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Article: Textbook growth. (southwest Florida)(includes related articles on region's economic forecasts and rural development)(Cover Story)
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- Florida Trend
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- April 1, 1998
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Business leaders and public officials are taking a regional approach to economic development.
Last May, the counties of Charlotte, Collier, Glades, Hendry and Lee, acting in concert, signed a first-ever international trade agreement that made the Mexican state of Campeche, on the horn of the Yucatan Peninsula, the official sister region of Southwest Florida. Local companies may make some profitable connections, but the agreement's real significance lies more in the collaborative mindset that made the arrangement possible. Southwest Florida is a region in transition, enjoying textbook growth in population and wealth. As the rising tide lifts boats, local governments ...