Establish a new medical school. Build more citizen engagement in education. Nurture entrepreneurship. Incorporate light rail.
These are just a few of the concepts that a delegation of 145 business and community leaders from south Louisiana plans to bring home from its Super Region Canvas trip to Arizona’s Sun Corridor that began Sunday and concludes today.
Metro Councilman John Delgado says past Canvas trips have resulted in new initiatives for the Capital Region, and this year’s trip will be no different. Organizers note the idea for a Baton Rouge Health District and subsequent discussions about building a clinical trials program here began with a Canvas trip, as did the pressure put on LSU to expand technology transfer and the Automotive Technology Center at Ardendale.
“If we live in a bubble and never expose ourselves to other communities and regions, we’re just doing the same things over and over again,” Delgado says. “You have to get out there. To me, we should be doing these more often than every 18 months. I think we should do it as often as possible.”
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