Asheville HUB
an interactive workshop
Dave Brown
HUB Interim Executive Director
August 21, 2007
Shirley Tenney, Class Representative
HUB Overview
• Vision of What Asheville Can Become
• Catalyst for Getting There
• Strategies
– Coordination (City, Towns, County,
State, Chamber)
– Clusters
– Collaboration
• Organization
– Board
– Cabinet
– Website
• Fact Sheet
Region,
The leaders are on board!
K. Ray Bailey
Terry Bellamy
Janice Brumit
Robin Cape
Dale Carroll
Jack Cecil
Steve Cochran
Joe Damore
Scott Dedman
Cliff Dodson
Joyce Dorr
Vernon Dover
Wanda Greene
John Hunter
Gary Jackson
Robert Logan
Rick Lutovsky
Kim MacQueen
William Massey
David McConville
Cheryl McMurry
Doug Orr
Mack Pearsall
Anne Ponder
Nathan Ramsey
Bob Roberts
Pat Smith
Virgil Smith
Alan Thornburg
David Young
HUB Cabinet
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Becky Anderson, Handmade in America
Dave Brown, HUB
Adrienne Crowther, Asheville Area Arts Council
Ray Denny, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
Jim Fox, UNCA
Brian Moore, Mission Hospitals
Ed Katz, UNCA
Sharon Morrissey, AB Tech
Sam Powers, City of Asheville
Max Queen, AB Tech
Kenneth Reeves, NC Coop Extension
Tom Tveidt, Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce
Alliance’s HUB Project
Asheville and Buncombe County’s
COLLABORATIVE, SUSTAINABLE, INTENTIONAL
community, cultural, and economic
development strategy
brown@wfu.edu
HUB described by NCCCR
Workshop Participants
• HUB is the catalyst to shape Asheville &
Buncombe County’s future to ensure a
sustainable high quality of life for all---Beth
• Musical conductor. Engine for collaboration.
• Cooperative catalyst growing out of a vision to
effect responsible sustainable growth and
development.
• Attitude of organizational and individual
cooperation that links all of us to grow together.
• Collaborative visionary catayst striving to ensure
quality sustainable future for everyone.
Without HUB we would not have
• High Speed Computing ($1.5M, RENC)
• 1st Geek-like Collaboration for Development
• 30 business plans for new ventures (CTC)
• SEO Analysis of Clean Energy Cluster in WNC
• Downtown Farmers’ Market
• Proposed Fed Appropriation for Clean Energy Business
Incubator at AB Tech
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Not Have Without HUB---continued
• Plan for a climate/weather museum attraction
• Climate Emphasis (designation as NOAA
community)
• Developing sustainability metrics
• As much networking & synergistic knowledge
sharing
•National buzz attracting tourists, businesses, creative class,
professionals, students & retirees, but it will not be sustained without
bold, collaborative action
HUB’s Focus =
Competitive Advantage +
Collaboration +
Hot Themes +
Equitable Impact
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We have a great vision—
to better jobs & higher quality of life
By Cluster
Manufacturing
Land-Agriculture
Enterprise-Entrepreneurship
Branding-Marketing
Rejuvenation- MindBodySoul
Creativity-Arts
Technology-Visualization
By Geography
Metrics--1. Economic Prosperity (Jobs, Wages, Investment)
2. Social Responsibility (Housing, Middle Class)
3. Cultural Dynamism (#artists,ticket receipts)
4. Environmental Stewardship (Sustainability)
------------------------*3 data sets for each of the above 4 objectives
*Each index weighted 75% for prime variables
and 25% for variables from other objectives
Business Clusters – Traditional
Manufacturing
Cluster
Land-Agriculture
Cluster
Enterprise
Cluster
Manufacturi
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Retain productive manufacturing
facilities
Attract advanced manufacturing
concerns
Enterprise
Build entrepreneurial support
system & services
LandAgriculture
Expand public open space &
enhance amenities
Leverage rural communities
Preserve farmlands
Diversify agriculture (e.g.,
organics & horticulture)
Business Clusters – Other
Creative
Cluster
Rejuvenation
Cluster
Technology
Cluster
Creative
Upgrade cultural facilities
Establish international handmade
design centers
Promote customization
Technology
Complete broadband & high
performance computing
infrastructure
Become international center for
computing climatic and
environmental data
Create Digital Media Center
Promote secure data storage &
retrieval industry
Rejuvenation
Establish national center for
integrative medicine (e.g., alternative
and complementary medicine)
Strengthen position as regional
rejuvenation center, mind and spirit,
eco-sports, natural products
Potential County Projects
• Center for
Environmental
Interpretation
• Broadband
network
expansion
(national Lambda
rail)
• Technology
Commercialization
Center
Potential City Projects
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Wilma Dykeman Parkway
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Center for Environmental
Interpretation
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Digital Media Center
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National Design Center
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Eagle Street Redevelopment
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Health Adventure
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Performing Arts Center
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Civic Center renovation
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Art Museum renovation
A Few Personal Favorites
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Hatchfest
Design Center (Handmade in America)
Climate Initiative (application of data)
River Corridor
I-26 Connector
Keep Asheville Weird
HUB Website
www.ashevillehub.com
Login code:
dbrown
DavE2007
Volunteer Jobs for HUB
(suggested by Dave Brown)
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Board and Cabinet Secretary
Webmaster
HUB representative
Cross Silo Volunteer Coordinator
Chief Communications Officer
Grant Writer
Make up Your Own Job
Volunteer Jobs for HUB
(suggested by Participants)
• Committee to bring out.
