We dug into the numbers and found that manufacturing is indeed still a large share of gross domestic product (GDP) in Ohio communities.
Bright Spots in Housing, Entrepreneurship in the Mahoning Valley
#GOPCThread: The Economic Development Potential of Craft Beer & SMLCs
There’s No Such Thing as Bad Weather: Winterizing Our Communities in the Face of COVID
PRO Neighborhoods Grant awarded to Cleveland Development Advisors for neighborhood development
Last week, Cleveland Development Advisors (CDA), an affiliate of the Greater Cleveland Partnership, announced they were the recipients of a $5 million grant from JPMorgan Chase to support development in the Cleveland neighborhoods of Clark-Fulton, Glenville, Buckeye-Kinsman, and their immediately surrounding areas. CDA has contributed a further $3.75 million to the project, taking the total commitment for the project to nearly $9 million.
GOPC Attends JobsOhio Regional Board Meeting in Lima
Regional Tax Sharing: An Old Idea to Benefit Ohio’s Future?
Last year, the state of Ohio created the Regional Economic Development Alliance Study Committee with the aim of studying the features, benefits, and challenges involved in establishing metropolitan economic development alliances that would incentivize cooperation, enhance success, and provide for greater efficiency in economic development among participating municipal corporations, namely in metropolitan areas.
Michigan’s Redevelopment Ready Communities Program is an Innovative Way to Encourage Redevelopment
Research by GOPC has identified a dire need for policies that provide technical assistance to community that lack the necessary capacity to fully revitalize. The Redevelopment Ready Communities program from the Michigan Economic Development Corporation is one program that has shown promise in addressing this problem and is quintessential example of good public policy.