#econdev — Public Fediverse posts
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One way gov't helps businesses is by issuing and protecting patents, copyrights and trademarks. These protections are central to business as we know it today. Without them, innovation and creative work would wilt. http://www.fromthegovt.com/patents-copyrights-and-trademarks/ #econdev
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Like its counterparts around the country, NYC’s Economic Development Corp saw its role as bringing jobs and tax base to its city. Now Mayor Mamdani wants to add a third responsibility: economic justice. But what does that mean, and how could an #econdev agency deliver it? This bears watching. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/nyregion/lina-khan-shorris-edc-mamdani.html
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Book of the Week: “The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism” is an optimistic view of cities and urban potential. Reason: Cities are where the best educated, most creative people settle, the authors say, and these are the ones who make the global economy tick. What’s needed, they add, are greater civic collaboration and new forms of finance. https://www.atlantaurbanist.com/book/the-new-localism/ #econdev
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The “electro-industrial economy”: We think of industries as being generators of pollution. But what if states created clean-energy districts where manufacturers could locate? Would abundant, cheap, sustainable energy give your state an economic development advantage? A think tank says … yes it would. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/advanced-industrial-zones-electro-industrial-economy/ #econdev
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There’s an old saying for collective activity that does not result in collective gain. It’s “taking in each other’s washing.” When we think about urban economies, we need to focus on things that bring dollars to a city OR encourage local spending that might have gone elsewhere. This includes the “creative sector.” https://www.wbez.org/arts-culture/2026/06/25/creative-economy-impact-study-arts-alliance-illinois-workers #arts #econdev
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Should we know what our problems are? Of course. It’s why we have data that tracks how cities and states do in population growth, economic development, etc. And when we see problems, we should face them squarely. But panic serves no purpose. Boston and other parts of MA have issues with growth. Answers: Reduce obstacles, build assets … and have a little faith. https://www.bostonmagazine.com/news/2026/03/24/is-massachusetts-economy-in-trouble/ #econdev
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Manufacturing jobs aren’t coming back to the U.S. In fact, the opposite. Automation will eliminate more jobs than tariffs could possibility add. So is there no hope for factory towns? There is … if they become something else. We see this in a small NC city that was once a center of furniture making and is now becoming a place for service jobs and exurban commuters. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/opinion/america-manufacturing-recovery-china.html #econdev
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Last call for tomorrow's April 23 webinar to learn about the more than 200 public lands scenic byways, like the Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways, and byways in our U.S. Forest Service National Forests and Grasslands. Hosted with our wonderful National Scenic Byway Association clients:
#SocialTown #tourism #travel #RoadTrip #ScenicByway #EconDev #EconomicDevelopment
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Join us for an April 23, 2026 webinar next week to learn about the more than 200 public lands scenic byways, like the Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways, and byways in our U.S. Forest Service National Forests and Grasslands. Hosted with our wonderful National Scenic Byway Association clients:
#SocialTown #tourism #travel #RoadTrip #ScenicByway #EconDev #EconomicDevelopment
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In the mid-20th century, NYC was a center of manufacturing. Over the years, many of these jobs disappeared or moved away. Not to worry: NYC found a new economic base, FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate). But hold on. Could these jobs also leave for less expensive places? So far, lots of worries but not much evidence. In fact, kind of the opposite. https://www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/14/wall-street-tax-the-rich-employment-exodus-economy/ #econdev
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Join us for an April 23, 2026 webinar to learn about the more than 200 public lands scenic byways, like the Bureau of Land Management Back Country Byways, and byways in our U.S. Forest Service National Forests and Grasslands. Hosted with our wonderful National Scenic Byway Association clients:
#tourism #EconDev #EconomicDevelopment #ScenicByway #travel #RoadTrip #GetOutside
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"When a retailer is struggling, parking becomes a convenient scapegoat. It’s external. It’s civic. It’s someone else’s responsibility. It feels a lot better than asking harder questions . . ."
