There is a set of Zurich Insurance ads that feature professional golfers hooked up to lie detectors and asked things like, “Do you love golf more than your wife’s cooking?”
After telling the audience at the African American Chamber of Commerce June 17 PowerBreakfast how he spent a torrential rain delay at the U.S. Open at Oakmont the day before, Allegheny County Regional Asset District Executive Director Richard Hudik should do one.
“I spent 71 minutes trapped in an outhouse with three other people,” he said. “Hey, I’m fat and I love golf.”
He also loves economic development. During his previous tenure with the state Department of Community and Economic Development, he was the lead negotiator on the state side working to bring the Shell ethane cracker facility to Beaver County. And though RAD’s focus is funding cultural assets, they are often critical to business attraction, retention and job creation.
“Businesses want to locate where there’s a pulse—where something is going on,” he said. “And If you’re negotiating with Asian firms, the Japanese won’t even consider a place that doesn’t have a symphony.”
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