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Today's Fresh Blogs...| Parking in Phila vs. Phoenix |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 11:09 am |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| Courtesywww.motorauthority.com Forget that trivial news about Phoenix vaulting over Philadelphia as 5th-most populous city. Here's a ranking that actually matters: Colliers International's latest June survey of downtown parking rates in 61 cities worldwide has found that Phoenix is one-eighth as expensive as Center City Philly. And Philadelphia |
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| Think Globally, Pitch Locally |
| Published: September 4, 2007, 2:30 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy, 977 |
| Rendell's second "Pennsylvania International Week," a once-a-year chance for local companies to get exporting advice and pitch wares to a roving band of foreign tade representatives without leaving home, actually runs for two weeks this year. Perhaps it should be renamed the "Pennsylvania International Fortnight" to be truly international. (Yes, |
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| Philly CEOs bearish on economy |
| Published: September 6, 2007, 1:11 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| confidence in the national economy in the third quarter has dipped along with CEOs nationwide, and some plan to put investments "on hold" to brace for a slowdown. The survey (Download the press release) found that 115 regional chief executives of small- and mid-sized businesses who responded to the survey had a Confidence Index of 81.5 |
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| Head in the Sand, Part II |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 4:49 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy, 1206, 1042 |
| Chamber's primary mission is regional economic development. Still, even more important than the fate of our economy is the future of Greater Philadelphia and in particular, Philadelphia's families. As a parent, I share in the sadness of the victims' loved ones at the senseless violence that we are enduring. How to diminish if not eliminate this |
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| Lotsa Pizza |
| Published: September 17, 2007, 4:39 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| per year per student, to the regional economy. (Parents, can you imagine?!! The answer, probably and painfully, is yes. Think about the book bill alone!) This statistic comes from Select Greater Philadelphia, which today released a study showing how higher education impacts the greater region's economy. Select Greater Philadelphia is an |
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| What do Pa. companies really expect? |
| Published: September 19, 2007, 1:20 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| of a "dramatically improving economy." But in fact, the state agency's comparable survey a year ago found slightly more companies projecting 12-month growth. Sure, it was just one percentage-point more last year. And three-quarters is still a strong rate, no matter what. But we wonder if these types of breathless proclamations of improvement |
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| What Pa. companies expect, Part II |
| Published: September 20, 2007, 12:22 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| We asked and the DCED answered, and here is the reply: Tom, Click the link below and go to the 3rd link down: BREP Report 2007. This should have information from the previous years. http://www.newpa.com/search.aspx?keywords=brep Let me know if you have any other questions. Thanks, The link goes to list of press releases, where |
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| Make jobs, not gun laws |
| Published: October 1, 2007, 12:13 am |
| Tags: Politics Taxes, Regional Economy |
| By a hefty margin, PhillyInc poll respondents say Philadelphia businesses have no particular responsibility to help to combat the city's worsening gun and violence problem. At least that's what they said in our unscientific and anecodotal, though perhaps indicative, online poll. We asked: "Do local businesses and/or executives have a |
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| Re-Innovation |
| Published: October 3, 2007, 1:45 pm |
| Tags: Regional Economy, Small Biz Entrepreneurs, Venture Capital Tech, 1328 |
| the local entrepreneurial economy and which probably has had more than its share of ups and downs, said today it has unveiled a new Web site. Take a look at www.innovationphiladelphia.org and give it a review. Wonder why George Burrell couldn't wait to leave before it unveiling |
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| Changing of guard begins with David L. Cohen |
| Published: October 5, 2007, 12:52 pm |
| Tags: Politics Taxes, Regional Economy |
| Marcia Gelbart at The Inquirer reports today on something akin to a great sign of relief that David L. Cohen has agreed to become the next chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce a year from now. She quotes outgoing chairman Joe Frick telling a chamber conference today that Cohen's return to a civic role and Michael Nutter's |
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| Q&A: Philly guns and business |
| Published: October 15, 2007, 12:14 am |
| Tags: Politics Taxes, Regional Economy, 1206, 1541 |
| spent a lot of time on the economy-building front -- just the sheer number of jobs and paychecks provided in this region that mean stability amounts to the billions. Tens of billions of dollars. I can tell you the business community's zeal to market the region and create C.J.P. is demonstrated by the support for Select Greater Philadelphia -- |
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| Corridor cash |
| Published: October 17, 2007, 12:10 am |
| Tags: Politics Taxes, Regional Economy |
| Philadelphia has snagged $60 million in federal tax credits for development projects along commercial corridors citywide. So crows Mayor John Street and the Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp., which competed against other places for the funds. Give the city credit for pursuing the money, although its publicity was a week late and bit |
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| Does Rendell gamble too much on job incentives? |
| Published: October 29, 2007, 10:32 am |
| Tags: Regional Economy, 977 |
| The AP's Marc Levy has done a solid investigation of the Rendell administration's aggressive policy of granting tax incentives to companies to create jobs in Pennsylvania. It says that out of 56 businesses that were awarded $44 million in incentives in 2003-2004, "only 25 had hired the number of workers they had promised to hire." (Chart is here, |
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| Ducks take over in Camden |
| Published: December 1, 2007, 10:25 am |
| Tags: Art Culture Biz, Regional Economy, 2230, 2228 |
| Yaromir Steiner, chief executive officer of the private Ohio-based firm that has managed the Camden Adventure Aquarium for several years, told us some interesting things last week after his Steiner+Associates announced a state-approved deal to hand off most - but not all - of its N.J. aquarium-management subsidiary to Herschend Family |
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| Millionaires minutiae |
| Published: December 24, 2007, 11:37 am |
| Tags: Regional Economy |
| A little background re millionaire households: One commenter wonders if there was an effect from the changing housing market. First, the Claritas data are from 2006, long before the housing market tanked. Second, it says its calculation of income producing assets (IPA) does not include home equity. Third, we track this trend based strictly on the |
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