economic development

Business & Economics Fashion 

Pingree Detroit Celebrates Five Years of Triple Bottom Line Innovation and Fashion

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments economic development, entrepreneurship, fashion, local economy, pingree, pingree detroit, repurposing, shoes, social enterprise, sustainability, TBL, triple bottom line, veterans

Pingree Manufacturing celebrates five years in Detroit of veterans empowerment– and making chic footwear and accessories.

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Urban Planning 

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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Business & Economics Parking Urban Planning 

The Billion Dollar Hot-And-Ready: Touring Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena

January 23, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments baumann consulting, comerica park, detroit red wings, detroit tigers, ecoachievers, economic development, Ilitches, LEED, Little Caesars Arena, Mike Ilitch, olympia development, olympia stadium, palace of auburn hills, QLINE, silverdom, usgbc, woodward avenue

Detroit’s Little Caesars Arena is impressive. Whether it’s a masterpiece of sustainability of community development, on the other hand, is up for debate.

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Public transit Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

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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Environment Transit infrastructure Urban Planning 

On The Banks of the Mighty Maumee

August 29, 2019August 29, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amtrak, economic development, gary, green stormwater infrastructure, GSI, habitat loss, habitat restoration, johnstown, manifest destiny, maumee river, native landscaping, ohio, parks, prairie grasses, public space, rail infrastructure, stormwater management, tallgrass prairie, toledo, trains, youngstown

In anticipation of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s imminent assumption of her role as supreme socialist ruler of the cosmos, in which she

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Urban Planning 

The Ilitch Perfidy Makes It To The Media Majors– Now What?

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 admin 0 Comments Detroit, economic development, HBO, Ilitches, Little Caesars Arena, Midtown Detroit, Mike Ilitch, Red Wings, Those Macomb County Types

With HBO now coming after Detroit’s second-favorite billionaire family in the city’s Holy Trinity– comprising the Ilitches, Dan Gilbert, and

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Cities & Urban Planning Detroit Michigan Missouri Real Estate 

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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