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News Flash AN OFFICIAL E LECTRONIC P UBLICATION OF THE P ENNSYLVANIA ECONOMIC D EVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION MONDAY, JUNE 9, 2003 • HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA • WWW.PEDA.ORG In This Issue

1 • Bill Hankowski, President and CEO of Liberty Property Trust to Deliver Keynote Address at This Week’s PEDA Real Estate Development Seminar in Grantville - You Can Still Attend 2 • House Bill 521 Presents Potential Impact on KOZ/KOEZ Program 3 • Former DCED Secretary McCullough Launches Consulting Firm

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Bill Hankowski, President and CEO of Liberty Property Trust to Deliver Keynote Address at This Week’s PEDA Real Estate Development Seminar in Grantville - You Can Still Attend Liberty Property Trust President and CEO Bill Hankowski will be delivering the keynote address at the PEDA Real Estate Development Seminar at 5:30 pm on June 10 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey on I-81 in Grantville, Pennsylvania. The program for the seminar is great and Mr. Hankowski is expected to deliver a powerful keynote speech on real estate development. PEDA would like to take this opportunity to invite members and their colleagues to attend Mr. Hankowski’s keynote address on Tuesday evening free of charge. If you can make it to the Harrisburg/Hershey area tomorrow evening, this is a presentation that you will not want to miss! Of course, if you would like to attend the entire two-day seminar on June 10 and June 11, arrangements can still be made at the same rates previously advertised, and an agenda for the full seminar is attached in the e-mail that carried this News Flash. To sign up to attend the keynote address or the entire seminar, contact program coordinator Denise Frantz at PSU Harrisburg at 717-948-6429.

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PEDA Events Professional Development Seminar Series •Five Certification Credits Each•

•Real Estate Development June 10-11, Grantville, PA •Business Retention July 29-30, Grantville, PA •Marketing & Business Attraction September 10-11, Grantville, PA •Financing Your Project November 4-5, Grantville, PA

PEDA Conferences • Ten Certification Credits Each•

•PEDA 2003 Fall Conference October 27-29, Harrisburg, PA For further information about these events, PEDA Certification, certification forms and publications and other events of interest, visit www.peda.org/conferences.html

House Bill 521 Presents Potential Impact on KOZ/KOEZ Program House Bill 521, which recently passed a vote of the House of Representatives, presents several impacts to the KOZ/KOEZ program should it pass the Senate and be enacted in its current form. The bill, which does present some favorable opportunities, amends the definition of “contiguous” to say that connection by means of a legal right-of-way such as a road, street or rail line is not in fact contiguous. This change could mean that sub zones now considered contiguous and legitimate under the KOZ/ KOEZ Program would be disallowed under HB 521 if enacted as currently written. HB 521 has not yet passed the Senate and PEDA is in discussion with Senate officials concerning possible amendments to this bill. A PDF copy of the bill is attached in the e-mail that carried this News Flash. If you are involved with KOZs and KOEZs, please review the bill and share your thoughts upon it with PEDA and your Senator.

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Former DCED Secretary McCullough Launches Consulting Firm Griffin Holdings Group, LLC and Stevens & Lee recently announced that Griffin and former DCED Secretary Samuel A. McCullough have jointly launched McCullough Consulting Group LLC, and that McCullough will serve as a consultant to Griffin’s investment banking unit and Stevens & Lee’s government affairs unit. McCullough Consulting Group, headquartered in Reading, will offer a full range of management consulting services with an emphasis on economic development, trans-national transactions and the business and strategic aspects of capital formation and corporate growth. PEDA wishes the former Secretary all the best in his new endeavor.

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