As the pandemic grinds on, the future of Main Streets and commercial neighborhoods—and the restaurants, bars and shops that bring them to life—is in peril. What can cities do? Veronica Briseño, Economic Development Director at the City of Austin, Texas, and Kimberly Branam, Executive Director at Prosper Portland, in Portland, Oregon, have answers.
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Prosper Portland | ProsperPortland.us | @ProsperPortland
The City of Austin | AustinTexas.gov | @AustinTexasGov
Music: Purple-Planet.
Jul 7, 2020
23 min
Resonance President Chris Fair and VP, Strategy & Economic Development, Steven Pedigo speak with Aaron Bolzle, executive director of Tulsa Remote and Ben Stewart, senior program officer at the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Learn how the Tulsa Remote program has used remote work as a way to attract and retain the creative class in the city and what talent attraction and talent retention lessons can be learned for other cities.
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Tulsa Remote | TulsaRemote.com
Music: Purple-Planet.com
Jun 21, 2020
20 min
The Best Cities podcast explores the stories, people and strategies behind the worlds’ top-performing cities—places that are vibrant, prosperous and coveted by investors, visitors and talent, and loved by their residents.
The Best Cities podcast is produced by Resonance Consultancy, a place branding firm specializing in solving complex tourism, real estate and economic development challenges with a unique combination of research, strategy, branding, marketing and placemaking.
Music: Purple-Planet
Jun 9, 2020
6 min