The ROI of Placemaking
Placemaking is a powerful concept that has been transforming cities and communities worldwide. It goes beyond traditional urban planning...
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Economic Resilience & Recovery
A collection of blog posts on themes of economic sustainability, recovery, and resilience.
Green Gentrification: A Pernicious Paradox
As cities work to make improvements to advance resiliency and sustainability, a ‘pernicious paradox’ has begun to emerge as neighborhoods...
Defining Resilience
Clients often ask us, “what does resilience actually mean?” Turns out, there are many definitions of this word. Ecologists may think of...
Giving Tuesday 2022
In honor of Giving Tuesday, Fourth Economy has made a donation to Interise, a Boston, Massachusetts-based non-profit whose mission is to...
Three Takeaways from IEDC
IEDC’s annual conference gives economic development practitioners a chance to share ideas, best practices, and talk about the major...
Allegheny Together Helps Business Districts Thrive
What is Allegheny Together? Allegheny County Economic Development (ACED) manages business retention, expansion, and attraction for...
Redefining Built Environments with Urban Trails
Urban trails and greenways are key components of modern outdoor development. These trails, often positioned alongside existing assets...
8 Steps to Making Yours an "Outdoor Town"
Almost all of us who spend time in cities and towns have enjoyed a couple hours on a public, urban trail. Listening to the birds chirp,...
Know your place! Three ideas to get you started.
The Fourth Economy team was a bit preachy (be nice) before the pandemic…trying to tell people why ‘place’ matters to economic development...
10 DEIB Initiatives You Should Know About
By Carly Horne, Community & Economic Development Consultant Fourth Economy is committed to advancing positive economic outcomes for the...
Taking the Pulse of our Community
At the start of the pandemic — TWENTY long, long, long,...LONG months ago — talk quickly turned from the very real and scary practical...
Celebrating Economic Inclusion in Ramsey County, Minnesota
The residents of Ramsey County, Minnesota – which includes the city of St. Paul – are the most diverse of any county in the state,...
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