They'd abandon this nonsense about region and community being one in the same.
Time after time I read the following quote attributed to NC Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker:
“has made it very clear that she believes economic development happens at a community level.”
And yet it's as if even Sharon Decker is clueless as to what she is saying.
She's right, economic development does happen at the community level. But communities are not regions, communities are much smaller. So why does the City of Greensboro, the Greensboro Partnership, the Piedmont Triad Partnership the North Carolina Commerce Department and everyone else involved in economic development here in Greensboro continue to promote industrial parks 10 miles outside the city limits and megasites in other counties?
Why are they promoting megasites at all when North Carolina already has no less that 18 empty megasites state wide and 180 empty megasites across the United States?
With what may be the largest round of layoffs in history about to come to Greensboro, these folks had best be thinking about how to put people to work right now and put them to work in our communities doing the types of things they're already skilled to do.
Or you can just sit back and watch every grand plan, every "big idea" Greensboro's elite ever dreamed up vanish right before your eyes.
Do I have solutions? Lots of them. But I'm not going to post them online for smarter cities to get first.
Time after time I read the following quote attributed to NC Commerce Secretary Sharon Decker:
“has made it very clear that she believes economic development happens at a community level.”
And yet it's as if even Sharon Decker is clueless as to what she is saying.
She's right, economic development does happen at the community level. But communities are not regions, communities are much smaller. So why does the City of Greensboro, the Greensboro Partnership, the Piedmont Triad Partnership the North Carolina Commerce Department and everyone else involved in economic development here in Greensboro continue to promote industrial parks 10 miles outside the city limits and megasites in other counties?
Why are they promoting megasites at all when North Carolina already has no less that 18 empty megasites state wide and 180 empty megasites across the United States?
With what may be the largest round of layoffs in history about to come to Greensboro, these folks had best be thinking about how to put people to work right now and put them to work in our communities doing the types of things they're already skilled to do.
Or you can just sit back and watch every grand plan, every "big idea" Greensboro's elite ever dreamed up vanish right before your eyes.
Do I have solutions? Lots of them. But I'm not going to post them online for smarter cities to get first.
