EPISODE #3: Saving Our Main Streets
The Best Cities Podcast
As the pandemic grinds on, the future of Main Streets and commercial neighborhoods—and the restaurants, bars and shops that bring them to life—is in peril. What can cities do? Veronica Briseño, Economic Development Director at the City of Austin, Texas, and Kimberly Branam, Executive Director at Prosper Portland, in Portland, Oregon, have answers.
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EPISODE #2: Tulsa Remote
The Best Cities Podcast
Resonance President Chris Fair and VP, Strategy & Economic Development, Steven Pedigo speak with Aaron Bolzle, executive director of Tulsa Remote and Ben Stewart, senior program officer at the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
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EPISODE #1: Welcome to the Best Cities Podcast
The Best Cities Podcast
The Best Cities podcast explores the stories, people and strategies behind the worlds’ top-performing cities—places that are vibrant, prosperous and coveted by investors, visitors and talent, and loved by their residents.
info_outlineWelcome to the Best Cities podcast, where we explore the stories, people and strategies behind the worlds’ top-performing cities—places that are vibrant, prosperous and coveted by investors, visitors and talent, and loved by residents.
Workers from all over the U.S. are jumping on Zoom and similar platforms to work remotely amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Cities from all over the world are having to manage this new normal. But there's one city that's been at the forefront of this: Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tulsa with its Tulsa Remote program, has used remote work as a way to attract and retain the creative class in the city.
The program is a one-year program that offers a $10,000 grant and additional benefits to remote workers who've moved to Tulsa to engage in the community, build their enterprise and offer something to the quality of place of the community.
In this episode, Resonance President Chris Fair and VP, Strategy & Economic Development, Steven Pedigo speak with Aaron Bolzle, executive director of Tulsa Remote and Ben Stewart, Senior Program Officer at the George Kaiser Family Foundation.
Join us for a conversation about the program and what talent attraction and talent retention lessons can be learned for other cities.
LEARN MORE:
Tulsa Remote | TulsaRemote.com
The George Kaiser Family Foundation | GKFF.org
Keep up with the program by following #TulsaRemote
Music: Sunrise Drive courtesy of Purple-Planet.com