Want to Build Your City’s Economy? Think Transportation, Not Tax Breaks - CityLab

Regions with an efficient transportation network stand a better chance of boosting productivity through shorter commutes.

The local economic development field has had a rough go of it lately.

Charged with recruiting new businesses and supporting existing ones, economic development practitioners could only do so much in the face of a crippling pandemic. But their tactics have been under increasing scrutiny for years, especially in the wake of high-profile debacles like the Foxconn deal to bring a $10 billion tech manufacturer to Wisconsin and the multi-city bidding war over Amazon’s “HQ2” hub, which ended with the company pulling out of New York City after furious local opposition.

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