I think the Research Coast is more prominent this year. |
If you don't want to compete, you will continue to be a bedroom community, a bedroom region, for somebody else. |
If you're going to be Johnny-come-lately into this deal... well, gee whiz, you don't have to try and steal stuff from us. |
In economic development, there are really at least two competitions: One is to get into the game and the next is to win. I think this will get us into the game a lot more often. |
It's just a ringing endorsement from a well-respected school. You've got to build an extremely strong foundation to do the kinds of things we're trying to do. You can't be missing any of the pieces. |
It's not like they didn't know, and it's not like we didn't ask them to be a part of it. |
It's putting us on the national stage, where we'd like to be. I think it let's a lot more people know about us. |
This is what we have been trying to position ourselves for over the last two years. We have been working to put ourselves in the position to compete. |