{"id":810,"date":"2008-10-14T03:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-10-14T08:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/economic-development-in-buffalo\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T11:25:22","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T16:25:22","slug":"economic-development-in-buffalo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/economic-development-in-buffalo\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development in Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Buffalo NY last week and facilitated a number of meetings for the City of Buffalo&#8217;s Department of Economic Development.  We did a tenant meeting at the historic Broadway Market.  We did a networking session for commercial development leaders.  We did another session on housing and that got <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buffalorising.com\/story\/action_meeting\">documented nicely by Buffalo Rising<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>Buffalo&#8217;s lost half its population in the last 30-40 years.  Lost lots of other things, too, as housing stock and jobs and tax revenues declined.  That said, there are many good things happening there.  And good people.  We&#8217;re looking for next opportunities for bringing them together.  We&#8217;re building a blogsite to support that togethering, as well.  I&#8217;ll post that link when the site&#8217;s ready.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invitingbuffalo.com\">InvitingBuffalo.com<\/a> is now up and running, with reports from our first three meetings.  Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.invitingbuffalo.com\/blog\/?p=78\">report from the largest of the meetings<\/a>, with a video of the closing circle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in Buffalo NY last week and facilitated a number of meetings for the City of Buffalo&#8217;s Department of Economic Development. We did a tenant meeting at the historic Broadway Market. We did a networking session for commercial development leaders. We did another session on housing and that got documented nicely by Buffalo Rising. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/10\/14\/economic-development-in-buffalo\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Economic Development in Buffalo&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-care","category-conference-reports","category-inviting-leadership","category-open-space-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelherman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}