среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

City to City

Allen Joines was explaining--sort of--just how it came to be that 40 business and civic leaders from Greater Springfield were having breakfast at the Marriott in his city, Winston-Salem, N.C., listening to him talk about economic development, downtown revitalization, and generating business diversity.

"The closer you get to the guillotine, the more you start to focus," joked Joines, now in his ninth year as mayor of this city of 220,000, located about an hour from Charlotte.

'Focus' is a very general, perhaps overly simplistic way to describe what the leaders of Winston-Salem, or WS, as it's called, did when, about 20 years ago, the bottom simply fell out of an economy …

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