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Ed Morrison · More good news from Youngstown
July 22nd, 2008
From a Jim Cossler e-mail:
Another national shout out for the exciting and unique managed technology cluster being built by the Youngstown Business Incubator.
This from the national public policy organization PolicyLink in its soon to be released report, To Be Strong Again: Renewing the Promise in Smaller Industrial Cities :
“The Youngstown Business Incubator, which has turned the city into a hot spot for business-to-business software development, is creating jobs and reversing the ‘brain drain’. Against all odds, YBI has made Youngstown the place to be for B2B software developers.”
When so many said we couldn’t, we did. Come see for yourself.
You can review the report in its entirety here.
July 22nd, 2008 at 9:57 pm
I was out there today. The downtown block in which the incubator sits is transformed from a Skid Row to an emerging gentrification project. The companies in the incubator provide 350 high-paying jobs. Lead company Turning Technologies ships its products internationally, and sells in China.
July 25th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
Jonathan,
The Youngstown Business Incubator is an impressive economic development initiative. I hope you had a chance to talk with Jim Cossler and learn more about how he is building networks among companies within the greater.
The buzz about Youngstown is building. I was in a meeting in Kokomo yesterday at their incubator, Inventrek.
An official from the Department of Labor in Chicago was at our meeting, and he mentioned that he was traveling to Youngstown to learn more about how the city is repositioning itself.
Youngstown has a lot of lessons to teach communities like Kokomo, Anderson, Flint, and a number of other mid-size industrial cities throughout the Great Lakes.