Moving forward despite Irma
September 12, 2017 – Justin Moorhead
One of my favorite maxims is “never let a crisis go to waste”. Why does this speak to me? It reminds me that there is opportunity in the most challenging of situations. The emphasis is not on any crisis. It is the opportunity that each crisis represents for change. Crisis focuses our attention. In the…
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Re-Thinking Development to Include Inclusion and Place
September 8, 2017 – Justin Moorhead
Power Point presentation associated with Justin Moorhead’s keynote address to the 2017 VI Economic Development Beneficiary Summit and 45th Anniversaty Event on St. Thomas, August 29, 2017, and St. Croix, August 31, 2017.
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Is tax increment financing an easy fix for financing project development?
August 16, 2017 – Christopher Visentin
The Water Island project development demonstrates the need for heightened transparency in government-funded projects. The increased attention and questions surrounding the five-star hotel development and associated facilities on Water Island demonstrates the need for analysis and transparency for all public projects, and private/public projects in particular. The development has been in the planning stages since…
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Climate Change. Do we need to be concerned?
August 9, 2017 – Justin Moorhead
Two recent articles by Amaziah George of the State of the Territory caught my attention. Both addressed the issue of climate change. Both spoke to my concern that as a community we are not appropriately focused on how climate change will impact our lives and livelihood and what should we be doing, now, to prepare…
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Cruise Tourism and the Destination; Reconciling Divergent Realities
July 24, 2017 – Christopher Visentin
For many port communities, large-scale cruise tourism plays an outsized role in the local economy. Impressively large cruise ships—some delivering more than four thousand five hundred tourists at a time—dominate waterfronts, skylines, and communities, from Greece to the Caribbean islands. These numbers and their influence are hard to ignore. A 2013 Report produced for the…
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