In the early 1990s, the East Lake neighborhood was one of Atlanta’s poorest. The East Lake Meadows housing project was the neighborhood’s epicenter of poverty and rampant crime. In 1995, local real estate developer, entrepreneur and philanthropist Tom Cousins  first proposed the idea of redeveloping East Lake Meadows into a mixed-use housing development. Read More

The clustering of like-minded entrepreneurs or complimentary businesses is not a new phenomenon. Read More

New York City. San Francisco. Boston. These are among the cities often cited as leaders in urban economic development. Read More

Here at ICIC, we often talk about industrial assets and the ways in which they can be repurposed for the benefit of urban economic development. Read More

The EB-5 Immigrant Investor program, initially launched in 1990 to use foreign direct investment to create jobs in high poverty and high unemployment urban and rural areas, has experienced a rapid uptick in applications over the past few years. Read More