Investment Archive Update on New Economy Town investment initiative: A few years ago I assisted in the founding of an investment More + Investing in infill: So what can the private sector do to invest in infill neighorhoods More + Investing in ‘Entrepreneur Villages: The Conflict: Visionary municipalities have an overriding interest in improving their quality More + Investing in the CoolTown ‘resort: Resort: A place frequented by people for relaxation or recreation Recreation: Refreshment More + Investing in local retail: If you’ve been tracking the local vs. national retail economic impact numbers, More + The CoolTown Program: A great vision doesn’t really matter if it can’t be implemented. Implementation More + Investing in ‘people places’ over parking: So what does it take to build a place where people quickly More + Investing in comeback cities: While the San Franciscos, Austins and Iowa City’s continue to prosper on More + Investing in the large-scale workplace: While much of the focus in CoolTowns is in providing workplaces for More + Investing in the Gen X Town: How do you do it without busting the Gen X piggy bank? More + Investing in a town with invisible technology: Fiber optics: There are currently about a hundred communities (older listing) that More + Investing in Experience Towns: Using the Experience Town steps, here’s how an investment group looks to More + Investing in third places: Progressive investors are hard at work to provide next generation communities where More + Investing in a local economy: Here’s where CoolTown-oriented institutional investors are putting their capital to create sustainable More + Investing in cool places to eat: So what kind of restaurants will the ultimate CoolTown have? That’s like More + Investing in a sense of security in a CoolTown: The most effective sense of security comes in being around people you More + Investing in a healthy town: Here are the health-oriented town features that investors are implementing in the More + Investing in Community: For regular blog viewers, you may notice that I end the weekly More + Show me the money!: The key obstacle to building these towns is NOT financing. At least, More + 12