We have a vision for our future. By 2025, Anchorage is the #1 city in America to Live. Work. & Play.
This is the vision for Anchorage in 2025:
LIVE by 2025 Anchorage will provide a robust spectrum of employment opportunities with affordable housing, health care education and access to world class recreational and cultural facilities.
WORK by 2025 Anchorage will have a consistent business environment of resource development and information technology, offering low unemployment rates, with household incomes and standard living continuing to be some of the highest in the country. Our new intellectual property industry is the envy of many regions dependent on dwindling natural resources.
PLAY by 2025 Anchorage has a rugged and healthy population because our homes are within a short distance of parks and trails that provide a natural outdoor experience. We participate in the very cultural and sporting events in which we are also spectators.
Live. Work. Play. is a grassroots effort focused on community improvement and engagement for the people who live here, it is NOT a marketing campaign or a slogan.
Live. Work. Play. is NOT new. Most cities in America have some sort of Live. Work. Play. initiative or campaign. The difference is we are actually measuring our city and how we rank against the largest cities in each state including the District of Columbia (51 cities).
Live. Work. Play. is NOT in competition, taking the place of or trying to re-create Big. Wild. Life. We love Big. Wild. Life., it is our brand!
UPDATE: The Live. Work. Play. Film Competition screening and judging has been postponed. The LWP film screening will be rescheduled for a time in late September to coincide with the Live. Work. Play. Annual Event featuring a celebrity guest speaker. Film submissions have been extended to September 14th. If you have any questions please call 258-3700. Stay tuned for more information.
March 15th, 2012 -
Calling all filmmakers! After the overwhelming success of the winning film from January's Live. Work. Play. Film Competition (Stuff Anchoragites Never Saywhich has over 100,000 views on youtube!), AEDC has decided to have a second Live. Work. Play. Film Competition with a public screening on July 20th at 7pm, location TBA. The winning film will be shown to 1500+ business professionals at the AEDC Economic Outlook Luncheon on July 25th. Criteria for the films include:
Tell a story, create a film! For updates, follow the Live. Work. Play. facebook page!
February 24th, 2012 - AEDC held their first Live. Work. Play. sponsored event, "For the Love of Anchorage" workshop and luncheon on February 23rd at the Hotel Captain Cook. The successful event featured Peter Kageyama, author of the internationally acclaimed book "For the Love of Cities", focusing on the grassroots efforts of falling in love with your city and how to make change in your city from a grassroots level. Kageyama held a workshop with the Anchorage community, challenging them to think of creative ways to engage the community and improve the city. Below is a timelapsed video of the mural that shows a visual representaion of the workshop designed by artist Michelle Royal and local Alaskan artist Aurora Sydney-Adel. Listen to Peter Kageyama on KSKA's Addressing Alaskans!
February 1st, 2012 -
AEDC is hosting their first Live. Work. Play. sponsored event featuring Peter Kageyama, author of the internationally acclaimed book "For the Love of Cities". Kageyama will be in Anchorage February 23rd to give a lunch presentation and half day workshop about the grassroots efforts of falling in love with your city. Help us identify community innovators by contacting AEDC at 258-3700 or for more information. Lunch and workshop will be held at the Hotel Captain Cook on Feb. 23rd from 11:30am - 4:00pm.
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January 25th, 2012 - AEDC announced the winner of the Live. Work. Play. Film Competition at the screening of the films on January 20th at the Anchorage Museum. Brian Dollerhide took home the Grand Prize & the People’s Choice Award with his film “Stuff Anchoragites Never Say”. Dollerhide won tickets to ride the Alaska Railroad from Anchorage to Seward and to Sealife Center, along with tickets to the Anchorage Opera performance of Macbeth, and also scored tickets to AEDC’s SOLD OUT Economic Forecast Featuring Steve Forbes with a $50 gift certificate to ORSO/Brewhouse. Brian's film has gone viral! View it here.
See the other films on the Live. Work. Play. Youtube channel at http://www.youtube.com/AnchorageLWP
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