Sharon Decker

It is as important to us as manufacturing, as it is diversity in wood products, and it is a critical part of who we are and the culture that brings people here.

That was Sharon Decker with Grow NC talking about the impact of the creative economy as it relates to Western North Carolina's Helene recovery.

We discussed this plan a few weeks ago with Dan Gerlach.

We have the full plan available now for download on our website, boomchamber.com.

And they brought in people from across the political spectrum to work on this.

It was kind of headed up by Sharon Decker, who was Commerce Secretary in the McCrory administration.

uh the problem is in a lot of ways this might actually be more difficult than the marshall plan in europe is at least in europe you know france and england had been uh industrial powers before world war ii and so they were trying to restore essentially what had what they'd had before the war what we're trying to do in western north carolina is something that hasn't existed before which is to turn it into an economic powerhouse i think it's worthy goal um The problem is that it's going to take a lot to get there.

Right.

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