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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212; Industrial Parks have and continue to be the economic driver for Northeastern Pennsylvania.</p><p>Penn&#8217;s Northeast and the Economic Development Organizations within our Northeast PREP network have executed a successful growth and attraction strategy to attract job producing companies from across the globe, by leveraging our location and access to a vast infrastructure network.</p><p>We have come a long way since the dominating era of coal, by diversifying our economy and utilizing our strengths to convert opportunities into wins.</p><p>This is evident through our recent success of landing international companies within our parks in Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe and Pike counties &#8212; a credit to the hard work of John Augustine at Penn&#8217;s Northeast and Northeast PREP partners.</p><p>More importantly, nobody has become complacent with what we have. Through tremendous partnerships with DCED and other Commonwealth agencies and department, we have continued efforts to secure funding to make our parks more attractive &#8212; investing in our roads and bridges, improving our utility infrastructure, and most recently, working together as a region to improve the public transportation system within each park.</p><p>Moving forward, the key to our success will be creating and executing a workforce strategy to meet the demands of current and future park tenants.</p><p>That, once again, will take a commitment and dedication from our partners to come together and build a sustainable model that aligns our workforce needs with our educational partners.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Joe Boylan</p><p>Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Commerce</p></bylineMeta></div>

Industrial parks economic driver for region