Category Archives: Economic-development

Conversation w/ Emily Anderson of the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group

Pittsburgh is an amazing city with amazing folks doing amazing work; Emily Anderson, a project manager for the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group (PCRG), is no exception! Check out this great conversation we had with her during the 4th Annual Great Lakes Urban Exchange Conference. To learn more about Emily and the Pittsburgh Community Reinvestment Group [...]

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The Cleveland Comeback: Version 5.0

Every decade or so in Cleveland the headlines reappear like locusts—a Renaissance, a Rebirth.  In fact the city has been remade in the visions of its leaders over and over.  But today, we are still poor, still municipally cash-strapped, more vacant, and shrunk.
Today is 2011, and the reality is not what was envisioned in the late 80′s and 90′s—or that Cleveland heyday of being high on the renaissance hog.  After all, the leaders had been building new stuff: the Galleria (’87), Key Tower (’91), the Rock and Roll Hall of …

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