Guest Speaker Bruce Kendall

Bruce Kendall dropped by the University of Washington Tacoma's entrepreneurship class. Bruce is the president and CEO of the Economic Development Board for the Tacoma Pierce County area. The board helps bring in companies into the area, by promoting work space, and the area in general. The board also gathers statistics about local industries and how they are growing or shrinking. The statistics are a little old, I would like to see the the updated graphs to see how the current economy has affected local industries. I found it interesting that 31% of Pierce County's employment are in 15 clusters. At the end of the presentation Bruce showed us buildings in the area that the board has helped moved businesses into, and buildings they hope to have businesses moved into. Bruce was also nice enough to invite us all to the economic horizons forecast luncheon wich is a very generous thing to do.