Bruce Kendall

Bruce visited us last week Wednesday from Economic Development Board which is a non-profit corporation in Tacoma. I thought he was an interesting person with lots of ideas about the economy and he knew about all the different fields which makes up the economy. His ideas were about how to go about creating the economy. "Growing the Pie" to create jobs and wealth to provide economic opportunity for citizens by proactive retention and recruitment of primary jobs. I learned that 31% of Pierce County employment are in 15 different clusters. I enjoyed our discussion about aerospace engineering and Boeing. He talked about the different things the EDB have done to develop Tacoma and what other plans they are trying to create. Another interesting fact was the incubator; I didn't know that those people even exist to help start up a company. He was pretty cool to let our class get in for free at the meeting on March 26th.