PEDC new leader focus on jobs creation
By Lisa Buie, Times Staff Writer In Print: Sunday, December 27, 2009 Pasco's new economic development CEO hired to deliver jobs Don't ask John Hagen about the most successful projects he's worked on during his 30-year career unless you have time. "It's complicated," he'll say, and then like your great uncle telling family stories, recall in amazing detail who all the players were, whose political back had to be scratched, and the history of the property that ended up being the site of the new business incubator or tractor warehouse or academic building. Yet it's the 59-year-old's attention to the small things and political and business nuances that will be useful to him as the new chief of the Pasco agency charged with luring new business to the county and helping existing companies expand. Full article in St Pete Times