Local Chamber News
Southeast Megaregion Update
Alexandria, VA -
One of ten emerging megaregions in the United States, the Piedmont Atlantic megaregion (PAM), encompasses the Gulf Coast and stretches north to Tennessee and the Carolinas, and includes the cities of Houston, Mobile, Charlotte, Nashville, and Raleigh. Should this expansive and diverse collection of individual communities adopt a regional identity as opposed to working separately to advance their own agendas? Says Win Hallett, CEO of the Mobile (AL) Area Chamber of Commerce, "We're convinced that if we make better informed decisions today with how we develop with all this growth in front of us, the proactive cost will be a fraction of the reactive cost. We are interested in a region because those are the units of competition in the global economy."
Source: Press-Register
Publication Date: February 25, 2008