Community Profile: Richmond Region
from Northern Virginia to Richmond to Hampton Roads. That’s where most of the population in the state lives already, but I don’t know what a mega-region is … I know that, to land a project, you’ve got to have a local economic development orga- nization that has product in place, that has answers to the key location questions — access to market, labor force, operating cost — and you’ve got to have product that that the company is looking for … At some point, the locality has to get a deal done, and I think, when you have these kind of conversations about mega-regions, you lose sight of what are really the nuts and bolts of economic development …
Kilduff: I’d like to build on Gary’s point. I’m a firm believer that economic development is regional. The things a prospect is looking for — whether it’s labor or transportation, markets or services that would be provided — are regional … If you just took labor, I don’t think it’s
Kilduff reasonable to think that a labor market
stretches from Virginia Beach to Gooch- land. I think regional [size] is important, but the size we’ve got right now maybe is all you want to say grace over.
Hart: Who are you trying to compete with when [you create a mega-region]? Do you think you’re going to be Shanghai? … We look at the Hampton Roads market because we compete against it. We look at the unique opportunities in our market, in our region, and they’re different in a way.
Gaskin: Definitely stuck in a room of pragmatists not philosophers. [While] a mega-region is philosophically interesting … here we have a regional, collaborative group that, for all the fussing we sometimes do to each other, has multiple decades of success. It is highly functional, yet some days it feels like we’re barely keeping it together. To make that bigger is hard to really contemplate. It doesn’t make sense.
Hart: Improved transportation link-ins between the Hampton Roads area and Richmond is a good thing. Working together with the universities in that area
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and our universities is a great thing. The interchange of knowledge and information is a great thing. The populations of both of the regions will grow, and we may become a mega-region [sometime in the future]. We are pragmatists. We look at: Can we get [goods] from the port quicker? Can we get a specialized labor out of Hampton Roads up here faster? Can we get our goods down there quicker? We look at what things we can do to make us act more efficiently on a regional or a greater regional basis. The idea of saying it’s a mega-region doesn’t change anything for us.
Matherly: I think you have two distinct regions. Regions are defined by certain economic characteristics, and you can’t just brush over those … We could collaborate a lot more with the Hampton Roads region, and that is different.
It’s two different
regions deciding that it’s best if they work together … We’ve got something good that’s working here, but I think as a grow- ing region maybe it’s our turn to step out and build some collaborations with other regions [including Hampton Roads, Char- lottesville and Northern Virginia].
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