Editorial: "Uplifting numbers on Boeing"

The May 30th, 2010 edition of Charleston's The Post and Courier features an editorial entitled "Uplifting numbers on Boeing." 

Nexsen Pruet's economic development team played a key role in the negotiations between The Boeing Company and the State of South Carolina.

The editorial begins:

America's gross domestic product grew by only 3 percent in the first quarter of the year. That's significantly less than initially anticipated, and not nearly enough to herald a strong enough economic rebound to remove the troubling first word of the ongoing "jobless recovery."

The April unemployment rate in our state, though more than half a percentage point below March's, was still painfully high at 11.6 percent.

Fortunately, though, there really is some very encouraging economic news for our community -- and our state: A new study has re-confirmed the well-grounded expectation that Boeing's ongoing move to North Charleston will provide a powerful economic uplift, not just in the Charleston area but throughout South Carolina.

Read more here from The Post and Courier.

Led by Leighton Lord and Billy Wilkins, the firm’s Economic Development team, including Ric Tapp, Burnie Maybank and Stephanie Eames worked with Boeing officials to negotiate the incentives package approved by the South Carolina legislature.