Wednesday, May 11, 2011

What does Legacy say about Economic Development?

  • Attract new businesses and expand existing businesses
  • Provide broad range of employment opportunities
  • Encourage economic diversification
  • Facilitate spin-off companies
  • Support entrepreneurial innovation
  • Attract high-tech medical research, visual film and FIRE companies
  • Provide opportunities for higher educational attainment by local workforce
  • Find and protect suitable large industrial park sites
  • Rehabilitate older, derelict and underutilized commercial properties
  • Redevelop vacant, obsolete and brownfield industrial sites
  • Rehabilitate older, derelict and underutilized commercial properties
  • Retain and improve excellent quality of life factors (schools, arts and leisure, environmentally sensitive, safety)
  • Recruit sports and entertainment venues downtown
  • Support tourism, historic, recreational and arts-related attractions

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