Heimzeitung - Vinzentiushaus Offenburg GmbH

ADVANTAGE ADIRONDACKS
Advancing Economic Opportunities
Across the Adirondack Park
DECEMBER 2014
A Project of the Adirondack Partnership
www.adirondackstrategies.com
[email protected]
FOCUS OF
ADVANTAGE ADIRONDACKS
 Outline a strategy that views
environmental and economic
sustainability as mutually dependent
and reinforcing;
 Build on recent local and regional
planning initiatives;
 Inform and advance REDC strategies;
 Drive for implementation with a
tactical, practical and achievable
strategy.
WORKSHOP OUTCOMES
 Focus on leadership and capacity
 Leave the conference with action
teams;
 Offer the strategy as guiding work to
steer direction;
 Not a blueprint which needs to be
followed to the letter in order to
work;
 Focus on which tasks are important,
where a difference can be made.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE PARK
PEOPLE-AND-PLACE BASED
ECONOMY
 Accepts current rural realities:
communities reinventing
themselves to compensate for
changing markets;
 Relies less on land
development, large labor
pools, the sheer number of
jobs created and products
marketed;
GOOD NEWS FOR THE PARK
PEOPLE-AND-PLACE BASED ECONOMY
 Relies more on corporate,
community and individual
wealth, wage growth and
product value;
 Overcoming current deficiencies
in broadband and cellular service
is a bottom-line requirement.
STABILIZE THEN REVITALIZE
 The strategy recognizes that rural
communities nationwide are
compensating for changing markets
and demographics including:
 Aging of the population;
 Decline in year-round population;
 Decline in young families (and
young workforce;)
 Some Park communities need to
stabilize before they can revitalize.
COLLABORATION
Collaboration is the “Silver Bullet”
 Across the country and around the
world places are reinventing
themselves to think regionally and
act locally through evolving
strategic collaborations.
 Programs like Common Ground
and others establish the Park as a
model of success and provide a
springboard for action.
NEW ECONOMY REQUIRES
NEW MINDSET
 Place matters more than location.
 Corporate image is important;
 Place based amenities like
scenic beauty, environmental
quality and healthy lifestyle are
draws for business and
workforce;
 BUT lack of reliable broadband
and cellular coverage, hamlet
vacancy, and quality workforce
housing are issues.
NEW MINDSET
 Innovation is critical.
 Creating an environment
where small businesses
can envision new ideas is
critical;
 Commercialize products
and add-value;
 Build on infrastructure like
Innovation Hot Spot.
NEW MINDSET
Bigger is not necessarily better.
 Focus on value of growth rather
than scale;
 Also distributed workforce and
telework;
 Expansion often through
consolidation rather than new
business starts;
 Workforce can live wherever they
want as long as they can connect.
NEW MINDSET
Talent drives decisions.
 Attracting and retaining talent is
critical;
 Partnerships with educational
partners to promote “brain gain;”
 Stimulating a culture of lifelong
learning and the Park’s
longstanding entrepreneurial
spirit.
MILLLENNIALS MATTER
 Millennials or “Generation Y” make up
80 million U.S. residents born between
1980 and 2000;
 Biggest potential target for year-round
residents and new visitors;
 Seek a simpler life in small amenityrich communities. They are:
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environmentally aware;
civic minded;
100% “connected;”
health conscious; and
consumers of “green” and locally
sourced and sustainably produced
food and products.
NEW ECONOMIC MEASURES
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Wage and payroll growth;
Increased business revenues;
Health and wellness statistics;
Alternate energy consumption;
Educational attainment;
Real estate values for year round
properties;
 Level of private capital investment
and leverage;
 Availability of cultural and
recreational assets; and
 Increasing school enrollment.
GOALS
Goal One: Inspire a culture of
entrepreneurship with a globally
competitive workforce and rich
business base.
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Higher education partnerships;
Leadership Adirondacks;
Job satisfaction strategy;
Adult education;
Entrepreneurship K-12+;
Path for new entrepreneurs;
“Brain gain” student retention;
Park-wide small business support;
Teleworking;
LEND local.
GOAL ONE BREAKOUT
Facilitator: Jim Herman
Session Topic:
Develop a Park-wide Adirondack Small
and Microenterprise Business Program.
 Parkwide training, technical assistance
and support program;
 Component for targeted audiences;
 Succeeding in the Park;
 Small business succession planning.
 Small business mentoring;
 Adirondack Teleworks Project;
 Attract environmentally aware
businesses;
 County economic development
capacity.
Goal Two: Promote a
sustainable and connected
rural life and quality
infrastructure.
