The Sweet Spot

By Nicholas Langhorne (Contact) | Tidewater News
Published Thursday, April 22, 2010
ISLE OF WIGHT—Local economic development officials are hoping that state backing will help entice companies to set up shop in the region.
“We are branding Franklin, Southampton and Isle of Wight County as Virginia’s Distribution Central or “the Sweet Spot,”” Lisa Perry, Isle of Wight County’s director of economic development, told the county’s Board of Supervisors last week.
Perry said her office, along with Franklin-Southampton Economic Development, Inc., has been working with state and regional officials to develop a strategy to market the region and its strengths, including the proximity to the ports and the skilled workforce.
“I think this is great,” said Phillip Bradshaw, chairman of the Isle of Wight County Board of Supervisors.

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