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Lancaster, PA: As A Small City Thrives, Its Suburbs Founder

January 28, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 1 Comment amazon, cartoon network hotel, economic development, hospitality, hotels, lancaster, mccaskey high school, retail, retail apocalypse, shopping malls, Sprawl, strip malls, urban renewal

On a recent trip back to my hometown, I poked around the eastern suburbs, visiting a friend who had just

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The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon bid, amazon hq2, autonomous vehicles, bay area, cass corridor, economic development, Ford, garlin gilchrist, Gretchen Whitmer, jeff bezos, Midtown Detroit, mobility, nissan, smart city, sustainable mobility, talent attraction, talent retention, techtown, transit, transportation, wayne state university

This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for

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Well, World, We Had A Good Run

August 22, 2019August 22, 2019 admin 0 Comments alt right, amazon, austerity, bull market, corporate debt, debt, far right, interest, mass shootings, mexico border, neoliberalism, nihilism, stock market, trump, white supremacy, yield curve

I guess this is it. The Amazon, the globe’s largest carbon sink, is burning, the yield curve has inverted, there

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Will Jeff Bezos Be The Next Billionaire to “save” Detroit?

October 20, 2017October 20, 2017 admin 0 Comments amazon, amazon bid, corporate welfare, Detroit, economic development, gary, public subsidy, silver bullet

The water cooler topic du jour in Detroit is the grumbling about why Amazon won’t move here because the region

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