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b'Linda Parkowski, Executive Director of the Kent Economic Partnership, speaks with Troy Mix, Associate Director of the University of Delaware\'s Institute for Public Administration (IPA), about encouraging economic development in Central Delaware. \\n\\nThe Kent Economic Partnership is a public-private organization that aims to spur economic development in Central Delaware. Under Linda\\u2019s leadership, the Partnership has identified distribution and logistics activity as an economic development opportunity. Topics covered in this November 4, 2020 interview include lessons learned from marketing Kent County in the freight and logistics space, recent successes in attracting small- to medium-sized manufacturers to Central Delaware, and the role of transportation infrastructure and planning for Kent County\\u2019s economic development efforts. \\n\\nThis episode is a special #FreightFriday edition of First State Insights made possible by the Delmarva Freight Working Group\\u2014an ongoing transportation planning and economic development partnership coordinated by IPA, the Delaware Department of Transportation, and Delaware\'s three Metropolitan Planning Organizations: the Dover/Kent County MPO, the Salisbury/Wicomico MPO, and WILMAPCO.\\n\\nVisit choosecentraldelaware.com for more information on the Kent Economic Partnership. To learn more about the Delmarva Freight Working Group, visit wilmapco.org/Delmarva. Visit ipa.udel.edu for information on IPA. \\n\\nOpening and closing music: "I Dunno" by Grapes, used under Creative Commons 3.0 License.'