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How Are Economic Developers Partnering to Solve Workforce Challenges?

Community and Economic Development Program of UNC

To attract, retain and expand businesses in today’s tight labor market, economic development organizations (EDOs) are becoming more involved than ever in partnerships to help meet employers’ talent pipeline and training needs. Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation in Pa.; What do those partnerships look like?

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How do you make the ground floor of an arena strengthen the area around it, rather than diminish it? | Philadelphia 76ers

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

If we develop it right, and we include that impactful community program module, we can change the whole brand of Baltimore.” “People will speak about Baltimore like, ‘Wow, Baltimore is cutting-edge,’ which is what they said about Camden Yards,” Angelos said. “If is the new standard.