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GRIP Urban Exchange 3: Don Ness and Karen Freeman-Wilson
GRIP Urban Exchange series part 3, featuring Duluth, Minn. Mayor Don Ness and Gary, Ind. Mayor Karen Freeman-Wilson.
2012 Plan for Prosperity: Innovative Solutions for the New Normal
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  • Jan 12, 2012
To read MPC's 2012 Plan for Prosperity, download the file. The following is MPC President MarySue Barrett's introductory letter. Sometimes, things aren’t what they seem. For decades, the United States enjoyed what appeared to be boundless economic expansion. Consumers spent and borrowed…
GRIP Urban Exchange Series, Part 2 Featuring Audrey Russo, President & CEO, Pittsburgh Technology Council
The second event in the GRIP Urban Exchange series featured keynote speaker Audrey Russo, president and CEO of the Pittsburgh Technology Council. The panel discussion was moderated by Don Babcock, director of economic development for NIPSCO; and featured Linda Woloshansky, president and CEO of…
Suburban Housing Collaboratives: a Case for Interjurisdictional Collaboration
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  • Nov 8, 2011
Foreword by Metropolitan Planning Council, Metropolitan Mayors Caucus, and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning The November 2011 edition of ProfitWise News and Views, written by Susan Longworth and published by the Community Development and Policy Studies Division of the Federal Reserve Bank…
Implementing GO TO 2040: A Plan for Chicagoland's Future; We Have a Plan: Let’s Do It
  • Audio
  • May 5, 2011
Listen to this April 27, 2011, roundtable, the third in the three-part series, “Implementing GO TO 2040: A Plan for Chicagoland’s Future,” co-sponsored by MPC and the Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning. The series explored how – in an ever-expanding world economy…
YNDC Youngstown Rising
  • Video
  • May 4, 2011
Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams shared this video, which explains the work of the Youngstown Neighborhood Development Corporation (YNDC), as part of his presentation at the final roundtable in MPC and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's series on implementing the GO TO 2040 plan.
Steel Valley Meltdown
  • Video
  • May 4, 2011
Youngstown Mayor Jay Williams shared this video on the past, present and future of Youngstown at the final roundtable in MPC and Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning's series on implementing the GO TO 2040 plan.
GRIP Phase I Report
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  • Apr 22, 2011
This report summarizes the first phase of the Gary and Region Investment Project, highlighting the notable speakers and participant feedback from the October 27, 2010 GRIP the Future launch event and the results from the community survey conducted both at the event and broadly through GRIP partners…
Keepers and Seekers: The Next Mayor's Priorities for a Prosperous Metropolitan Region
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  • Jan 31, 2011
MPC believes a healthy, prosperous region— and its core city—is competitive, equitable and sustainable. In the fall of 2010, we compiled a list of economic development, infrastructure and housing-related challenges the next mayor will face in achieving this goal. The following briefing…
Restoring Prosperity: Revitalizing America's Communities in Transition
  • Presentation
  • Nov 19, 2010
Presented by Kim Burnett, Senior Fellow & Consultant, The Brookings Institution, Oct. 27, 2010, at the "GRIP the Future" launch of the Gary and Region Investment Project in Gary, Ind. The presentation explains innovation, human capital, infrastructure, and quality places are key elements in…

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