The fact that Larry Bird flew into New York to drive an IndyCar up 5th Ave. you can only imagine the amount of tension that Garner in New York City and it showed the seriousness of purpose. We announced this All Star game in 2017. The game was supposed to take place here in 2021, was cancelled because of the pandemic. Here we are in 2024, so a long time coming. When you get an event, then it really sinks in. You have to prove what you said. It was super exciting and overwhelming. I mean, you immediately start thinking of all the things you need to do. The difference between the 85 All Star Game and the All Star Game and 2024 is the amount of detail. You start out with a million ideas and everybody's super excited and you sort of figure out the people that are going to roll up their sleeves and do the work. What are the ones that we can execute? We wanted to make sure that we paid attention to all the folks that that love the NBA and that love the NBA players. And so as we filled out the host committee board, we were super intentional in terms of diversity of age and background and organization and. Ethnicity and all of those things, we didn't look at how we're going to do it better. We were gonna do look, look at it on how much better we were going to do it. We've been waiting for about 40 years for the NBA All Star game to come back to Indianapolis. We cannot wait. So many people in this room have done so much to get ready. When you were staying downtown or driving in from somewhere else, the minute you got off the highway, you knew All Star was happening. India's homecourt just kind of naturally came to us and we realized that if you look at might miss circle, it actually looks like center court. And if you were to draw the lines like Indies, downtown looks like a court. And so realizing that we kept saying, well, it's always about the All Stars. But when you were here in Indy, the fan was going to be the All Star for that weekend in downtown, was going to be their court. We are right here on the corner of capital in Georgia streets. This is where we're putting up some of the All-Star signage for the weekend. Throughout the course of the weekend, we're going to have close to 2500 volunteers all around downtown. You're going to see a bunch of different installations. My favorite is a basketball court in the middle civic club. Nobody has ever done this. We have to make sure we do it absolutely better than anybody else. Our hotels have to be good, our merchandise has to be great, our venues have to be the cleanest any our people have to be the most friendly. Innovation was one of the three things we wanted to try to accomplish in this weekend, and there's a leader in our community who had this idea about this LED court that existed in Europe. The league was certainly intrigued and then when they came back to us after we discussed moving the event to Luke Oil Stadium and they proposed the LED court, we loved it. And have 35,000 people get to see that live was incredible. Every All Star is custom curated for the city and the moment, and through Herb Simon's leadership and Rick Fuson and Mel Raines, the focus was on how do you make this event more fan first, refuse him. The Simon family set out to bring some aspect of All Star to as many people as they can. And we're here to to announce that. One of the most exciting things that we'll announce during this whole situation is that we're going to take Saturday night to Lucas Oil Stadium. Why All Star Saturday night is now at Lucas Oil Stadium was to allow more fans to happen moving practice to Cambridge allowing more fans. We have over 175,000 fan ticketed opportunity and this is amazing never done before in the NBA. The ticket prices are the ones that were released will be $24.49 dollars and 79 dollars. I think the affordability factor is historic and yet we do it in Indianapolis because we want. To welcome all we want to include all we want as broadly diverse and audience as we can get. Our NBA crossover is 30% larger than any other crossover in previous history. This was really the first year that it was a complete sellout. And part of that was we really worked with the league to get the right ticket price so that you as a family could actually go and experience all the activations and sponsorships and everything that comes along with crossover. Our host committee added a lot of scope, arts and culture being the biggest, and that really did make All Star Weekend more special. The arts and culture experiences are a chance to really show the world who we are and what we stand for. We love our Hoosier values, but we also have a really great creative culture here and a creative economy here. And using the event like All Star was able to allow us to highlight. There will be 87 unique experiences created by over 100 creatives. There will be about 20-4 large 6 foot public art sculptures that will be happening as part of the Hoosier Historia program. I think this project came together in a really special way. The Indie Arts Council actually surveyed the community to identify different Indiana basketball centric stories and then paired artists in the community that resonated with those specific stories. As Co chairs of Art and Culture Committee, one of our charges was to make. The, you know, core of what would be homecourt more vibrant. And Alan said, well, what if we had our own version of Music Row like in Nashville? And so that's where the cultural corridor