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Best College Towns: Chapel Hill NC: What makes Chapel Hill one of the most desired college towns for

Best College Towns: Ann Arbor MI: Keys to Ann Arbor’s popularity with the University of Michigan’s 41K students:

Best College Towns: Athens GA: What makes Athens (University of Georgia – UGA) such a great college

Wayne State University announces CoolTown plans: Wayne State University announces CoolTown plans Wayne State University press release: Wayne

Evidence piling up for health and CoolTowns: If anecdotal evidence isn’t enough for you (ever notice the weight difference

“Pistons a model worth duplicating”: Houston Chronicle: Pistons a model worth duplicating Click here to learn what

WSJ: Cities Launch Programs To Lure College Graduates: The Wall Street Journal today featured the article Cities Launch Programs To

CoolTowns get green light in Georgia and Detroit!: It’s slowly starting to happen – people are gradually getting the opportunity

CoolTown on the radio: Here’s a radio short with CoolTown Studios represented for a few seconds

How popular is dining out?: Quite a bit according to our CoolTown poll. The statistics seem to

Why do CoolTowns have so many good-looking people?: Because they’re fit! CoolTowns are designed for walking. A new study says

Fast food = McMansions: McMansions refer to those cookie cutter neighborhoods of big homes that look

Merging the “EDS” with a CoolTown: So what happens when the entrepreneurial development system (EDS) is integrated into

An “EDS” entrepreneurial community in action: There’s no better way to understand a concept than to see it

The Entrepreneurial League System: It’s all about building relationships. Building a place for creative entrepreneurial people

Entrepreneurs can learn a lot from minor league baseball: Cool towns focus on job growth through home-grown companies. Thankfully, that’s become

Upper Rock District Plan #2: Here’s the other master plan proposal for the Upper Rock District. While

Upper Rock District Plan #1: The newly planned Upper Rock District, covered in the blog this week,

Charrette result: Upper Rock District: Here’s the result of the ‘entrepreneurial village’ charrette being covered since the

Charrette results from tonight to be posted. This week’s poll up!: Stay tuned to see the results of the week-long charrette to design

Designing an entrepreneurial village in a week: Welcome to the cool way to plan a town – the charrette

Poll: Which food venue is missing in your neighborhood?: We all have our favorite eating establishment, the place where we depend

Up-ending the real estate industry – really!: The reason why over 90% of new homes are built as sprawl

More third places – coffee shops: Third places are easy to remember and return to, but very difficult






