A collaboration among the University of Alabama, the state's two-year college system, AIDT and Mercedes-Benz could be the first tangible action from a new statewide economic development strategic plan.
Members of the Alabama Economic Development Alliance met, in private, for the first time last week since the Accelerate Alabama plan was unveiled in Birmingham in late January. The goal now is to begin implementing elements of the plan to ensure it doesn't become just another document collecting dust on a shelf.
The 76-page Accelerate Alabama plan includes 33 pages of what are called "accelerators" -- actions that need to be accomplished if the plan is to be fully realized. Among them:
Recruitment efforts that provide a trained work force ready to meet the needs of future prospects, sites with infrastructure ready for new industry, incentives and financing options, as well as a strategy for global recruitment and lead generation;
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