U.S.-based BrookingsInst has established a new infrastructure planning and spending tool aimed at enhancing the place-making framework for spending decisions.
TRUFLIP99 CC 4.0 — A panellist at a recent Brookings Institution webinar stated that the Portland, Ore. region has a long history of collaboration to address challenges, a tradition that will be relied on as federal infrastructure money rolls in.
As explained by Brookings Metro senior fellow Adie Tomer, host of the webinar, the report stems from the realization that the massive injection of infrastructure spending on its way from the Joe Biden administration should be filtered through regional lenses. “Now, while those economic conditions are often framed through a national lens, and for really good reasons, each one of them actually touches every single city, town and metropolitan area in different ways,” said Tomer. “We know that places don’t have the same starting points, whether it comes to their industries, their collective expertise across their labour force, or the natural environment where they’re situated.
U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development Alejandra Castillo joined the webinar to offer support for the place-based approach. During the 18 months the EVA program was set up, Portland’s EVA helped create an Equitable Development Index, which advised on a future light rail investment and a region-wide ballot initiative.
Kansas City offers investors low costs, said Sheri Gonzales, director of KC Rising, but when the city is compared to others of similar size it is often outpaced economically because “their highs are higher.”
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