came from. There was over 600 artists involved in the totality of, you know, this art and culture, you know, program that happened alongside the corridor that included, you know, butter and and the tip off. How about this place? So listen, we're here for Tip Off NBA All Star 2024. We started with the tip off that truly was tipping off the weekend for All Star and making sure that fans had an opportunity to not only fill our culture as far as our activations from Christmas addicts and having a lot of local dancers participate, but then also to be able to have an artist like T Pain perform. This brings so much exposure, not just Indianapolis, not just to the Pacers, but then the arts community too, so people from around the world can come and see what we have to offer as far as sports and art. Of the five main reasons we wanted to have the All Star game, two of them were related to economic impact and community impact. They took all our the community events we've done historically, they just amplified them that much more. One thing that we were able to take out of Salt Lake and that All Star was the pitch competition. And then what's great about our leadership and understanding the legacy of all this, they took it a step further so that it is literally the highest funded pitch competition thus far. It involved the most different, diverse groups. We were able to do 24 hours of service, providing a million meals to Who's Your Families. That was so much bigger than what a normal NBA Cares project was, whether it be the money that went to the Boys and Girls Club or to Special Olympics or the Crista Moore House or whatever else. The case may be that that leaves the legacy. The fact that we did 24 legacies across the state of Indiana, that's a real legacy. That's the best part of hosting NBA All Star Weekend. As this community impact on these projects will live on for twenty, 30-40 years and these big events I think give us the opportunity to bring money, effort, education and love to people in our community. And I think it's something very unique about the state of Indiana because from day one, it's a statewide initiative. There were so many unsung heroes that made this event possible and some of them worked on this for years and some of them came in and helped in the last week. What makes us successful in our city? People who care. People who will do two jobs at once. People who will not quit. People who will do everything possible to make their city and their state shine. And that's what we had.
A new study found that arts sector growth positively impacts overall economic growth and the sector has a unique, remarkable ability to provide opportunities after economic downturns (including COVID-19). Additionally, the study pointed out that the arts and creative industries comprise 4.4% of the United States’ GDP, more than construction, agriculture, transportation, and mining.
PATTERN is creating sustainable and intentional investments in the creative economy, so that the whole of Indiana can thrive.
More details on the research: https://lnkd.in/gXyU3z9k
Heritage and Tourism are HUGE contributors to the British Economy. Heritage is often branded as a redundant priority, but it is integral not just to Tourism in the UK but its national identity. During economic decline, conserving the country's heritage will yield rich economic and diplomatic returns.
#heritageconservation#creativeeconomy#ukeconomy
Cultural heritage plays an important role in England and has a direct positive influence on economic development. 🙌
New research shows that where heritage is abundant, it serves as inspiration for new creative works and innovation that can increase entrepreneurship and foster local economic growth.
#HeritageCountsNeil Mendoza
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#reshare A great read from Historic England on Cultural Heritage, Creativity and the Creative Economy. This article shows how the presence of heritage represents a specific type of economic resource that can stimulate imagination and innovative capacity to produce positive economic outcomes. The UK has a huge opportunity to capitalise on its wonderful and diverse cultural heritage and thousands of historic assets.
Keynotes include newly published research findings:
* Cultural heritage exerts a direct positive influence on economic development: On average, a marginal increase in the cultural heritage is associated with a real GDP growth of 0.14 percent.
* Areas of higher cultural heritage also produce a larger number of trademarks, a measure of economic creativity: Areas with a higher density of listed buildings produce on average 0.01 more trademarks per thousand people.
* Regions that are abundantly endowed with both economic and scientific creative talents, or with both economic and artistic creative talents perform better than the others in terms of GDP growth.
#conservation#heritagematters#regeneration#heritage
Cultural heritage plays an important role in England and has a direct positive influence on economic development. 🙌
New research shows that where heritage is abundant, it serves as inspiration for new creative works and innovation that can increase entrepreneurship and foster local economic growth.
#HeritageCountsNeil Mendoza
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Our June Economic Brief is now out and takes a deeper dive into the employment-unemployment paradox that occurs when both rates rise simultaneously.
