Mayor Rick Danner will be a speaker and present a videotaped interview on Greer at this weekend’s New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Kansas City, Mo.
It will be Danner’s second significant economic trip taken on Greer’s behalf in the past six months. He was invited as part of a delegation with Upstate Alliance to visit Tianjin, China and Japan last September. Part of the visit included Greer’s Century 3 China offices. Century 3 bought the formerly vacant Safe Auto Insurance building on Dec. 28.
Danner’s session, at the closing plenary, is on “Economically Sustainable Communities – Learning from the Past and Looking Toward the Future”. He will be on a panel with mayors Mark Stodola of Little Rock, Ark., and Ed Gonzalez, of Houston, Tex. The moderator is John Frece, Director, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA. They will speak on how their communities are building on local assets, reinvigorating the core, and increasing the resiliency and quality of neighborhoods.
Danner’s videotape presentation will be on Greer's Master Plan and Downtown Revitalization (the Partnership for Tomorrow). He was one of 22 local officials from around the country to join the nonpartisan advisory board of Smart Growth America’s new Local Leaders Council.