http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/04/more-caution-on-tech-park-spending Comments On: More caution on tech park spending by Max Brantley en-us Copyright 2013 Arkansas Times. All rights reserved. This RSS file is offered to individuals, Arkansas Times readers, and non-commercial organizations only. Any commercial websites wishing to use this RSS file, please contact Arkansas Times. robert@arktimes.com (Arkansas Times Webmaster) Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:00:01 -0500 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:15:00 -0500 Foundation http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Posted by couldn't be better]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:36:56 -0500 Arkansas Times Your post plus ES.

In my estimation:

Perfect Building + No Educated = FAIL
No Building + Perfect Educated = Success
Halfass Building + Some Educated = Some success

In other words spend efforts educating instead of building.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:41:39 -0500 Arkansas Times
Here's ONE thing . . . .

As long as The Rock and The Natural State are crippled by a well-deserved reputation for Backwoods Bigotry, as they've been for 179 years, what do you expect?

Look at Jacksonville. Look at that bridge!

Yet STILL . . . here's one CEO who WON'T locate a business there because of the anti-gay climate reflected in letters and op-eds in local papers.

http://www.advocate.com/business/2012/10/0…

The world's moved on.

What well-educated newcomer wants to be greeted by, "Where do you go to church?" every time they mix and mingle?
Posted by Norma Bates]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:35:38 -0500 Arkansas Times
An educational base, and an infrastructure base, seem mandatory to erect any superstructure.

I know one building in Louisville where they built the top floor first, jacked it up and built the next one under it, jacked them up and built the ground floor last--but that's the only example of that kind of building I've ever heard of.

But you're right--in my estimation: some of the initially-educated will have to leave to find appropriate employment, then perhaps come back--or else find some other means of support while waiting for the "appropriate" jobs to develop.

I just hope we can figure a way to get it off the ground and work our way up from 50th place in everything desirable.
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:05:50 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by radical centrist]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:15:01 -0500 Arkansas Times
NOBODY will move a family or establish a family in an area with high crime or failing schools.

Step 1
develope a strong school district, this will supply graduates to move onto higher education.

Step 2
When existing office space is filled after step 1, private businesses will build more.

Use the 22 million on schools, police and roads and parks.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:47:01 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by joanimal]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:43:15 -0500 Arkansas Times
1st step is to educate.

All educated city residents would benefit. Some would stay here, some would move off. But some that moved off would come back. Opportunity would lure back expats.

Either way there would be a mass of educated available to attract business.

Without being educated nothing would happen, other than some undeucated staying and eaking out some existance but other uneducated slinking off in search of something.

To surmise, with no pool of educated, no businesses would be lured, so an empty office building would remain so.
Posted by Citizen1]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:41:04 -0500 Arkansas Times
Never negotiate with criminals of this sort... and reject neoliberal s, their cons, no matter where they raise their ugly heads. If neoliberals were oncologists you would hear your doctor saying - We need more tumors!
Posted by Eureka Springs]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:05:11 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by FullThrottle]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 11:00:15 -0500 Arkansas Times http://blog.guykawasaki.com/2006/06/how_to…
Posted by Inkling]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 10:26:42 -0500 Arkansas Times
OK. Suppose we have a lot of students earn appropriate degrees and become "qualified" for all of these high-paying jobs, or workers with training and experience. What do they do to survive while they're waiting for these new companies to come in and employ them?

Or does "deep local pool of skilled workers" suggest that there's a high level of unemployment among the skilled?

Otherwise, it seems to me that a new company would have to come in and hire the skilled workers away from the companies that are already employing them. Else, they have to move into the community where the jobs are "created." And if they have to come from somewhere else, what is the attraction or incentive for the companis to come here?

Just how does anyone "manage" to make all these things fall into place appropriately? It seems to me we have a chicken-and-egg situation here. Companies want to go where there's a "deep pool of skilled workers," but skilled workers aren't going to stay around where there's no company to hire them. How do we get this thing off the ground?
Posted by SkyPilot]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:29:37 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Claude Bahls]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 09:12:53 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by ArgentaNuts]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:52:46 -0500 Arkansas Times
Verla, these arguments have been made in City Hall for about 50 years. They fall on deaf ears. It's so much easier to simply hand the tax dollars out at LRCC and LRCofC. A growing city would increase competition and raise labor costs. No good.
Posted by FullThrottle]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 08:33:23 -0500 Arkansas Times
If you believe that the purpose of the scheme is to create long-term benefits for the many as opposed to short-term profits for the few, Max has a steel mill in Alabama that he'd like you to visit.
Posted by Silverback66]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:29:46 -0500 Arkansas Times Posted by Verla Sweere]]> Thu, 04 Oct 2012 07:15:34 -0500 Arkansas Times