April 4: Tampa Bay hosts Richmond business group eager to find best practices for its own economy (Tampa Bay Times)
April 4, 2014
They came. They saw. They compared.
More than 150 business leaders from Richmond, Va., spent the past week on a tour of the Tampa Bay business, cultural and entrepreneurial scene. The mission? To find any and all best practices employed here that the Richmond metro area can adopt, in the process making the economy of Virginia's capital city more competitive and appealing for future growth.
It's called a benchmarking visit. That's when one metro area's business elite tours another city in search of...