2018 YEAR IN REVIEW - Florida's Great Northwest

[Pages:4]2018 YEAR IN REVIEW

BUILDING MOMENTUM

DeFuniak Springs

Gulf Breeze

Lynn Haven

Key Industry Clusters

GOALS

PROMOTE

Diversify and Grow Northwest Florida's Economy

COLLABORATE

ADVOCATE

Strategically promote NWFL as a top business location

Generate interest in NWFL and action among businesses planning to relocate and expand

Support local economic developers in the business development process of influencing companies to locate and expand in NWFL

Implement Northwest Florida FORWARD - a regional strategy to diversify and grow NWFL's economy

Promote North Florida (I-10 from Pensacola to Jacksonville) as a corridor for manufacturing, distribution and logistics companies

Support the 4-state (FL, AL, MS, LA) partnership promoting the southeastern U.S. as an Aerospace and Aviation hub

Ensure BP funds remain dedicated to NWFL and to economic development initiatives

Support legislative priorities that impact NWFL's business economy, including the priorities of EFI, FEDC, and the rural communities of Opportunity Florida

Support EDOs in sharing the importance of economic development to local stakeholders

ORGANIZATIONAL SUSTAINABILITY

Ensure the organization remains viable with strong membership, on-target goals, sufficient human and financial resources, external awareness of services provided, and an ideal return on investment.

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PROMOTE

n Helped our utilities and local EDO partners meet with a total of 148 site consultants and business prospects in New York, New Jersey, Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Southern California, United Kingdom and Germany.

n Generated 19 leads, 11 of which were competitive projects that could generate 1,014 new jobs.

n Supported site visits for three competitive projects (Project Maple, Project Mastermind, Project Nemo) and a site consultant.

n Completely revamped the FGNW website, making it mobilefriendly and adding a lead tracking system.

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MEETINGS WITH SITE CONSULTANTS AND BUSINESS PROSPECTS

n Nearly doubled awareness of the region's business advantages and exposure for FGNW through the FGNW website and others, including Northwest Florida FORWARD, Northwest Florida Made and the North Florida Corridor websites.

n Created new impactful marketing materials for local partners to use for meetings with prospects and site consultants.

KEY INDUSTRIAL SITES

Milton

Bonifay DeFuniak Springs

Chipley

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ST. JOE SITE

NORTHWEST FLORIDA MAP

Port St. Joe

Apalachicola

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HOLMES

331

231

JACKSON

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SANTA ROSA

CSX

90

90

10 OKALOOSA

WALTON

90

331 98

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10 BAYL WASHINGTON

231 CALHOUN BAY

GULF

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319

FRANKLIN 98

Airports Deep-water Port

Air Force Bases Naval Bases

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KY TN

VA NC

SC

AL

GA

MS LA

Tampa

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COLLABORATE

n Held our first anniversary event to celebrate the launch of the Northwest Florida FORWARD regional strategy with nearly 100 leaders from across the Panhandle.

n Supported FORWARD Council Chairs and their efforts to gain grassroots support to implement initiatives laid out in the regional strategy, such as:

Talent: Updating CareerPathways data to get students on to desired career paths

Business Vitality: Developing a regional expedited permitting process

Infrastructure: Aligning infrastructure planning with the region's needs

n Supported the Aerospace Alliance - a 4-state partnership between Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana - at the Farnborough International Air Show and the Annual Summit.

n Launched the North Florida Corridor website, , along with direct marketing and advertising efforts to promote the Corridor as a top manufacturing and logistics location.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem map to support the entire Panhandle entrepreneurial community

Quality of Place: Sharing best practices to improve quality of place attributes for all communities

Northwest Florida FORWARD Anniversary Event - March 2, 2018

ADVOCATE

n RISE Fund - Regional Investment Stimulation

$161,335 FOR ADVOCACY

and Enhancement Fund ? The Triumph Board acknowledged the concept of the RISE Fund - utilizing Triumph dollars to reimburse communities for non-abatable property taxes - as a viable use of the funds; Creating a new regional incentive tool that could support

n Raised funds and managed government relations business attraction and expansion.

firm to ensure the Triumph dollars remained

dedicated to Northwest Florida.

n Promoted Triumph and Job Growth Grant Fund awards through email, the website and social media, showcasing how awards are beneficial to businesses

and help grow Northwest Florida's economy.

TRIUMPH GULF COAST & FLORIDA JOB GROWTH GRANT FUND INVESTMENTS

SUSTAINABILITY

n FGNW created the Florida's Great Northwest Foundation to provide a mechanism under which the Northwest Florida FORWARD regional strategy can formally exist.

n An Endowment for the FGNW Foundation was also created. FGNW received $403,650, the first of two payments, as a result of its BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill claim, which will be FGNW's initial contribution to the Endowment.

n $440,750 in membership dues were received from 62 investors (13% increase in the number of members over last year).

n Reorganized FGNW to better focus its efforts on business development to generate opportunities to compete for job creation projects and hired a new Business Intelligence and Marketing Manager.

n Launched a new regional reception strategy to build awareness of the organization and support fund raising efforts.

$807,300 BP SETTLEMENT FUNDS

VISION

A diverse and vibrant regional economy where Northwest Florida residents and businesses have a wealth of opportunities.

MISSION

Florida's Great Northwest is the regional economic development organization that serves as the unified voice for Northwest Florida through advocacy, collaboration and promotion of the 12-county area as a top business location.

FLORIDA'S GREAT NORTHWEST INVESTORS

AT&T Bank of America Baptist Health Care Barker Williams Baskerville-Donovan Bay EDA BB&T Beggs & Lane Bit-Wizards Buffalo Rock CareerSource Chipola CareerSource Escarosa Career Source Gulf Coast CareerSource Okaloosa Walton Cat Country 98.7/News Radio 1620 CBRE Chipola College Clark Partington Duke Energy Duncan McCall EDC of Okaloosa County

Engineered Cooling Farm Credit of Northwest Florida Florida State University FloridaWest Fort Walton Machining Goldring Gulf Distributing Gulf Coast State College Gulf County EDC Gulf Power Hancock Whitney HCA Healthcare Hewes Construction Holmes Co Development Commission Hopping, Green & Sams Jackson County Development Council Kilberg & Associates LandrumHR McMahon & Hadder Melvin Engineering Morris-Depew Associates, Inc. Navy Federal Credit Union

Northwest Florida State College Opportunity Florida Pen Air Federal Credit Union Pensacola International Airport Pensacola State College PowerSouth Regions Sacred Heart Health System Saltmarsh, Cleaveland & Gund Santa Rosa Economic Development SunTrust Terracon The Lewis Bear Company The St Joe Company Trustmark University of West Florida Vertex Aerospace Walton County EDC Warren Averett White Construction

MEASURES

$1,071,532

Total Revenue

$161,335

Advocacy Funds Collected

148

Facilitated Interactions

19

Leads Generated

11

Projects Supported

23,739

Website Visitors

47,107

Webpages Viewed

1,196

Sites/Buildings Viewed Online

2,132

Social Friends/Followers

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