Mayor and Town Clerk hobnob with Boston business contacts

THE Mayor of Londonderry was joined by the Town Clerk in Boston to meet key business contacts with a view to identifying economic and cultural links between the two cities.

Mayor Kevin Campbell says his recent trip to Boston to attend the Golden Bridges Conference was a very positive one providing a unique opportunity for delegates to showcase the city ahead of 2013 and the City of Culture.

He commented: “The city and region has a very strong existing relationship with Boston and the purpose of this visit was to consolidate those existing partnerships and look at new opportunities for developing exciting and innovative research and development projects.

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“It’s never been a better time to promote the North West region and to tell the city’s new story to a world-wide audience, we were proactively encouraging people in the US to Make a Date with Derry and avail of the opportunity to visit the city and region during 2013 and our City of Culture year.”

Town Clerk and Chief Executive Sharon O’Connor said: “It provided delegates from the North West region with a huge opportunity to promote Derry and Donegal and to welcome its worldwide Diaspora as well as look at new opportunities for economic development and cultural enhancement.”

Among the people who met with the Derry delegation was Massachusetts Senate President Therese Murray, Tom Gradel from the Massachusetts Office of International Trade and Investment and Peter Abair from Economic Development and Global Affairs at Massachusetts Biotechnology Council.