Mission | Technology | Making Asheville's Vision a Reality |The People Behind Hub |17 Goals

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The Asheville Hub is a collaborative and sustainable economic, community, and cultural development strategy for Asheville and Buncombe County. The efforts of the Asheville Hub are coordinated around seven targeted clusters. Each cluster is led by one or more partners charged with implementation of one or more of the seventeen goals of Asheville Hub. The seven clusters are: Technology, Creativity,
Manufacturing, Land/Agriculture, Rejuvenation, Enterprise and Branding. Lead institutions for the Technology Cluster are AB Tech and UNC Asheville. The four goals in the Technology Cluster that UNC Asheville focusses on are 1) Broadband and Data Storage, 2) Weather, Climate and Private Meteorological Companies, 3) Digital Media Center and 4) Technology Infrastructure and Economic Development.

Technology is just one cluster of the Asheville Hub. The technological goals for the Asheville Hub are to complete the build-out of broadband and high performance computing and storage infrastructure; establish a Digital Media Center as a public, private, nonprofit partnership to spur growth and development of our existing multimedia industry.

As catalyst, the Asheville Hub is now moving to the
implementation phase. It is helping determine which
major projects should be undertaken first, based on
criteria such as the potential return on investment,
funding availability, intensity of competition from
other communities, and alignment with Asheville
Hub strategies. It also is helping to determine the
best business models and organizations for
financing and carrying out these projects.

Hundreds of people from Asheville and Buncombe
County’s diverse communities participate in Hub
activities. The 35 members of the Asheville Hub
Alliance, who have been appointed by the City of
Asheville or Buncombe County, provide leadership.
It is this group whose level of collaboration is
unprecedented in our community and who the
community depends upon for moving Asheville and
Buncombe County forward.
The Asheville Hub Alliance oversees the work of the
Asheville Hub Cabinet, a larger group representing
organizations such as the University of North
Carolina Asheville, AB Tech, the North Carolina
Cooperative Extension, Mission Health and
Hospitals, the Asheville Area Arts Council,
HandMade in America, the Asheville Area Chamber
of Commerce, the City of Asheville, Buncombe
County and scores of businesses. These talented
and energetic individuals are working together on
behalf of the entire community.

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