How universities affect regional prosperity
What promises to be an interesting discussion organized by the Urban Land Institute is scheduled for this month at the Missouri History Museum in Forest Park.
The topic: The role of the university in the region’s prosperity.
St. Louis University President Lawrence Biondi, SIU Edwardsville Chancellor Vaughn Vandegrift, University of Missouri-St. Louis Chancellor Thomas George and Washington University Executive Vice Chancellor Henry Webber are scheduled to take part.
Joe Cortright, president and principal economist for Impresa, a regional economic consulting firm based in Portland, will be the keynote speaker. KMOX’s Charlie Brennan will be the moderator. The two-hour event begins at 4 p.m. Nov. 17.
More information is available here, where online registration for the event may be completed.
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The Urban Land Institute was paid to send a panel to St. LOuis
in 1998 to tell us we were a small town….and to gut Kiel Opera House
to protect the Fox.
ULI St. Louis area member/companies..or district..also shilled hard for the phony Ballpark Village deal.
These are agents and perveyors of destruction and deception.
Charlie..pull out of this right now.
ULI should be run out of town and told to not come back. EVER.
We dont need them to tell us what area universities have done for or to St. Louis. Our failed downtown and our failed convention hotel…….speak volumes.
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Broken record. Broken record. Broken record.
Ed Golterman ,you need to seek help for obssessive compulsive disorder!! Your repetition is quite annoying!
Have you experienced the Urban Land Institute?
Mr. Golterman, I’ve had plenty of experience with the ULI over a thrty-five year commercial real estate career. While they tend to be more academic than pragmatic, and are wrong about as often as the rest of the industry, they’re worth listening to, albeit more for their research than for their conclusions.
If you doubt what universities do for cities, look around the Midwest. Towns and cities with universities comprising a significant component of their economy have weathered this recession far better than their university-free counterparts–by a lot. Not just St. Louis–look at Evansville and Terre Haute, Indiana, and Columbia, Missouri.