https://molly-alexander.com/2026/03/23/when-retailers-say-theres-no-parking-what-they-really-mean/
#SocialTown #tourism #marketing #EconDev #EconomicDevelopment #SmallBusiness
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The internet is the most transformative technology of our era, and it was created by the federal gov't. Here's how this gov't creation beat out private competitors ... and what it tells us about the role of gov't in economic development. http://www.fromthegovt.com/the-internet/ #econdev
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One way gov't helps businesses is by issuing and protecting patents, copyrights and trademarks. These protections are central to business as we know it today. Without them, innovation and creative work would wilt. http://www.fromthegovt.com/patents-copyrights-and-trademarks/ #econdev
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Here’s a hard truth: Local gov’ts cannot help the poor without growth. That’s because they need rising residential and commercial land values to pay for their efforts. Wilmington DE’s city council says it has a plan for affordability. But in a city that lost more than a third of its population since the 1950s, does it have a plan for growth? https://whyy.org/articles/wilmington-affordability-housing-poverty-council/ #econdev
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Hapeville is a small industrial town south of Atlanta whose main industry, a car assembly plant, closed decades ago. Hapeville could have simply withered away. Instead, it found a new purpose: welcoming the #arts and helping artists create studios there. Why would artists want to live and work in this aging industrial suburb? Because, one says, “They wanted us here.” https://www.ajc.com/arts-entertainment/2026/01/small-in-size-hapeville-dwarfs-other-metro-burgs-as-a-home-for-the-arts/ #econdev
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Data centers, those massive warehouses filled with computers needed for AI, have worn out their welcome in cities, where citizens dislike their size, sounds and voracious appetite for electricity and water. So where are data centers going now? To #rural areas, where owners believe the welcome mat is still out. https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/12/why-big-tech-sees-georgia-farmland-as-ripe-for-data-centers/ #econdev
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Book of the Week: “The New Localism: How Cities Can Thrive in the Age of Populism” is an optimistic view of cities and urban potential. Reason: Cities are where the best educated, most creative people settle, the authors say, and these are the ones who make the global economy tick. What’s needed, they add, are greater civic collaboration and new forms of finance. https://www.atlantaurbanist.com/book/the-new-localism/ #econdev
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In the 1990s, a town in central ME offered visitors a “shuttered mill next to shuttered mill going through a downtown that had a lot of empty storefronts.” So how did Skowhegen turn itself into a destination in the decades since? Let’s sit in on a conversation among insiders. https://www.brookings.edu/articles/skowhegan-maine-is-making-waves-as-it-builds-a-vibrant-future-along-the-kennebec-river/ #rural #econdev
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“Low volume, high value”: If you are involved in economic development, the key is to know your city’s strengths … even if they don’t seem all that impressive from the outside. An industrial city in CT is finding its way by appealing to a particular kind of company, one that needs highly skilled workers … and will pay workers accordingly. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/11/manufacturing-innovation-cities-trades/ #econdev
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Canada could build #OffshoreWind power to sell electricity to the underdeveloping US.
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“Early movers” are companies that, by jumping into new fields before others, hold a competitive edge. Cities can be early movers too, by embracing something before others recognize its worth. This explains Atlanta and air travel. Atlanta built its municipal airport seven years after the Wright brothers flew at Kitty Hawk. It has nurtured air travel ever since. https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/100-years-of-atlanta-in-the-air-a-timeline-of-hartsfield-jackson-and-delta-air-lines/ #airports #econdev
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New data obtained by the Post-Dispatch indicates hundreds of the buildings mangled by the May 16 tornado in St. Louis were likely vacant before the storm even hit.
That could hobble the city's efforts to rebuild the neighborhoods hit hardest by the storm.
#stl #stlouis #missouri #tornado #disaster #fema #econdev #housing #localjournalism #datajournalism
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A large farm implement company moved its HQs to Atlanta in 1990, where it employs 500 workers. As it renewed its lease recently, the CEO explained why his company stayed. Atlanta, he said, was an easy place to find talented workers … or convince workers elsewhere to move to. In a nutshell, THIS is the ultimate economic development advantage. https://www.ajc.com/business/2025/10/metro-atlanta-fortune-500-is-keeping-its-hq-in-gwinnett-heres-why/ #econdev
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The unlikeliest growth center in the U.S. may be flat, gray, muggy Columbus OH, whose population has grown by 28% since 2000. What is the appeal of a rust-belt city with no coast or scenic landscape? In a word, jobs. And why do jobs locate there? Columbus has something businesses like: a civic culture that rewards cooperation and collaboration. https://www.governing.com/poy/2025/columbus-new-world-finding-success-in-the-midwest #econdev
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🚀 Big news in biotech!
Amgen is investing $600M to build a cutting-edge center for science and innovation at its global HQ in Thousand Oaks, CA—driving advancements in biotechnology and healthcare solutions. 🌱Meanwhile, Enveric Biosciences is relocating its HQ to Cambridge, MA, strengthening one of the world’s most dynamic biotech hubs.
👉 Full story: http://dlvr.it/TMw70V
#Biotech #Innovation #Healthcare #Amgen #EnvericBiosciences #LifeSciences #EconDev
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🚗💼 Hyundai is taking U.S. investment to the next level! The company will invest $26B and create 25,000 new jobs, with $5B going toward steel, automotive, and robotics between 2025–2028. This bold step highlights Hyundai’s commitment to innovation and growth in the American market. Read more: http://dlvr.it/TMmxx2
#Innovation #Manufacturing #Hyundai #EconomicGrowth #Robotics #JobCreation #StrategicInvestment #EconDev
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Automation came for industrial jobs in the Midwest in the late 20th century and early 21st. In the near future, AI will come for the high-paying professional and service jobs common to all big cities, an Oxford professor predicts. What should these places do? Plan for retraining workers and begin the search for new industries. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/19/opinion/ai-job-loss-deindustrialization.html #econdev
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If you study civic progress, you see that #greatprojects follow a pattern. A group of involved people sees a need and discusses ways of solving it. In time, a workable solution emerges. Then someone, often an elected official, sees a way forward and puts things in motion. In a nutshell, this is how a computer chip plant came to OH. https://www.cleveland.com/news/2025/08/from-moonshot-to-mega-site-how-a-lorain-councilwomans-bold-email-set-ohio-on-a-path-to-economic-transformation.html #econdev
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The internet is the most transformative technology of our era, and it was created by the federal gov't. Here's how this gov't creation beat out private competitors ... and what it tells us about the role of gov't in economic development. http://www.fromthegovt.com/the-internet/ #econdev