I just settled in at the Doubletree Hotel's Ormandy Ballroom for a two-day conference sponsored by the International Economic Development Council. Over the next day and a half, the biggest names and thinkers in urban economic development will be reviewing 40 years of work in that field, discussing what has worked, what hasn't worked and where we go from here.
They've chose Philadelphia for the site of this event for the specific examples offered by this city's recent history. In fact, at 4 pm today, they're devoting an entire session to "What we learned about urban economic development in Philadelphia."
I'll be live blogging throughout the event and shooting some video from some of the more interesting presentations. I've also just learned that Michael Nutter will be at the lunch today. Though, if you think about it, that's not too surprising. For someone who has "wonk" thrown into his description as often as Nutter does, an event like this is like the World Series is to a baseball fan.
I'll also be using what I learn here to add to our "Good Growth" and "Jobs" pages on thenextmayor.com/
More in a little while...
Comments (1)
Nutter just has to allow the liens to be collected on all this property, gas, water, taxes, fines.
The buyers at sheriff sale will start pulling. permits right away.
The schools will get moola. The police can have enough funding to not have to work as Loomis targets after they retire because they have no health care.
This is not hard people. If something has to be paid against an asset, allow the asset to be foreclosed so the city can get the money to the appropriate lienholders, itself, PGW, PWD, etc.
Most of this property owing money is vacant, anyway.
Where the property isn't vacant that holds liens, it's where people elect Jannie Blackwell over and over.
Concentrate sheriff sales in her district so that the 40% of all properties that owe property taxes pay for the cost of her $10 million ransom.
The next mayor can't be mr. nice guy to everyone. You have to choose sides -- the city, or the cheap votes.
Posted by Anonymous | October 10, 2007 7:55 PM