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Do economic developers have it wrong?

When it comes to older neighborhoods and downtowns, we often depend heavily on market forces to drive development. For most economic development practitioners, it’s a routine: we assemble our teams, an harmonious hierarchy of the like-minded; we produce marketing materials, oddly similar to one another – community facts, community profile, a YouTube video; broadcast our statistics, our sectors and our available lands; practice the art of growing business from the inside out, by way of visitation; bounce from fire to fire…

David Tuley

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