Restoring Prosperity
The Greater Ohio Policy Center Blog
Each month, we feature an Ohio Legacy City on our #GOPCThread series, #OHCommunitySpotlight. This month, we spotlight Central Ohio’s Marion, which this year marks its bicentennial. A former manufacturing hub and hometown of the 29th President of the United States, Marion is today a city on the move!
When planning how to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Euclid prioritized helping local families build wealth through businesses and supporting a thriving downtown. The City committed to implementing a twofold strategy: promote economic revitalization and inclusive outcomes by supporting local, Black- and Brown-owned, small-scale manufacturing businesses to contribute to “more energy and commerce to downtown”.
Bus rapid transit, or BRT, is a bus-based public transport system designed to have better capacity and reliability than a conventional bus system. Standard BRT systems include roadways that are dedicated to buses and give priority to buses at intersections where buses may interact with other traffic.
Last week, Smart Growth America (SGA) hosted a webinar as part of their ongoing series about equitable development. This webinar focused on brownfields and their redevelopment. GOPC was able to participate in this webinar and gain insight on a range is issues, including environmental justice and equity related to brownfield cleanup and reuse policy and practices.