Over the past year, Regina's economy has been strong, creating many new jobs in logistics, manufacturing, and finance. While employment in Regina rose from 145,000 in May 2023 to 152,000 a year later, the unemployment rate also increased from 4.6% to 7%. While a simultaneous rise in both numbers seems counterintuitive, it is the result of a combination of a growing labor force, high interest rates, booming local businesses, and inflationary pressures.
For other key numbers and a full look into this month's economic brief, click the link below: https://lnkd.in/gdhCcgji
The Economist Impact & Tokio Marine Group "Resilient Cities Index 2023"
By 2050, cities will be home to more than two-thirds of the world’s population, placing them at the crux of humanity’s ability to adapt to the risks and uncertainties of the 21st century. Natural disasters from extreme weather to pandemics, and human catastrophes such as industrial accidents, terrorism and cyber-attacks, take their gravest toll on citizens in densely populated urban centres. Cities can also be flashpoints for instability and conflict due to poverty and inequality.
For the purpose of this research, Economist Impact defines urban resilience as a city’s ability to avoid, withstand and recover from shocks, such as natural disasters; and from long-term stresses such as poverty, decrepit infrastructure or migration. A resilient city should be able to self-organise following a shock event, adapt to unfolding risks and plan ahead rather than react.
1 - #NewYork
2 - #LosAngeles
3 - #London
4 - #Singapore
5 - #Paris
6 - #Melbourne
7 - #Amsterdam
8 - #Tokyo
9 - #Barcelona
10 - #Munich
Get your copy of the report here: https://lnkd.in/gFS6dqfp
⚡️The U.S. team is in Armenia: the National Science Foundation (NSF)* Program Directors Alex and Vyacheslav, the U.S. Embassy economic officer Erik and me had an exploratory discussion about the current state and future of Science and Technology in Armenia 🇦🇲.
Symbolically, the conversation has originated at the “starting point“, the iconic Ground Zero Specialty Café, the first venture cafe in the region.
💡*The U.S. NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 “to promote the progress of science🧬; to advance the national health, prosperity, and welfare; to secure the national defense; and for other purposes.”
#science#education#technology#national#federal#governmentStrategic Value Ventures#NSF#entrepreneurship
Great information from Dr. Kleinhenz, a distinguished economist and expert in the Inland Empire economy at the Mid-Year Economic Update & State of the Market hosted by CREW INLAND EMPIRE. Heli CastanedaMichael LopezElyse I. Great economic developments to come in the I.E.
In light of the recent riots, I invite you to take a look at my Churchill Fellowship report, where I share insights from countries like Canada and Sweden on how they approach and support integration.
"The attribution of blame amounts to an abandonment of responsibility, especially when migrants have little choice in what happens both in social discourse and in how operations are put in place to attend to their needs.
Hostility is directed at the migrants themselves rather than at the powers that create and implement policies, if protest is indeed required to challenge how migration is being handled. However, if migrants are made to feel unwelcome, this serves as an extra challenge to resettling and an almost insurmountable burden when it comes to the idea of integration.
Paradoxically, this atmosphere is not only undermining positive feelings about being in the UK, it is also undermining the very assumption of responsibility needed to strive for independence. "
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You can also watch the summary of my research interviews here: https://lnkd.in/eEyhfz3J
The term Third World was originally used to describe countries that lacked economic and political relationships with industrialized nations worldwide. Many of these countries were previously colonies of European nations. However, the term Third World is now considered offensive, and countries once referred to as Third World are now categorized as developing or frontier countries.
Generally, countries worldwide can be broadly classified into three categories: developed, emerging, and frontier. Developed countries are the most industrialized, with strong economic indicators. Emerging countries have made significant progress in various areas of economic growth, but their metrics are only sometimes stable. Frontier markets often resemble the old Third-World classification and typically display the lowest economic indicators.
On the other hand, the United States of America leads the First World with its prosperity, opportunities, security, democracy, and much more.
#prosperity#opportunities#security#democracy#AmericanDreamhttps://lnkd.in/gFubmtnm
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3moThis is AMAZING! Congratulations to Pacers Sports & Entertainment, the LOC, and all organizations involved!! 👏