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There was a podcast I listened to recently about a new community trying to take hold on the outskirts of DT Las Vegas. Catering to the creative class and I believe they interviewed Richard. The developer was trying to prime the pump with a bunch of seed $$.
The kicker was, and something I agreed with, was someone who summed it up like this:
In one incubator stall you have the soy candle maker, and next to him you have the organic cotton weaver, and next to her you have the social media app developer and so on and so on. All people who do zero business with each other.
He's like most urban planners in that they know just a trifle about "the dismal science" which is coincidentally just enough to make them dangerous. He was quite silly in not seeing that returning the creative class to cities would make them more desirable and drive up rents and valuations of those areas. Well at least he didn't advocate for rent control and inclusionary zoning like the truly clueless have done.
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