Steps to Get Stuff Done: Going from Planning to Doing We’ve all seen them. If you’ve been in the community, downtown, or economic development worlds for more than five minutes, you’ve seen them. The plans that were paid...
A Look at How Corpus Christi is Flipping the Script on the Role Economic Developers Play By Joe Borgstrom, Principal, Place + Main Advisors If there’s one thing we’ve learned during the COVID crisis, it’s that jobs that...
As someone who has spent their entire career in one sector of economic development or another, from industrial recruitment to downtown redevelopment, I’ve had the good fortune to see communities do some really astonishing things. Many have been...
“Follow the money.” It seems overly simplistic, but following the money is a basic rule economists follow. If you want to know people’s motivations for things, especially in the world of public policy, follow the money. Before we...
It’s hard to fix hundreds of years of fucked up practices in a few simple steps and I won’t pretend to. But we can at least do better.
It’s hard not to read those words and hear R.E.M. front man Michael Stipe’s voice. It’s also hard to realize there will be no “getting back to normal,” but here we are. I’m here to tell you though,...
