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Placemaking Is Essential To Winning In The 21st Century

Placemaking is essential to winning in the 21st Century

  • January 19, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Place Making
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This post is about what good-paying jobs focused economic development should look like. About what it takes to grow, retain and attract high-wage jobs. It draws lessons Michigan can learn about winning in the 21st Century from our posts on…

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No Talent, No Transit, No Amazon

No talent, no transit, no Amazon

  • March 16, 2018
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Public Investment
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So Grand Rapids offered Amazon up to $2 billion in tax breaks to locate their HQ2 in their region. As John Gallagher points out in a Detroit Free Press article on the topic, big tax breaks were offered across the…

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