Award time...
The Greensboro Economic Development Partnership celebrated itself today.
The group took credit for a number of expansions:
-- the $10 million expansion of The Volvo Group that supposed to bring in 150 new jobs averaging about $60,000.
-- luring Comair's maintenance facility, along with 253 jobs (no salary listed)
-- and the decision of American Judicature Society to open an institute for Forensic Science and Public Policy that will work closely with the law school.
It's hard to say how much of a role that GEDP played in any of those decisions, however. The AJS would not have come without Elon; and Volvo very likely could have said we're going to expand, but hey everyone is getting incentives so why don't we ask.
In other news -- the group gave the Stanley Frank Lifetime Achievement Award to F. Hudnall Christopher Jr. and Doug Galyon.
Christopher was a chairman of the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority; he retired from RJR Tobacco Co. in 1989 after 30 years in the tobacco, packaging and food industries.
Galyon is chairman of the NC Board of Transportation.