Regionalism Rediscovered in St Louis
10.28.2011
Stop me if you’ve heard this one:
“‘If you want to create jobs, you have to start acting like a region,’ said Chris Brewer, a vice president for economics at AECOM. That means no more incentives to companies just for moving across a city line or even the Mississippi River. No more sniping among the different groups that work on regional economic development. And, he said, political leaders have to step up and speak for the region, not just their own patch of turf.”
St. Louis’s latest call for rethinking economic development comes in the form of a 247-page study reported on today in the Post-Dispatch. The study is quite good, and regional collaboration is clearly the right message. But for a region that’s been studied as much as St. Louis has, I’m not sure what will be gained by sounding the same alarms again.
How would you have spent the $1.575 million federal grant?
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