The Michigan Prosperity Agenda is a monthly radio show that focuses on how to make Michigan communities better places to live, work and play.

The topic of the March episode was the role of talent in placemaking, and our President and CEO Carol Coletta was an invited guest.…

The things that make a city delightful -- like parks, historic sites, museums and beaches - disproportionally attracted highly educated individuals and experienced faster housing price appreciation, according to "City Beautiful," a paper published this month by Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia economists Gerald A. Carlino and Albert…