Congrats to everybody that worked on the Bioscience campaign. I believe that these initiatives are going to benefit this community for many years to come. I also believe that the District will need to very prudent in how they use this authority that was so narrowly given to it by the voters. A 1.6% spread between those for and against is too close for comfort. Hopefully some of the Nays can be won over in the future.
I had an interesting conversation with an associate concerning economic development. The particular topic was whether or not retail development should be a part of the mission of our local economic development efforts. There are some folks in town that think that retail development is not as important as industrial development. There was one comment made in particluar that really hit the nail on the head… “I don’t care if it wears a skirt, wears pants or dresses in drag…if it’s creating wealth and jobs then it’s economic development.” I couldn’t have said it any better.