The AdvantageWest board of directors will meet for its regular bimonthly meeting on Thursday, Dec. 8 at 2 p.m. at the AdvantageWest offices, located at 134 Wright Brothers Way in Fletcher, N.C., adjacent to the Asheville Regional Airport.
AdvantageWest is the regional economic development partnership serving the 23 westernmost counties of N.C., including Polk County. Chartered by the state General Assembly in 1994, AdvantageWest is a nonprofit, public-private partnership. Board meetings are open to the public. For more information call AdvantageWest at 828-687-7234.
AdvantageWest focuses on advanced manufacturing; entrepreneurial development activities such as Blue Ridge Entrepreneurial Council (BREC) and the Certified Entrepreneurial Community Program®; Blue Ridge Food Ventures, a food business and natural products incubator and commercial kitchen; the green-collar jobs initiative, AdvantageGreen; and the Western North Carolina Film Commission.
Visit www.advantagewest.com for more information.
– article submitted by Kathi Petersen