Building Communities

Building Communities offers American communities a new, expeditious, and comprehensive approach to envision and enact their future. Building Communities offers 25 executable economic development strategies designed to improve the economic condition of communities and to improve the overall quality of life. Based upon the concept of comparative advantage, community leaders assess their relative strengths and weaknesses with respect to 85 key success factors, and a prioritized list of up to 25 strategies emerges based upon the viability of the strategy for each community. In order to jump-start the implementation phase, Building Communities then offers dozens of recommended action steps tailored to each strategy. Problems are solved. Solutions are found. Indeed, communities immediately have an objective game plan to enact their desired future.