YSU Regional Economic Development Initiative - REDI

This week's YSU Honors College Civic Innovation seminar featured speakers Danny Catullo of Catullo Prime Meats, Dr. Dan Ricchiuti of NEO Urology Associates Inc., and Tim Petrey of HD Davis CPAs, LLC.

Youngstown comparable to Dallas? Not quite - but leadership seems to be following same strategic approaches to Economic Development!

Downtown Dallas: A Turnaround Built on Parks, Arts, and People - Urban Land Magazine Converting offices to residences—and creating valuable parkland—helped lure people and development back to the urban core.

Ian Beniston of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation discusses the Rise, Fall, and Revitalization of Youngstown with the YSU Honors College Civic Innovation Seminar.

"We owe it to our communities to be constantly thinking about this question, and constantly challenging ourselves to think about alternatives, rather than continue down familiar tracks."

How *Not* To Do Economic Development -- Rooflines Camden is one of the most distressed cities in the United States, and if any city needs state help to build its economy, it’s Camden. While the state of New Jersey has responded, the way it has done so adds up to one of the most egregious examples of misuse of economic development incentives in rece...

Quilian Riano of DSGN AGNC and Youngstown's INPLACE Project Team discusses the influence that games have on urban design and decision making processes.

Gaming the System: role-playing spatial and political change | Features | Archinect "[The] sovereign art, of course, will be the one whose laws rule over the relations among men in their totality. That is, Politics.Nothing is alien to Politics, because nothing is alien to the superior art that rules the relations among men.Medicine, war, architecture, etc. – minor and...