DT #685 How Communities Can Turn Their Assets into Competitive Advantages
Develop This: Economic and Community Development

DT #685 How Communities Can Turn Their Assets into Competitive Advantages

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 23, 202628 min

How can communities identify their greatest strengths and turn them into a competitive advantage? In this episode of Develop This!, Dennis Fraise sits down with Jeanette Goldsmith, President of Strategic Development Group, to discuss how communities can build a smarter asset strategy that attracts investment and supports long-term economic growth. Jeanette explains that successful economic development goes beyond available land and infrastructure. Communities must recognize both their tangible and intangible assets—from workforce and leadership to partnerships and organizational alignment—and understand how those strengths position them for future opportunities. A major focus of t...

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Welcome to Develop This, the number one podcast for economic and community development professionals with your host, Dennis Frasey. Today's Develop This episode is in partnership with the Site Selectors Guild. Welcome back to another edition of the Develop This podcast.

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Dennis and another great guest joining me today, that's Jeanette Goldsmith, the president of the Strategic Development Company. So Jeanette, welcome to Develop This. Thank you, Dennis. Nice to be with you.

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Yeah, I'm so excited you're joining me today. This is part of our ongoing series in collaboration with the Site Selectors Guild. Jeanette's part of the Guild and their members have come on to help educate economic developers. It's such an important partnership between the work that the site selectors do and the

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