South Cobb may reap major benefits, like better education and a rebranded identity, from the Chamber's Cobb EDGE initiative.
South Cobb may soon have more of a competitive EDGE if the Cobb Chamber of Commerce’s economic development strategy, Cobb Competitive EDGE, meets its target goals. Cobb Chamber COO Demming Bass spoke about the Chamber's somewhat controversial economic development strategy, Cobb Competitive EDGE, to a group of about 100 business owners, community members, candidates and stakeholders at the South Cobb Business Association’s April luncheon on Tuesday. “Economic development is a team sport,” Bass said. “It’s not something that just the chamber does or something that just the county economic development office does or the cities do. It’s something that all of us do.” Because this economic development strategy is meant to be a proactive …
The five-year EDGE project is designed to address job creation, entrepreneurship, cultivating community and "a sense of place" as well as marketing Cobb County and "projecting a positive image."
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Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Should Cobb taxpayer money be used to help spur economic development in the county? That's a bet Cobb commission chairman Tim Lee is hedging as he pledged last week to help fund a major initiative by the Cobb Chamber of Commerce. But South Cobb Commissioner Woody Thompson, a steering committee members, spoke out against the proposal, according to a report in The Marietta Daily Journal on Friday, saying the county should continue its economic development in-house. He also said the county has a balanced budget and does not have the money right now for the initiative. The Chamber initiative, called Competitive EDGE (Economic Development for a Growing Economy), would come with a still-to-be-determined contribution from Cobb government. The …
