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Sustainable Community Business Park in Wisconsin
An Indigo Development team worked with Foth Infrastructure and Environment to create a regional economic development strategy for the Northwoods and to recommend development opportunities for a site near Rhinelander, Oneida County. Our client was the Oneida County Economic Development Corporation (OCEDC). The OCEDC Board has approved the set of reports produced and is seeking support for moving to a next phase of development.

The full report by Indigo Development: Lowe, Victors, Weber. 2009. Pathways toward a Sustainable Northwoods: Resource Flow Management, Forest and Landscape Renewal, A Sustainable Community Business Park. Prepared for Oneida County Economic Development Corporation, in collaboration with Foth Infrastructure and Environment LLC. is available as an MS-Word file http://www.indigodev.com/OCEDC_Indigo_Full_Rept.doc. 1.5 mgb

This report defines two dynamic pathways toward a sustainable and more competitive region, both creating a strong context for development of a Sustainable Community Business Park (SCBP) at Rhinelander:
  • Evolve the region toward a sustainable, high performance economy across all sectors, private and public.  See the economy as a system of resource flows and act collaboratively as managers of these resource flows.
  • Renew the primary resource in the Northwoods—the forests and landscape—as a significant contributor to a regional sustainable economy.  Restore the quality of the natural environment as the foundation for increased value-added wood production, forest bioenergy generation (including bio-refineries), and enhanced eco-tourism and historical tourism.
The two pathways toward a Sustainable Northwoods are a strong regional foundation for development of the Sustainable Community Business Park (SCBP) at Rhinelander.  Strong support from public and private sectors throughout the region will be an important success factor for the SCBP.  In exchange, the SCBP development would provide a specific long-term project to test policies, strategies, and technologies that may be applied elsewhere in the region.  Leaders throughout the area will learn from Oneida County Development Corporation’s experience of planning and building the SCBP and strengthen their capacity for moving along the two pathways to sustainability.



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