Posts Tagged ‘downtown plan’
What Is Economic Development
By Kathy Henderson, Director of Economic Development What is Economic Development? I recently asked that question of high school students and was not at all surprised to get blank stares and crickets. People have many different ideas of what economic development is and some have no idea at all. Jeff Finkle, President and CEO of…
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By Kathy Henderson, Director of Economic Development, CCEDC I read an article in Bloomberg recently by Claire Ballentine about the “Rust Belt” and ways that the local communities are turning around abandoned manufacturing plants. An excerpt from her article sounds a lot like what some of our towns in Carbon County have become. Ms. Ballentine…
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