by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 30, 2019 | Amazon
The Virginia Tech Innovation Campus was a core element of Virginia’s proposal to attract Amazon HQ2. Company executives this summer reiterated its importance in choosing Northern Virginia: Many locations had current tech talent. What was unique...
by Smart Incentives | Sep 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Service industries dominate modern economies, especially when measured by number of jobs. Yet service activities tend to be underrepresented in US economic research. For good quality research on service industries, it is helpful to look abroad to the European...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 10, 2019 | Integrated housing and economic development
As we’ve written previously, affordable housing is becoming a greater priority for economic development organizations because it affects talent attraction and retention. A new report from the Urban Institute prepared for the Washington, DC, region explicitly...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Sep 5, 2019 | Incentive programs
A new white paper from our colleagues at the Council of Development Finance Agencies (CDFA) looks at how traditional community development finance tools, including incentives, can be applied to support local and regional food system development. Food systems here...
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