New Bedford Mayor Jon Mitchell will deliver the State of the City address on Wednesday morning. The address will be given at the New Bedford High School during a luncheon. ALSO READ: Woonsocket police say the 4-year-old girl who was critically injured in a crash has died.

With more than 500 people in attendance, Mayor Jon Mitchell said the city is "stronger today than it was a year ago."

Mitchell heralded the city’s accomplishments, but also touched upon some of its challenges, including the cost of housing and the Trump administration’s effort to at least temporarily stop the construction of new offshore wind farms.

In his annual state of the city speech, New Bedford’s longtime mayor Jon Mitchell expressed a strictly positive outlook for the city’s economy, despite the president’s plans to obstruct the offshore wind industry and deport an unprecedented number of undocumented immigrants.