High ambition: western leaders look for new ways to level the playing field.
Business North Carolina › Vol. 25 Nbr. 6, June 2005
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FEATURE - Panel Discussion
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High ambition: western leaders look for new ways to level the playing field.
Western North Carolina is a great place to live but a hard place to make a living. Its assets include rugged mountain beauty and a willing work force, but much of it is isolated, geographically and politically. New companies barely keep pace with plant closings. But initiatives such as the Education and Research Consortium, which bonds the region's institutions of higher learning, are bringing a new economic force to bear: high-speed Internet service. Senior Editor Edward Martin recently discussed the region's economy with Anthony Almeida, vice president for economic development of Duke Power Co.; William Cecil Jr., CEO of The Biltmore Co., which owns Biltmore Estate--one of the top tourist attractions in the state--near Ashe...
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