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Supervisor says local leadership, funding built the WISH Center
Summary
An elected official described shifting from regional business recruitment to focusing on local economic mobility, saying they 'started working feverishly' to create the WISH Center and that funding was identified to establish the local site.
The speaker who identified having been elected described a prior career in economic development and said they chose to focus on their own community after serving as a director recruiting businesses across Tysons, Reston and Herndon. "So I got elected. I came in the office, and I started working feverishly on creating the center," the supervisor said, and added that two years later the center was operational.
The speaker said funding had been identified and that the center’s facilities and programming were the "fruits of that labor," celebrating the graduation of residents expected to start local enterprises. An agency official also credited Dr. Beckett and the Department of Family Services within Fairfax County for helping ensure programs meet community needs.
