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The Pivotal Project
developing opportunities within Craig County, Virginia

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Welcome to the homesite of the Pivotal Project !

The western counties of Virginia

The Project starts with a vision of significantly improved natural resource management for people and finds a pleasant, cost-effective, modern means to achieve that vision. It clears up objectives, designs a system, and implements it - a new, private, diverse business conglomerate. Starting in the County, the entrepreneurial system expands in the state and worldwide. Within 6 years (from 2002) it is providing financial gains to the County, citizens, and staff along with an improved quality of life.

Not a county organization, it works in the county, for the county

Today, August, 2002, there is no project, no action. It is only a proposal, a concept for use by many people. This website lays it out for all to see. Hopefully, people will be creative, make adjustments and corrections, and communicate for making improvements, additions, and later successes.

The Project creates a not-for-profit entity, an enterprise system, a conglomerate temporarily called Pivotal-Rig, Inc.. There are more than 50 enterprises described, all that can be working together. After selecting, probably 40 will remain, half indoor based, half outdoor based. There will be new ideas and amendments in a profitable system for the people of the county and the region. Some businesses that are already in existence will want to affiliate.

This web site contains three major parts ...

• Table of Contents
• The Strategy - the basis for the Project, what it and the new company will do, and
• The Business Plan - a brief document (edited from that shared with the Craig County Industrial Development Agency, and currently under review by the Business Technology Center, Blacksburg, (December 18,2002). The proposed company is now called Rural System, Inc.
  It also has a few ideas, answers to "how do we get started?"