Economic development isn’t a function of marketing- it’s a function of business process control (Kaizen for quality of life) and customer service. People visit Disneyland because they like entering a perfect fantasy land- where all the grass is cut, there isn’t a spot of dirt, and everything goes exactly how they expect- it’s fun, it’s Read More
Just so as not to confuse the people in charge- who think every economic development project involves tax abatement and giving away the store- here are some pictures to showcase what a little curb appeal can do for an area like downtown. Here is a bridge before: Here is a bridge after: Any questions?
Instead of handing out tax abatements to lure companies to our area, how about making world class sporting facilities available to their employees? This is part of the idea behind Five Rivers Outdoors- an outdoor adventure program run by Five Rivers Metroparks. Project leader, Greg Brumitt envisions utilizing our extensive park system for outdoor adventure Read More
The Dayton City Paper wrote a great article about making Brown Street people-friendly. A few weeks ago work began on replacing Arby’s and Lee’s Famous Receipe with a new-urbanist mixed use building. The link to the article is here: Cityscapes: Brown Street Walkabouts :: :: Weekly News and Culture It’s this kind of development that Read More
I’ve been meaning to write about this for a bit. The quaint little bedroom community of Waynesville, with its collection of antique joints in “downtown” is about to double in size, thanks to Oberer Companies who plan to add 863 homes on the 495 acre site of the LeMay farm. The 2000 census had Waynesville’s Read More
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