Advancing Baltimore-Washington-Richmond Region
December 29, 2016
The Daily Record
by Joe Nathanson
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“As 2016 drew to a close, word came that a new regional marketing initiative was being launched. Named the Greater Washington Partnership, the “greater” in this case signified a region stretching from Baltimore to Washington and on to Richmond.
My first reaction was, in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, “It’s déjà vu all over again.” I say this because, going back several decades, I was involved in the early phase of a similar mega-regional marketing program. It started about 1974 when then- (Baltimore) Regional Planning Council chairman Milton H. “Mickey” Miller asked David W. Barton, Jr. to head a recently created Regional Economic Task Force, for which I was the lead staff person.
Barton, who had previously served as the chair of Baltimore City’s Planning Commission, headed his own institutional marketing and public relations consulting firm. He took on Miller’s assignment with a full burst of energy…”