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There is something special about a summer concert. The anticipation starts long before you ever leave the house. You buy the tickets months in advance,

Summer changes how we move through places. Travel picks up. Hotels fill. Weekends become road trips, day trips, and last-minute getaways. Even if you’re staying

If the lack of affordable housing in your community is keeping you up at night, you’re in good company (subtext: for once, your sleep routine

Over the past several months, I’ve had the opportunity to participate in Leadership Essentials, a leadership development program through Loyola University. Through a combination of

Here’s the thing about post-event surveys: people actually take time out of their day to fill them out. That’s an act of goodwill, and you

If you’re like most economic development professionals, you’ve spent the last few weeks of December pondering the benchmarks you want to reach when you turn

Let’s be honest: economic development, as a term, sounds pretty technical (and often needs explanation). But strip away the jargon, and you know what economic

At the 2025 Main Street Maryland Conference, one topic came up in multiple sessions and conversations: the quiet disappearance of third places—and what that means

When we launched EDO Breakthrough in 2024, our mission was earnest: we wanted to put relatable, boots-on-the-ground economic developers front and center. We sought out
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Ask an economic developer, Main Street manager, tourism professional, or community leader what makes their community special, and you’ll likely hear about transformative projects, major
A Note From PPR: As their internships come to an end and they prepare to begin their senior years of college, we asked Ellen Haley
We spend our days trying to make communities better and brighter, and if there’s one thing we know for sure, it’s this: diverse businesses don’t
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