The Mayor is out talking up Youngstown (I've heard him in another State and he's good), we're at home pushing new ideas that ideologically line up with the 2010 plan, but some key city officials aren't with the program. If I'm getting this right, I guess we need to find out who they are and apply some pressure.
One idea about implementing 2010 in terms of a Green Belt and a Tech Belt is to have a package to offer businesses interested in the area. We seem to know how to attract the Big Box stores, the garbage industry and prisons. Perhaps they come so easily because they don't need a talent pool, good commuter connections to other major cities, or require good public schools. But heck, we've got two tech firms right downtown. Why not use them as a models and set about creating a package to solicit companies of their size and scope.
Before reading Tyler Clark's and the Youngstown Moxie II blog, I thought that surely Youngstown had such a package and was out soliciting technology and "green" companies...but after reading I'm not so confident.
Will Youngstown get its share?
The Mayor is out talking up Youngstown (I've heard him in another State and he's good), we're at home pushing new ideas that ideologically line up with the 2010 plan, but some key city officials aren't with the program. If I'm getting this right, I guess we need to find out who they are and apply some pressure.
One idea about implementing 2010 in terms of a Green Belt and a Tech Belt is to have a package to offer businesses interested in the area. We seem to know how to attract the Big Box stores, the garbage industry and prisons. Perhaps they come so easily because they don't need a talent pool, good commuter connections to other major cities, or require good public schools. But heck, we've got two tech firms right downtown. Why not use them as a models and set about creating a package to solicit companies of their size and scope.
Before reading Tyler Clark's and the Youngstown Moxie II blog, I thought that surely Youngstown had such a package and was out soliciting technology and "green" companies...but after reading I'm not so confident.
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