Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee

Blue Water Convention Center

Announcing the Blue Water Area Convention Center 12/15/11 COUNTY APPROVE’S RESOLUTION FOR CONVENTION CENTER On October 27, 2011 St. Clair County and the City of Port Huron announced the Blue Water Area Convention Center and the conversion of the Thomas Edison Inn into a Hilton Garden Inn. In 2009, the Economic Development Strategic Plan identified the need for a Convention [...]

On December 15th, 2011, posted in: Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, Home Page Items, News & Events, Tourism Committee by admin

Congratulations Port Huron for being one of seven communities to receive eCities award!

Port Huron along with Auburn Hills, Frankenmuth, Grand Rapids, Novi, Rochester Hills and Wixom have been identified as the top performing communities at fostering entrepreneurial growth and economic development in an annual study by researchers at the iLabs, University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Center for Innovation Research. Accepting the award pictured from left to reight: Port Huron [...]

On November 17th, 2011, posted in: Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, News & Events, Tourism Committee by admin

Blue Water Young Professionals puts attention on Downtown

Blue Water Young Professional focuses on Downtown living!

On October 5th, 2011, posted in: Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, News & Events by admin

Port Huron featured in Chicago Tribune as vacation Hot Spot!

Take a few moments to enjoy this great article on Port Huron (note that the article continues beyond the advertising after the first paragraph, so make sure to read the full feature). Bring on the tourists! We’re ready… and with all the community cross promotions taking place – they will be sure to enjoy other [...]

On July 1st, 2011, posted in: Communications Committee, Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, Tourism Committee by admin

Discover the Blue Warm Weather Campaign gets a $20,000 boost

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Marci Fogal, Blue Water Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, 810-987-8687 Randy Maiers, Community Foundation of St. Clair County, 810- 984-4761 The Discover the Blue Warm Weather Campaign gets a $20,000 boost. A series of Downtown Summits coordinated by the Blue Water Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, St. Clair Chamber of [...]

On May 26th, 2011, posted in: Communications Committee, Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, News & Events by admin

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Tourism – View new Community Videos

As part of the tourism initiatives to expand the Discover the Blue program to provide additional marketing & advertising, new community videos have been in production to promote communities throughout the Blue Water Region. Many of the videos have been produced and additional videos are being added as completed. We encourage you to check out these awesome [...]

On May 13th, 2011, posted in: Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, Tourism Committee by admin

EDSP Progress Synopsis

What’s been happening the past 6 months or so with Blue Meets Green? See below for a brief synposis. Also, a NEW feature being established on the website is a Progress Report “Graph” Chart showing detailed action items and progress per committee. Currently Practical Innovation, Workforce/Education, and Emerging Markets have been published. Progress Charts for Existing [...]

On May 13th, 2011, posted in: Communications Committee, Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee, Existing Industry Committee, Implementation Committee, News & Events, Practical Innovation Committee, Tourism Committee, Workforce Committee by admin

Minutes for August 12, 2010

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On August 12th, 2010, posted in: Downtowns & Quality of Place Committee by BBrown