The Metro Center, a Greater Manchester Chamber initiative, in partnership with the New Hampshire Department of Resources and Economic Development and the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission, presents the 6th Annual Infrastructure Summit. Join us for in-depth discussions on important regional infrastructure issues including: Interstate 93 Salem to Manchester I-293 Improvements Airport Access Road Affordable Housing update Community Technical Assistance Program NH DOT Long Range Business Transportation Plan... and more. Keynote Speaker Neal Peirce, Chairman of The Citistates Group, joins us to address NH's current status, the New England Futures Project, the challenges and opportunities facing our region and the action steps we need to take to achieve our goals. About our Keynote Speaker Neal Peirce is a foremost writer, among American journalists, on metropolitan regions — their political and economic dynamics, their emerging national and global roles. With Curtis Johnson, he has co-authored the Peirce Reports (now called Citistates Reports) on compelling issues of metropolitan futures for leading media in more than 20 regions across the nation. Reports of recent years include Boston Unbound, released in May 2004, a report on the San Diego-Tijuana citistate area for San Diego Magazine, South Florida for the Miami Herald, El Nuevo Herald and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Kansas City for the Kansas City Star, and South Texas for the San Antonio Express-News. In 2004-2006, Peirce took a lead role in conceptualizing and launching the New England Futures Project, starting with a six-part monthly Peirce-Johnson series -- printed by 27 newspapers -- focused on how that that historic six-state region deals with its 21st century energy, transportation, growth, higher education, broadband and health challenges.