19 Things Economic Developers Need to Know This Week
The stories Dane thinks you need to see. July 10, 2025 edition.
Welcome to this week's issue of What Economic Developers Need to Know This Week, where we explore the evolving dynamics of our economy.
This week we have 19 tools , stories, graphics, charts and videos that I think you'll find informative, useful, inspiring, and perhaps even humorous. Some are economic development related directly, and some only indirectly. 🤔
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1) Economic Development and Developers in the News # 204 - Econ dev news from 89 economic development executives and organizations in 32 states.
2) Podcast 182 - Engineering Economic Success: A Systems Approach to Development with Jason El Koubi - "When Your Direct Reports Anonymously Review You"
3) 20 Things Economic Developers Need to Know This Week - The stories Dane thinks you need to see. July 10, 2025 edition.
4) Economic Development and Developers in the News # 203 - Econ dev news from 122 economic development executives and organizations in 36 states.
5) Podcast 181: Beyond the Strip - Clark County's Economic Transformation with Shani Coleman - Yes, People Actually Live There (They Don't All Sleep in Hotels)
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6) From Jim Gibson: How local economies evolve: Lessons from evolutionary economics
7) Factories were pushed out of cities. Their return could revive downtowns: Changes in zoning rules have allowed small manufacturers to return to the districts and neighborhoods they began leaving a century ago.
8) Why cities want to land this beloved grocery chain: Trader Joes
9) How fairgrounds evolved into prime redevelopment hubs: Today, the old Brockton Fairgrounds could see new life as a multi-use hub of housing, commercial, and light industrial uses that not only reinforces the land's importance, but, more importantly, uplifts the struggling Massachusetts city located 40 minutes south of Boston.
10) For the last two hundred years, the west's fertility rate has been falling. (below two children per couple). Then came the Baby Boom of 1946-1964. Fertility boomed, everywhere all at once. Why? And what does it tell us about the future.
11) How health care remade the US economy:
12) According to new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, consumer prices rose 2.7% year over year in June:
13) America’s first state, Delaware, has had a vice-like grip on corporate America for decades. But that hold appears to be fading as Andreessen Horowitz, the $45 billion VC powerhouse, said Wednesday it would reincorporate in Nevada, criticizing Delaware’s business court for creating “legal uncertainty.”:
14) From Andy Portera: How to go from a "brain drain" to a "brain gain" town.
