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Dayton Ohio has a lot of economic development organizations and directors of our many small fiefdoms. Often, one battles another in a shell game moving jobs from one jurisdiction to another. The ideas here are ways to transcend the political boundaries and create real economic growth opportunities.
Just last week, I wrote about the costs of giving tax breaks to big businesses for promised jobs- while small business start-ups have huge obstacles. I spoke of the costs we all pay when we have to make up for the tax revenues that aren’t coming in. From my post: I’m watching a small start-up [...]
Photo Credit: Bruno Furnari via Compfight Imagine what would happen if NYC enacted rules requiring one parking space per every 1000 square feet of living space? NYC wouldn’t be NYC. That’s because the whole value of a dense urban downtown is that by cramming people together, you create critical concentrated buying power that supports retail. [...]
The headline is me being sarcastic. I’ve pushed the idea of a central massive sports/rec plex on the former public housing site between 1-75, the river, Helena and Keowee for years. I suggested instead of 6 new Dayton rec centers- we just build one amazing centralized one- instead, we ended with 2 semi-lame ones. The [...]
When I first came to Dayton there were a lot more people living in the city. Downtown didn’t have two new class A skyscrapers, a new performing arts center, Riverscape, but it still had people working there. The Arcade was open and we didn’t have the Downtown Dayton Partnership or the Dayton Development Coalition or [...]
Bruce Langos sells 24,751 shares of TDC on 02/10/2012 at an average price of $62.09 a share. via Feb. 14, 2012 – TERADATA CORP (TDC) COO Bruce Langos sells 24,751 Shares. that’s $1,536,789 in income- or $34,578 in taxes at 2.25% In 2008 (last date I could quickly find for his compensation) he earned: Total [...]
July 29, 2009, while the economy was in the Dumpster and 5th/3rd was in the process of leaving the old Cit Fed building, my friend Haitham Iman made the gutsy move and took over a space that had failed repeatedly as a deli and put his life savings on the line- here is what I [...]
Full Disclosure: my business, The Next Wave, does limited amounts of graphic design work and printing for the Sidebar and Brian Higgins. His websites for both the Columbus and Dayton restaurants are on our server. Front page, center, top of fold. Multiple photos. Even when Mayor Clay Dixon took me outside to be his punching [...]
Most of the taxpayers in Montgomery County couldn’t tell you how many ice rinks there are in the county. But I can. 2 at Harra arena, Winterland and the Arena. Privately owned. 1 at Kettering Recreation Center. Publicly owned. 1 at South Metro. Privately owned. 3/4 of one at Riverscape. Publicly owned 1 in Randy [...]
In today’s Dayton Daily News we get to read about the “land bank” and how the city is wiping the debts off some sites that they’ve decided were over-encumbered by tax debt and making them available for development: The targeted properties include: • The former Dayton Electro Plate Inc., 1030 Valley Street; • Rita Construction, [...]