Regional Economic Development

“There is a huge sense of community here compared to other places I have been,” said King. “It is definitely a great place to live.”

You can pick up your May edition of the SBA Solutions newsletter. This month you’ll find indispensable information on hiring seasonal and part- time help, including: 1. The can’t-miss SBA publication, Employees: How to find…

"We need to unite as a business community on the issue of economy, environment and community vitality," Brown said. "We’re really looking at the regional scale."

Economic gardening is very much a work in progress. But the experiment is under way in a number of states and communities. What they are learning — and what we are learning in Fort Wayne and Allen County — is that control of an economy is not really possible. Adaptation through innovation, at the edge of chaos, is.

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The point of the program isn’t the $100,000, or even being cool, but to entice all cities to begin redevelopment projects and chase additional state and federal grants that are available to them.

For the third consecutive year, Washington led the nation in new company launches — more than 16 percent above the second-ranked state, Colorado.

On Tuesday, May 25, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., the BBB Serving Eastern Washington, North Idaho and Montana will join the Department of Commerce and BBBOnline to offer a training seminar on Web exporting.

“The lab is a major brick in the development of the Tri-Cities’ recent strong growth,”

Editors at Forbes noted that the best large and small cities to do business in tend to be ones with affordable lifestyles, a concentration of college graduates and strong leisure and cultural options.