Three CEOs for Cities partner cities, Cleveland, Detroit, and Memphis, will be placing a renewed emphasis on economic development in the coming months. Each one of only six pilot cities, they will be participating in The White House's Strong Cities, Strong Communities initiative, an interagency program that aims to strengthen…

"Paid to Sprawl: Subsidized Job Flight from Cleveland and Cincinnati," a recently released study by Good Jobs and funded by the Ford Foundation, revealed some unsettling truths about the implications of business relocation subsidies in Ohio. The study shows that property tax breaks given to companies to relocate within…

Cleveland State University, a CEOs for Cities partner, hosted President Obama and members of his cabinet for a forum on small business growth. The President chose Cleveland for its outstanding work in transitioning from a rust-belt economy to a tech-belt economy. The Winning the Future Forum on Small Business…

Philips recently released Liveanomics: Urban Liveability and Economic Growth, the second of two Economic Intelligence Reports on urbanism. The report examines the importance of livability and the role of business in a successful urban area. While every city is different, FedEx CEO Fred Smith believes that to have any prosperous…

CEOs for Cities opened registration for the Talent Dividend Prize, a three-year competition to increase college attainment in major cities. CEOs for Cities’ research shows that 58 percent of a city’s success, as measured by per capita income, can be attributed to post-secondary degree attainment. Thus, the Talent…

Newly elected New York Governor Andrew Cuomo wants to support economic development through higher education. SUNY Chancellor and CEOs for Cities board member Nancy L. Zimpher, the visionary behind The Power of SUNY, a strategic plan that focuses on the role of higher education in fostering a better economy,…

Philadelphia's Center City District continues to innovate when it comes to retaining the young talent the city has worked so hard to attract by making the core appealing to that same talent once they couple and have kids.  Today the Center City District launched a new website, KidsinCenterCity.com,…

President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden and Sec. of Transportation Ray LaHood held a press conference today to announce a new U.S. push to transform travel in America, creating high-speed rail lines from city to city, reducing dependence on cars and planes and spurring economic development.

The President laid…

Bruce Katz of Brookings (on leave to HUD)  is speaking now at the NYU Furman Center's Housing Policy Conference.  What does it mean for a national government to create an Office of Urban Policy?  Bruce says it is a recognition that place matters.  Cities and metro areas are key to…

In the coming decade Tampa Bay is expecting a huge wave of Baby Boomers to roll into the region.  Anticipating this trend, CreativeTampaBay's Deanne Roberts and Michelle Bauer (both CEOs for Cities network partners) are already strategizing on how to capitalize on this impending opportunity for their city.  

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End of year cleaning brought to the surface a 10-year old paper by Ash Amin, University of Durham, on regional economic development. Given the times, it still seems relevant. 

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One of the best blogs on local economic development and politics continues to be Smart City Memphis, written by good friend and colleague Tom Jones.  Today he's written another incisive post on the Aerotropolis strategy being pursued by a number of cities.

A Note from Our President:
Speeding the Change We Need in Cities

Twenty-two. That's how many cities we've visited since March 31 to present the Talent Dividend.  Thanks to the Lumina Foundation and DeVry, cross-sector…