Greater Richmond Chamber to visit Raleigh-Durham

The Greater Richmond Chamber's 2010 InterCity Visit will be to North Carolina's Raleigh-Durham region in April.

Raleigh-Durham was chosen because it is a capital region, frequently makes it on to "best of" lists, has a high concentration of higher-education facilities and has seen explosive growth.

The visits are a way to strengthen relationships among area leaders, learn from other regions and examine practices that can be brought back and put to use locally, said Thomas A. Silvestri, the InterCity Visit's co-chair and publisher of the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The update was made at the chamber's board meeting yesterday morning.

"Whatever emerges from this trip will not be lost," said Silvestri, who will be chamber board president next year and charged with implementing ideas that arise from the visit.

The trip will run from April 21 through April 23.

The cost is $1,425 per person. The deadline to register is Feb. 19.

This year, the visit was to Miami. Last year, it was to Charleston, S.C.; the year before, Oklahoma City.

-- Emily C. Dooley