Good points, Brian, however, as former NGA Director Robert Cardillo reminded us at Tech Week this past Monday --- STL is in a fierce competition to become a GEOINT Hub with many other cities & regions & we're just at the starting gate.
Having served as the CEO of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and its economic development arm for nearly two decades --- I'm as bullish as anyone on St. Louis.
Strong aspirations, coupled with a number of core assets, can fuel our efforts to become a GEOINT Hub, just as we began in the BioBelt Plant & Life Sciences Hub back in 2000.
Given the many good initiatives that have been undertaken in that sector over the past two decades, I was surprised to learn at the national ULI Meeting last April just how far we still have to go in the Life Sciences sector.
I agree with John Berglund's comment here that great things could be on the horizon.
The work that John, Jim McKelvey, Steve Stone, and Patty Hagen are doing in FinTech & GEOINT in the emerging innovation district can begin to compete in this sector:
“FinTech+GeoInt Synergies Driving Development in St. Louis.” Geospatial World Magazine | 2023
Good points, Brian, however, as former NGA Director Robert Cardillo reminded us at Tech Week this past Monday --- STL is in a fierce competition to become a GEOINT Hub with many other cities & regions & we're just at the starting gate.
Having served as the CEO of the St. Louis Regional Chamber and its economic development arm for nearly two decades --- I'm as bullish as anyone on St. Louis.
Strong aspirations, coupled with a number of core assets, can fuel our efforts to become a GEOINT Hub, just as we began in the BioBelt Plant & Life Sciences Hub back in 2000.
Given the many good initiatives that have been undertaken in that sector over the past two decades, I was surprised to learn at the national ULI Meeting last April just how far we still have to go in the Life Sciences sector.
I agree with John Berglund's comment here that great things could be on the horizon.
The work that John, Jim McKelvey, Steve Stone, and Patty Hagen are doing in FinTech & GEOINT in the emerging innovation district can begin to compete in this sector:
“FinTech+GeoInt Synergies Driving Development in St. Louis.” Geospatial World Magazine | 2023
https://www.geospatialworld.net/prime/fintechgeoint-synergies-development-st-louis-downtown/
Onward!
--- Dick Fleming, CEO, Community Development Ventures, Inc., St. Louis
A terrific summary of where we have been in St Louis. Hiding in plain sight no more ... great things are on the horizon!