Annual Meeting - Wednesday April 19th 2006
The “State of Downtown” 19th Annual Meeting took place on April 19th, 2006 (7:30 – 9:00 am), at the Grove Hotel hosted by the Downtown Boise Association and co-presented by Capital City Development Corporation and the City of Boise.
 Keynote Speaker - Neal Peirce is a lead writer, among American journalists, on metropolitan regions -- their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. Earlier in his career he was the political editor of Congressional Quarterly and then one of the founders of National Journal. He wrote a 10-book series on America's states and regions culminating in The Book of America: Inside 50 States Today (W.W. Norton, 1983). In 1975, Peirce began -- and continues today -- the United States' first national column focused on state and local government themes, syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group.
With Curtis Johnson, he has co-authored the Citistates Reports on compelling issues of metropolitan futures for leading newspapers in 21 regions across the nation, among them the Seattle Times, Dallas Morning News, Philadelphia Inquirer and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Peirce was lead author of the 1993 book, Citistates. Currently he is chairman of the Citistates Group, a network of journalists, speakers and consultants who believe that successful metropolitan regions are today's key to economic competitiveness and sustainable communities.
In addition to an exciting keynote speaker, we teamed up with the Idaho Business Review to provide a “State of Downtown” publication, which will be inserted into the Idaho Business Review. Copies of this publication will also be distributed to the attendees of the “State of Downtown Annual Meeting” and used as a business resource guide throughout the year.
Download a copy of the Annual Report - 
Download the State of Downtown Magazine - [warning: 9mb]
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