FLORIDA: That plan was called Vision 2015, and its primary goal was to create 4,000 new jobs by the end of this year. In July 2011 the Greater Pensacola Chamber hired Scott Luth and handed him a game plan for revving up job creation in a community whose unemployment was hovering near 10 percent.
City, county and private sector leaders responded enthusiastically to the strategy, and raised more than $8 million to make it happen. 8,500 new jobs created, according to the Haas Center for Business Research and Economic Development.
