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Tuscaloosa, Alabama <br />The Chamber-led Challenge 21 VISIONING and Strategic Planning Process is making <br />excellent progress. To date, we have been very pleased and gratified at the outstanding citizen <br />participation achieved and the efficiency of the process we are using. <br /> Bill Lanford July 1996 <br /> Chairman-Challenge 2 I-VISION <br /> Tuscaloosa, Alabama <br /> <br />Spartanburg, South Carolina <br />Henry, we keep the VISION document in front of our Board at least annually for our planning <br />process. <br /> The Visions Program has made a difference for Spartanburg. It has helped us think bigger <br />and more positive. The proof is in the doing: TW Services (Spartan Food Systems) has its new <br />18 story corporate headquarters downtown and nearly 1,000 employees in the center city; voters <br />just approved an $11 million referendum for a new downtown library; a Cultural Center <br />Foundation has been organized and is planning a downtown project; and BMW, which will have <br />its administrative support headquarters in our downtown for at least the next two years. We're <br />still working on a downtown hotel, road and water/sewer improvements. <br /> F. Ben Haskew, Jr. CCE November 12, 1992 <br /> President <br /> Spartanburg Area Chamber of Commerce <br /> <br />Charlotte, North Carolina <br />One of the unique things about the process was just that:- the process. We had no draft to start <br />with. We brought these 51 strong voices together and we started out in a fully participatory <br />manner. And so the VISIONS became an affirmative statement of what we hoped the <br />community would see sometime early in the 21st century. <br /> Bill Lee October 13, 1985 <br /> Chairman-Duke Power Company Charlotte Observer <br /> Chairman- Charlotte VISIONS Task Force <br /> Charlotte, North Carolina <br /> <br />A group from Orange County, North Carolina made a city visit to Charlotte in 1993. A week <br />later, one of the participants was shown the 1985 VISION for a Greater Charlotte. Ted <br />Abernathy said to Henry Luke "This document was not mentioned in Charlotte, but they talked <br />constantly about the importance of their shared VISION and all of the elements of the shared <br />VISION described during our visit are in this 1985 VISION document" This is an example of a <br />VISION being broadly shared by the community and then over time becoming reality. <br /> Ted Abernathy ]'une, 1993 <br /> Director of the Orange County Economic Development Commission <br /> Chapel Hill, North Carolina <br /> <br />15 LPI <br /> <br /> <br />