Development Specialist
EDA Disaster Recovery Project
WI Department of Commerce
2010 Best Practices Conference Presentations
Conference Program/Schedule of Events - reference this document for the full schedule/timeline, session titles/descriptions, and speaker info.
Thank you to our Best Practices Conference Sponsors!
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