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Community attachment;
Broadband completion Parkwide;
Community capacity building;
Affordable housing;
Accessible health care;
Revitalized hamlets;
First responder incentives;
Resilient infrastructure;
Adequate water and wastewater;
Brownfield redevelopment.
GOAL TWO BREAKOUT
Facilitator: Cali Brooks
Session Topic:
Energize efforts Park-wide to restore
hamlets as the heart of community
life and centers for economic activity.
 Inventory hamlet resources;
 Invest heavily in hamlets,
including Adirondack Hamlet
Design Guidelines;
 Aging residents’ and visitors’
needs.
GOAL TWO BREAKOUT
Facilitator: Jackie Hakes
Session Topic:
Expand access to water and wastewater
(especially in designated hamlets)
maintain and improve local roads,
bridges, stormwater and other facilities
to the highest possible standard for a
rural region.
 Pilot affordable alternate wastewater
treatment systems;
 Invest in local infrastructure;
 Retrofit “complete streets;”
 Support NYS DOT Corridor Assessments;
 Allow expansion or increased density in
designated hamlets.
Goal Three: Reinvent
traditional industry in forest
products, natural resources
and agriculture.
 Build local mentality/incentives –
ADK Green Building Fund;
 Grow local mentality/incentives –
Made in the Adirondacks Tax Credit;
 Wood pulp/pellet
commercialization/NYS rebates;
 Forest product small business;
 Scale up small farms;
 Promote value added products;
 Support local/regional land
planning.
GOAL THREE BREAKOUT
Facilitator: Ross Whaley
Session Topic:
Advance commercialization and use of
alternate energy sources, especially
biofuel and specifically wood pellet/chip
boilers for residential and commercial
heating sources.
 Rebates for wood pellet boilers;
 Model Neighborhood Demonstration
Project;
 Market demand for chips, wood
pellets, and boilers;
 Solar and small hydro-electric energy.
Goal Four: Advance the Park
as a world class destination.
Anticipate growth in “millennial”
visitors and “geotourists.”
 Implement Adirondack Trail Towns
Initiative;
 Implement a tourism ambassador
program;
 Upgrade and diversify lodging
 Enhance world class sports
recreation facilities;
 Expand ADK recreation portal;
 Unify tourism marketing.
GOAL FOUR BREAKOUT
Facilitator: Jack Drury
Session Topic:
Energize support, finance and
implement an Adirondack Trail
Towns Initiative.
 Plan framework for Adirondack
Trail Towns Initiative;
 Identify lead organization/partners
and local organizational structure;
 Local amenity trail design and
infrastructure;
 Trail Towns business certification;
 Regional marketing;
 Merchant Rewards Card.
FEEDBACK FROM BREAKOUT
GROUPS:
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What steps need to be accomplished
immediately to jumpstart this strategy?
What steps can be accomplished in the near
term (1-3 years?)
Can this strategy be replicated Park-wide?
Are there good models to follow?
What resources are needed to accomplish
this strategy? Are they available?
Are any obstacles anticipated? What are
they?
Who will lead this strategy through
completion?
NEXT STEPS
 Complement implementation strategy
for ADVANTAGE ADIRONDACKS;
 Solicit final input;
 Complete Priority Project
implementation;
 Do. Do. Do.;
 Report implementation plans for key
initiatives at Local Governmental Day
Conference;
 Integrate into REDC process for 2015.
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THANKS TO THE
PROJECT ADVISORS
Peter Aust
Steve Bagetis
Carol Calabrese
Garry Douglas
William Farber
Kim Finnigan
Kate Fish
Mark Hall
Carol Hart
Alan Hipps
 Leslie Irwin
 James McKenna
 Sue Montgomery
Corey
 Rob Riley
 Nick Rose
 Zoë Smith
 Brian Wells
 Evelyn Wood
THANKS TO OUR
FACILITATORS
 Cali Brooks  Jim Herman
 Ross Whaley
 Jack Drury
 Jackie Hakes  Alan Hipps
THANKS TO OUR STATE
PROGRAM MANAGERS
 Dylan Walrath, NYSDEC
 Andy Labruzzo, NYSDOS
RIVER STREET PLANNING
& DEVELOPMENT TEAM
 Margaret Irwin & Monica Ryan
– River Street Planning
 Adele Connors – Adworkshop
 Jason Drebitko – ConsultEcon
 Bruce Hoch – DCG CorPlan
 Jackie Hakes – MJ Engineering
 Jeffrey Ciabatti – Toole Design
PROJECT MANAGERS
 Emily Kilburn & Caroline Hotaling
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www.adirondackstrategies.com
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A Project of the Adirondack Partnership

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