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Join us forWELCOME WALTER DAY!December 1, 2021 Welcome Walter Day gives you 3 opportunities to meet our new Shawnee Forward Economic Development Lead, Walter Baker. Welcome Walter Day Schedule: BreakfastShawnee Forward Lobby 7:15AM – 8:30AMRSVP for Breakfast @ marketing@shawneeforward.com One on One MeetingsShawnee Forward Lobby 9AM – 3PMRSVP for your 30 minute 1:1 Meeting @ marketing@shawneeforward.com Happy HourShawnee Country Club 4PM – 6PMRSVP to Happy Hour @ marketing@shawneeforward.com …
We received this list of proposed economic development legislation and would love to get your feedback. Please download and read through the PDF here. Contact us at ceo@shawneeforward.com if you have something you would like expressed to our local representation regarding these proposed bills.
By Vedrana Milakovic, MBA, CCS Administrative Research Analyst of Planning & Economic Development at Citizen Potawatomi Nation When speaking about Iron Horse, I am often asked how a certified customs specialist can benefit a company manufacturing from one of the central United States’ most strategically placed industrial parks. Each manufacturing company is unique and belongs to different chapters in the …
Pro Pipe USA’s manufacturing site rises in the background of its Iron Horse Industrial Park site in July 2020 . The first tenant at Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s Iron Horse Industrial Park is one step closer to moving product in and out of its foreign-trade zone. Foreign-Trade Zone Board Executive Secretary Andrew McGilvary authorized Pro Pipe USA, LLC’s application of proposed …
U.S. Department of Commerce awards $2.5m for enhanced infrastructure and jobs In late May, the U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration awarded Citizen Potawatomi Nation a $2.5 million grant to help diversify business growth at Iron Horse Industrial Park. “Enhanced infrastructure at the Iron Horse Industrial Park will strengthen the Citizen Potawatomi Nation’s ability to launch new ventures and …
Economic development will not stop environmental sustainability in Indian Country Construction continues at Iron Horse Industrial Park, Wednesday, April 29, 2020. I’m often asked, how is it possible to marry two opposing principles in our mission at the @Iron Horse Industrial Park? The premise of this question is how can we at Citizen Potawatomi Nation truly advocate for environmental stewardship …
The largescale cessation of travel doesn’t mean thought leaders stop finding ways to dialogue. In mid-May, Citizen Potawatomi Nation Planning and Economic Development Director James C. Collard, Ph.D., participated in the International Legal Symposium Concerning Human Rights, The Sustainable Development Goals and the Law, sponsored by the Centre for International Sustainable Development Law with other experts from around the globe. In his …
While there have been a few deadline changes with the 2020 Census, this might be a GREAT time for you to go online and knock that project out. So far the response rate from Pottawatomie County is DISMAL…. That is a highly technical term for low. The latest statistics we saw showed that we had a 15% to 30% …
Hollywood often times likes to portray a hero as someone who is a rugged kind of person, who overcomes insurmountable odds, by themselves, often in an exotic locale. Most of the time we see those kinds of actors in action films where guns are blazing, explosions are taking place and the scene is filled with madness and mayhem. What …
Most days is fairly easy for me to be an optimist. In the business of economic development, we are fortunate to see what is before us more often than those things that impede us. While the COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a big monkey wrench into all of our plans, we WILL overcome this and come roaring back stronger than …