For years economic developers have been advised (at least by me) that hearing about announcements of new projects is not nearly as interesting as hearing about what happened next. “After the Announcement” caught my...
This article from The Guardian is not current, but it’s relevant. It’s the story of a town in Japan whose circumstances are familiar there and may sound familiar to many of you – losing population,...
About 5 minutes after you have intrigued companies or individuals with the idea of moving to your community, they will want to understand neighborhoods. If you are bigger than a single-stoplight, people live and work...
A couple of months ago Corey Murphy from the New Castle/Henry County EDC posted about two students and a graduate of the Henry County REMC Machine Trades class who made a personal presentation to the EDC Board of...
If you’ve ever had to answer the question “are we there yet?” you know that it’s really about how much longer, not how much farther. Economic development maps used to describe a community’s access to specific places or...