"Navigating Economic Development Opportunities and Challenges in Regional Planning"

Randy Blankenhorn
Executive Director
Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning

 Wednesday, August 26, 2009, Noon
The Tower Club, 20 North Wacker Drive - 39th Floor
Chicago, Illinois

This event will focus on the economic-development aspects of the GO TO 2040 comprehensive regional plan, which the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP) is developing with partners and residents across the seven-county region.

  • Are you interested in how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, also known as the Federal economic stimulus, is affecting the Chicago metropolitan area? CMAP is playing a coordinating role to help the region take advantage of these resources.
  • Do you wonder how your community will look in the decades to come? How your community fits into the overall region? CMAP is partnering with local officials, residents and design firms to visualize how certain alternative scenarios could shape the region using a dozen municipalities as case studies.
  • Would you like to know more about how industry clusters shape the regional economy? Focusing on CMAP's recently released Regional Industrial Cluster Analysis report.

These and other matters will be part of Randy Blankenhorn's presentation at the EDC's August 26 luncheon, titled "Navigating Economic Development Opportunities and Challenges in Regional Planning."

Randy is the Executive Director of CMAP, which is responsible for land use and transportation planning across the counties of Cook, DuPage, Kane, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will. He has over twenty years of experience in planning and development with the Illinois Department of Transportation and other state and regional agencies before joining CMAP.

The luncheon is a noon, at the Tower Club, 39th floor, 20 North Wacker Drive, Chicago. The cost of the lunch and program is $35 for EDC members and $50 for non-members. There is no charge for EDC Corporate and Sustaining Members.

Reservations are mandatory. To register online, prepay by clicking one of the links below.

EDC Members click here to pay on-line.
Non Members click here to pay on-line.