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Gillibrand organizes economic summit
Business meeting aims to encourage growth in the Capital Region
by Chris Churchill,
Albany Times Union
June 26, 2007
ALBANY -- Business leaders and U.S.
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand announced Monday they will hold an economic
summit designed to create a plan for growth in the Capital Region
and beyond.
Slated Aug. 14 in Saratoga Springs, the event should draw at least
200 people, said Gillibrand, D-Greenport. One focus of the meeting
will be developing the region's high-technology infrastructure.
Appropriately enough, then, representatives from Advanced Micro
Devices Inc., the company considering the construction of a $3.2
billion computer chip plant in Saratoga County, are expected to
attend, Gillibrand said.
Planning for the summit began Monday morning, when Gillibrand and
business leaders gathered at 74 State, a downtown Albany hotel, to
discuss topics to be addressed.
Among those at the meeting were representatives from local chambers
of commerce and companies such as IBM Corp. and Plug Power Inc. F.
Michael Tucker, chief executive of the Center for Economic Growth,
an Albany-based regional economic development group, also attended,
and said later he was pleased by what he heard.
Tucker said getting business leaders together should prove a
valuable exercise.
Gillibrand is organizing the summit with
the Public Forum Institute, a Washington, D.C., group
that helps members of Congress arrange such events.
Gillibrand said likely topics include how to empower entrepreneurs,
how to prevent traffic congestion when growth occurs, and how to tap
into research at local universities.
She said the summit will focus on economic growth in the region of
eastern New York stretching from the northern New York City suburbs
to the Canadian border.
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