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

1 Bill Hankowski, President and CEO of Liberty Property Trust PEDA Events
to Deliver Keynote Address at This Week’s PEDA Real Estate
Development Seminar in Grantville - You Can Still Attend
Professional Development
Liberty Property Trust President and CEO Bill Hankowski will be Seminar Series
•Five Certification Credits Each•
delivering the keynote address at the PEDA Real Estate Development
Seminar at 5:30 pm on June 10 at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey •Real Estate Development
on I-81 in Grantville, Pennsylvania. June 10-11, Grantville, PA
•Business Retention
The program for the seminar is great and Mr. Hankowski is expected July 29-30, Grantville, PA
to deliver a powerful keynote speech on real estate development. •Marketing & Business Attraction
PEDA would like to take this opportunity to invite members and their September 10-11, Grantville, PA
colleagues to attend Mr. Hankowski’s keynote address on Tuesday •Financing Your Project
November 4-5, Grantville, PA
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 PEDA Conferences
seminar on June 10 and June 11, arrangements can still be made at • Ten Certification Credits Each•

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.
•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

2 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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3 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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