In our very first live podcast recording we sat down with author Ilana Preuss to discuss her new book “Recast Your City: How to Save Your Downtown with Small-Scale Manufacturing”. The book was released during the height of the Pandemic, but the problems we saw with shrinking retail, empty storefronts, and closing businesses was a long time coming. In this episode Preuss explains why the old model of economic development did not work and how small-scale manufacturing can support a new, more equitable approach. Thriving economies result from creating great places. Building great places results from a bottom up approach that reaches out to local entrepreneurs already in your community making products and taking risks. 

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·       Recast City

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