• Coordinator of communication.
• Volunteers sell the project at local
meetings
• Educate the community about hub
• Talk to your neighbors. Input from
grassroots.
• Get involved with the look of Asheville
Questions for Break Outs
• List specific actions we might take to
increase the impact of retirees upon the
quality of life (for long term residents) in
Asheville (at least 3)!
• Expand and/or elaborate the list of
volunteer jobs for HUB
• Identify 3 questions to ask Dave Brown,
and then select the 1 that you believe will
be of most interest to the group
Participants’ List of specific actions we might take to
increase the impact of retirees upon the quality of
life (for long term residents) in Asheville
• Volunteering with govt, schools, rsvp, tax assistance,
handy person
• Participate in public hearings, sharing experiences from
elsewhere, etc.
• Utilize life skills of retirees. Match skills with
opportunities. Match-maker. E.g.—provide life skills to
former prisoners, get involved with mediation center.
Use computer skills
• Create a list of skills and opportunities (such as exists at
Hands on Atlanta)
• After school programs, especially teaching special things
Participants’ List of specific actions we might take to
increase the impact of retirees upon the quality of
life (for long term residents) in Asheville
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Retirees want to be asked, feel useful.
Become employed part-time.
Volunteering, especially pro bono.
Support research efforts. Serve as
subjects of research. Collect data re
retirees.
• Retirees are buyers of services, goods.
• Stroke community builders. Affirm and
praise the community they’ve built
Participants’ List of specific actions we might take to
increase the impact of retirees upon the quality of
life (for long term residents) in Asheville
• Add new ideas from others
• Cross generational activities desired by
retirees.
• Encourage new retirees to buy local.
Publicize a trail of local businesses.
• Implement ethnic diversity
Questions for Dave
• Growth limit?
• ABTech jobs to support new masters who
migrate here!
• How can we reduce advocacy and
destructive local arrogance?
• Can’t we fill the transportation gaps, esp
for people from outlying counties
• Would you consider transportation needs
survey?
Questions for Dave
• Why is no one dealing with transportation?
• How do you volunteer for HUB?
• HUB Continuity?
Challenges for Creativity Cluster
(notes from Adrienn’s presentation)
• Hard to measure. Quality of life is part of
our objective.
• Creating visibility for the arts.
• Grassroots grants program
• Getting local govt support for arts
• Need more emphasis on music and dance
• FOAM has JUST organized
• Need rehearsal and performance space
Caucus--- Everyone!
• the most important or interesting thing I
learned today, or
• where I’m having the most trouble
agreeing and/or understanding, or
• the cause you’d like HUB to push, or
• how I would like to volunteer, or
• the points I wish someone had made, or
• any or all of the above.
Caucus Points
• Beth. Care about the little people who fall
through the cracks! Not just wealthy.
• Jim. Transportation infrastructure, e.g.
airport.
• Jim. Labor leaders on your board.
• Keep to be burr in the saddle. Push
people to coordinate and cooperate.
• Sallie. Develop NCDC and related
industries.
Caucus Points
• Diane. Wish we could have learned more
about other clusters.
• John. Tap in to immigrant population.
• Marge. HUB projects seem important.
• Marge. Need to highlight opportunities for
involvement of retirees
• Kathy. Pleased to learn about the
mission. Impressed by # of community
leaders.
Caucus Points
• Ginger. Not sure what I signed up for. Today
some of that feel of vitality is beginning to take
shape. We’re thinking of the big picture. Go for
it!
• Jim. Impressed. Change HUB name to give it
meaning. Need a contest! (Asheville Alive.
Loving Asheville) Hub rep.
• Loise. Important opportunity for me. Life must be
an ongoing vision. Collaborative and catalystic.
• Loise. Prevent growth of the jail and justice
system. Need new life center at the BC
correctional center.
Caucus Points
• Shirley. Impressed by the enormous task. Have
everythng to gain. Need to get knowledge and
understanding out to the people, and get support
(vote, funds).
• Allison. Feel a sense of urgency--- the
developers are on the rampage. Talk with the
developers.
• Jackie. Have concern. Will emphasis still be
there?
• Shirley. New paradigm.
Caucus Points
• Jody. Diversity of organizations.
• Susan. Concern. Chamber of commerce
must not overstep its role in the HUB
project. Transportation……
• Hans. Is enough being done?
• Sherry. Performing Arts Center.