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After COVID, an ‘Amazon recovery,’ or real Community Wealth?
August 14, 2020

After COVID, an ‘Amazon recovery,’ or real Community Wealth?

This guest blog comes from Ted Howard, co-founder and president of The Democracy Collaborative. As our nation continues to suffer a staggering health crisis, the unprecedented economic shutdown induced by the pandemic is leading to a shattered economic landscape. Shattered with it is the possibility of returning to the status...

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Economic Development
Prospecting in the Opportunity Zone gold rush
January 17, 2020

Prospecting in the Opportunity Zone gold rush

(This piece originally appeared in the Jan/Feb 2020 issue of The Review magazine.) Created by the federal Tax Cut and Jobs Act at the end of 2017, Opportunity Zones have all the features of a gold rush: things are moving very quickly, everybody is excited, and nobody actually knows if...

  • Placemaking
  • Economic Development

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