Local Economic Development
Tourism Routt County’s top strength in economic development survey
Initial results from a Routt County economic development survey show strong support for local schools and health care facilities, indicating that quality of life remains a primary driver of regional business growth. The survey remains open online.
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Cities XL 2012 $39.96 Cities XL 2012 is the newest version of the popular PC city-building simulation, which allows you to build, develop and then connect huge cities. Cities XL 2012 allows you to become real urban planners, balancing economic & energy developments of your cities while managing transportation, housing, social services and recreational activities. Content is key to the new game, as Cities XL 2012 offers… |
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Detroit: A Biography $12.46 Detroit was established as a French settlement three-quarters of a century before the founding of this nation. A remote outpost built to protect trapping interests, it grew as agriculture expanded on the new frontier. Its industry took a great leap forward with the completion of the Erie Canal, which opened up the Great Lakes to the East Coast. Surrounded by untapped natural resources, Detroit tur… |
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Local Dollars, Local Sense: How to Shift Your Money from Wall Street to Main Street and Achieve Real Prosperity–A Community Resilience Guide $11.18 A Resilient Communities GuideAmericans’ long-term savings in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, pension funds, and life insurance funds total about $30 trillion. But not even 1 percent of these savings touch local small business-even though roughly half the jobs and the output in the private economy come from them. So, how can people increasingly concerned with the poor returns from Wall Street and the … |
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Nature’s Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West $10.99 Awarded the 1992 Bancroft Prize and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Award for Best Nonfiction Book of 1991.In this groundbreaking work, William Cronon gives us an environmental perspective on the history of nineteenth-century America. By exploring the ecological and economic changes that made Chicago America’s most dynamic city and the Great West its hinterland, Mr. Cronon opens a new window onto ou… |