Congratulations to our entrepreneurship partner, Community Ventures Corp, which was just named Kentucky’s SBA Lender of the Year for the 10th time in the last 12 years! We are proud to partner with CVC as they provide professional consulting as well as Jump Start, Micro, and 504 lending to entrepreneurs here in Northwest Kentucky.
We spent our last full day in the CR today driving back to Prague and seeing the city. Unbelievable! It is an amazingly beautiful city. Even with a light drizzle and much cooler temperature it was amazing.
We went to Prague Castle which overlooks city. This labyrinth of more than 1000 years of building and rebuilding, includes a number of state buildings, museums and a breathtaking cathedral. Additionally, it offers breathtaking views of the Charles River and the city down below.
This is the fourth in a series of blogposts from our visit with our sister region in Olomouc, Czech, and participation in meetings and a trade show there
This evening, we drove approximately an hour from Olomouc to the city of Sumperk. It is also in the Olomoucky kraj. It is a beautiful town with a great town square.
We had dinner with the Mayor and Vice Mayor to discuss opening discussions with establishing a sister city relationship between Sumperk and Henderson.
The two cities are actually quite alike. Both areas have roughly the same population and both are home to significant blues festivals! The Mayor and Vice Mayor were very gracious and interested in learning more about Henderson and Northwest Kentucky.
It was a very open and optimistic meeting and I very much hope that we can host a delegation from Sumperk for the Handy Blues Fest in the near future!
This is the third in a series of blogposts from our visit with our sister region in Olomouc, Czech, and participation in meetings and a trade show there.
Interesting discussion last night at dinner. A common theme from the various regions was a desire to focus more on entrepreneurship. Since that is one of our core initiatives at NWKF, I was anxious to discuss the approach of the various regions and see if there were ideas that I could borrow.
This is the second in a series of blogposts from our visit with our sister region in Olomouc, Czech, and participation in meetings and a trade show there.
Each region made presentations this morning on their approaches to economic development and what their areas had to offer. One of the most important insights that I took away from this was how dramatically different most of our European friends approach economic development compared to the NWKF approach specifically, and the American-approach generally.
NWKF is in Olomouc, Czech Republic, this week! We have a sister region relationship with the Olomouc region and have been invited to participate in their “Partner Days” events this week. Along with the greater Green River Region, the Olomouc region partners with similar size regions from France, Serbia, Finland, Hungary, and Poland. In addition to meetings on economic development, we will all be participating in a trade and industry show be sponsored by the City of Olomouc.
Recently, a friend asked me why it seemed like I was always on the road. The reason is two-fold:
1) I AM always on the road!
2) to take the Northwest Kentucky story to companies considering new location decisions and to the consultants who assist companies in making these decisions.
Thanks to the Providence Journal-Enterprise for their coverage of the upcoming Rally 4 Education and the support of Webster County!
NWKF will be in Atlanta this week participating in a number of calls and events. Tonight (Monday) we will be participating in the E.ON US Get Connected reception at Rathbuns. We appreciate E.ON’s economic development team partnering with KentuckyUnited and their communities for this event.
The rest of the week we will be calling on companies as part of the KentuckyUnited team, as well as calling on our own projects in the area.
If you are in the area, we would welcome the chance to meet and talk about all the advantages to doing business in Northwest Kentucky! Give us a call today to schedule an appointment.
Plugged-In’s Energy Week got off to a great start today with two very successful events.
A BioEnergy Symposium sponsored by Plugged In and the Kentucky Energy Cabinet featured a number of speakers focused on the opportunities for BioEnergy in Kentucky, especially in Northwest Kentucky.
