Ensure workforce is skilled to fuel city's key industries, says urban development expert

What do cities — and the businesses that make them up — need to do to power the creativity economy? An economic and urban development expert has the answers.

  • By Grier Ferguson
  • | 6:00 a.m. July 6, 2018
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Lori Sax. Steven Pedigo is the director of research and advising for the Creative Class Group.
Lori Sax. Steven Pedigo is the director of research and advising for the Creative Class Group.
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“The future economy will be driven by the rise of the creative economy.”

That’s one key message Steven Pedigo told attendees when he visited Sarasota recently to speak at the State of Talent Conference hosted by CareerSource Suncoast.

 

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