Bill Popp, head of the Anchorage Economic Development Corp., boiled down his 2023 economic forecast to: “A good year ahead, but not necessarily a great year like 2022 was.”
Construction workers walk down Fifth Avenue between D and E streets in downtown Anchorage in 2021. Fat Ptarmigan closed earlier this winter.
The action plan dovetails with the takeaways from AEDC’s economic forecast for 2023. CEO Bill Popp presented it at his organization’s annual economic forecast luncheon on Wednesday. That’s where Popp said the Choose Anchorage campaign comes in. Jeff Marcell is one of the consultants who worked on the plan. He called the situation a “talent crisis.” If nothing changes, he said Anchorage “is not going to be the kind of community that you want to have.”Alex Cooke, a consultant with TIP Strategies, discusses the Choose Anchorage action plan for revitalizing Anchorage’s economy at the Anchorage Economic Development Corp.
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