Select Greater Philadelphia Investor Community
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Transforming the Region's Healthcare
The new Delaware Health Sciences Alliance (DHSA) brings together four of the region's top research, healthcare education and healthcare institutions: Christiana Care Health System, the University of Delaware , Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and Thomas Jefferson University.
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The Philadelphia Gas Works (PGW) is the sole distributor of natural gas services within the City of Philadelphia and is the largest municipally owned natural gas utility in the country. Founded in 1836, PGW serves over 500,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers with a system of 6000 miles of mains and services. PGW has assets of $1.7 billion and annual revenues of $800 million.
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Events and forums for the entrepreneurial community.
CoreNet Global Economic Forecast Breakfast
March 25, 2010
Registration and networking:
7:30 to 8 a.m.
Breakfast and welcome remarks
from PECO President Denis O'Brien:
8:00 to 8:30 a.m.
Program:
8:30 to 9:45 a.m.
PECO, 2301 Market Street, Philadelphia 215-841-4000
12th Annual Angel Venture Fair
April 5, 2010
6:00pm
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April 6, 2010
7:30pm
The Angel Venture Fair - one of the few events organized by and exclusively for private investors - is brought to you by the Private Investors Forum (PIF), a non-profit consortium of accredited private investors and angel investor groups in the Mid-Atlantic region.
Union League
140 South Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19102
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Select Greater Philadelphia (Select) is an economic development marketing organization dedicated to attracting companies to the Greater Philadelphia region. Select assists companies interested in the vicinity by providing detailed information about the 11-county area and a one-stop connection to numerous resources that help companies make informed decisions about locating to the region.
Through global marketing efforts, Select works to promote the region's key assets to help build the area's economy. The Greater Philadelphia region encompasses northern Delaware, southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania.
Select is a private, non-profit organization and an affiliate of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce.
For more information, click here or call 215-790-3777.
Select Greater Philadelphia's Momentum Newsletter is a bi-monthly electronic news publication that reports on key economic progress in the 11-County Greater Philadelphia Region of northern Delaware, southern New Jersey and southeastern Pennsylvania. The newsletter reaches a diverse audience of regional business community leaders as well as prospective business contacts considering locating or relocating to the community.
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Select Greater Philadelphia Helps Attract 50 Companies to the TriState Region Since Inception
Organization Assists in the Creation of More Than 3,600 jobs adding $682 Million to the Region's Gross Regional Product
Coriell Institute Receives $27M for Human Genetics Biobank
Coriell Institute for Medical Research Biobank facility in Camden, New Jersey
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Following a nationwide competition, the Coriell Institute for Medical Research received a five-year, $27 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) through the National Institutes of Health.
This contract will allow Coriell to introduce a powerful type of stem cell called induced pluripotent stem cells, or iPS cells, into the Repository.
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Manufacturing Facility Expands in Delaware
Magco Incorporated, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kissner Group, recently expanded its operations in Delaware. Originally established in 1998, Magco Incorporated is a producer of packaged rock salt, solar water softener salt products, salt for animal nutrition and specialty de-icer products.
The company began packing operations in Pottstown, PA and relocated to Claymont, DE in 2000. |
 To accommodate increasing market demands and projected growth, the operation moved to a new, state-of-the-art facility in Wilmington, DE. This new facility has more than doubled the capacity of the former plant location and has improved product quality while substantially reducing the company's environmental footprint.
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New Bio Start-Up in South Jersey Sees Promising Future
Sure-BioChem Laboratories, a full-service, contract testing laboratory incepted in 2009, recently established its headquarters at the Rutgers-Camden Waterfront Technology Campus in Camden, NJ. The company's laboratory facility is located at the Burlington County College Life Science Incubator in Mt. Laurel, NJ. Burlington County College's High Tech and Life Science Incubator offers promising start-up companies access to extensive resources, such as business planning and marketing assistance, financial and legal resources, and licensing and patent information. The incubator houses a total of 32,000 square feet and hosts more than 38 companies.
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Tiffany Heigler, CEO of Sure-BioChem Examines Culture Plates.
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Drexel University College of Medicine Opens Convenient Care Center
Drexel Convenient Care Center staff celebrate the grand opening of the facility located in the Shops at Liberty Place. |
Drexel University College of Medicine and the College of Nursing & Health Professions held a grand opening celebration last month for a new, first-of-its-kind medical facility in Philadelphia. The facility will provide fast, convenient, quality medical care to busy working professionals, residents and visitors in Center City.
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PRPA Hosts Canadian American Chamber of Commerce Mid-Atlantic's Trade with Canada Event
Event draws shippers and service providers to hear about trade with key Port market
The Chilean American Chamber of Commerce has been active in the mid-Atlantic region for many years; so has the German American Chamber. But Canada, the most important trading partner of the USA and the greater mid-Atlantic region, has never had an active chamber of commerce. Until now.
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Rethink. Recover. Rebuild: Reinventing Older Communities
On May 12-13, 2010, the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia will host its fourth biennial conference on reinventing older communities. Since the last conference, people have witnessed a steep downturn in housing values, a high level of both subprime and prime mortgage foreclosures, and the disruption of credit markets.
The deep recession has posed new challenges for reinventing communities. The extent to which the economic stimulus funds being provided by the federal government will address these challenges is one of the topics this conference will address.
Participants will also have a chance to take one of three interesting tours including the Navy Yard, a reinvented community consisting of a 1,200-acre waterfront development, with over 80 companies and 7,500 employees.
Event-goers can also tour a successful charter school and meet with the school’s CEO to learn how he has created a model of urban education that works. Or visit Temple University to see the transformation it has spawned around its North Philadelphia campus. |
Last, but not least, President Obama has been invited to the event to talk about the nation’s recovery and his administration’s plans for reinvesting in older communities.
Join the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia on May 12–14, 2010, and meet other policymakers, community developers, bankers, researchers, funders, planners, and government representatives from around the country who are as interested as you are in the challenges and opportunities for older cities and towns.
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Wistar Scientists Identify a Gene that may Regulate Regeneration in Mammals
Project's lead scientist Ellen Heber-Katz, Ph.D., a professor in Wistar's Molecular and Cellular Oncogenesis program
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A quest that began over a decade ago with a chance observation has reached a milestone: the identification of a gene that may regulate regeneration in mammals. The absence of this single gene, called p21, confers a healing potential in mice long thought to have been lost through evolution and reserved for creatures like flatworms, sponges, and some species of salamander. In a report published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from The Wistar Institute demonstrate that mice that lack the p21 gene gain the ability to regenerate lost or damaged tissue.
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Leading Indicator Suggests a Gradual Economic Recovery in Greater Philadelphia
The Greater Philadelphia economy is likely to begin a gradual recovery from the current US recession during the first or second quarters of this year according to Select Greater Philadelphia's and IHS Global Insight's Leading Indicator for the Greater Philadelphia region.
The Leading Indicator, which is designed to predict the level of economic activity six to nine months from the present, has risen in seven of the last nine months, suggesting that a return to positive, albeit moderate economic growth is likely to begin in the spring or early summer of 2010.
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