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Smart
Growth Business Partnership
Drawing
from the experiences of leaders across a variety of business sectors,
including development, banking, transportation, and real estate,
among others, the Smart Growth Business Partnership seeks to enhance
national dialogue on the harmful impacts of sprawl, the multiple
environmental and economic benefits of smart growth practices, and
various innovative strategies businesses can take to promote both
economic development and sustainable communities.
Smart growth is smart business. Business leaders recognize that
quality of life directly affects economic prosperity, and that sprawl
threatens quality of life. In addition, business leaders recognize
that sprawl threatens the health of central cities, and cities are
critical to the health of the metropolitan region. Today, businesses
engaged in smart growth are doing so to gain a competitive advantage,
maximize shareholder value, and tap unmet demand for goods and services.
For instance, businesses such as Starbucks and Kinko’s are
looking for the next revitalizing neighborhood, hoping to find the
ideal location and ride the wave of economic growth.
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To
download the report, click
here
(876KB PDF)
To
read the press release click
here (112KB
PDF)
?Smart Growth
is Smart Business?
A new groundbreaking report called ?Smart
Growth is Smart Business? profiles how business leaders
are supporting smart growth policies and projects, and puts
forth five key smart growth business actions. This new report
profiles 17 business groups that are profiting while revitalizing
communities and improving livability across the nation. Quality
of life, reinvestment in established communities, business
involvement in regional growth management, and long-term investments
in smart growth projects directly affects the bottom line.
Many companies and whole new business sectors are now engaged
in smart growth. Business leaders are reaping the returns
of smart growth strategies. And, national leaders from government,
nonprofits, and the private sector continue to tout the opportunities
and benefits of smart growth. This ?Smart Growth is
Smart Business? report shows how building better communities
boosts the bottom line.
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