Officials meet about drawing NCR-like companies to Dayton

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By Joanne Huist Smith, Staff Writers Updated 10:05 AM Wednesday, June 17, 2009

DAYTON — City, county and state officials met Tuesday, June 16, to devise a plan to grow the region’s economy by focusing on aerospace, sensors and composites — areas with potential to produce NCR-caliber companies.

The closed meeting at City Hall was led by Lisa Patt-McDaniel, acting director of the Ohio Department of Development.

“We’ve come out of this meeting cooperatively working as partners ... to move Dayton’s economy forward in a positive way,” McDaniel said. “I think that we have come to some agreements about how we are going to work together to ensure that happens.”

City and county officials both had opportunities to present their economic development strategies to state officials.

“What’s more important about those strategies is that they marry up well together around aerospace, around our collective work with trying to get international investment with companies from Israel, around Tech Town and the University of Dayton Research Institute,” Dan Foley, president of the Montgomery County Commission said.

Two themes emerged that will be placed on a fast track. The partners will look “forcefully” during the next few weeks at ways to transform the region into an aviation and aerospace hub of innovation.

The group will also look at ways state economic development incentives can be delivered to the region at a quicker pace.

Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin said 24 people came together for the meeting, including state senators and representatives who took part by phone. U.S. Rep. Mike Turner, R-Centerville and U. S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio sent representatives.

The group plans to reconvene in several weeks.

Patt-McDaniel said the state has made a commitment to return to Dayton to continue the dialogue, defining exactly what an aviation/areospace hub will look like and addressing delivery of state incentives.

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