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Aaron N. Gruen of Gruen Gruen + Associates shares his 2025 Economic and Real Estate Outlook with ED Now.

As part of our EDA Atlanta region grant, IEDC created a workforce housing strategies primer for a series of workshops developed in partnership with the Eastern Carolina Council, a nine-county regional economic development district in North Carolina. Learn about missing middle housing and availability, affordability, and funding solutions, and explore case studies from communities of all sizes.

Former IEDC board chair and veteran economic development executive Tom Kucharski, CEcD, HLM, has served as the architect behind major regional transformations. Kucharski is a quoted economic development expert in national publications such as The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Newsweek. In this article, he offers insights and advice for economic developers serving today and into the future.

IEDC's Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) program recognizes organizational excellence in the areas of internal and external operations, structures, and procedures. This series profiles recently accredited AEDOs, putting some of economic development's highest-performing organizations in the spotlight. This edition: Invest Newark (N.J.).

Aaron N. Gruen of Gruen Gruen + Associates shares his 2024 Economic and Real Estate Outlook with ED Now.

IEDC's Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) program recognizes organizational excellence in the areas of internal and external operations, structures, and procedures. This series profiles recently accredited AEDOs, putting some of economic development's highest-performing organizations in the spotlight. This edition: City of Miramar (Fla.) Economic Development and Housing Department.

Unaffordable for-sale single-family housing is no longer a problem confined to coastal urban markets. With homebuying out of reach for about one-third of the U.S. population, cities should encourage more apartment development, which will increase needed housing supply and do well for long-term investors.

Wells Fargo’s new 22-acre campus in Irving, Texas, represents a $455-million capital investment in the state’s economy and furthers Irving–Las Colinas—part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex—as a top choice for growth. Located on reclaimed land on the north shore of Lake Carolyn in Irving’s Las Colinas Urban Center, the transit-oriented development is the region’s second largest new-build office project and incorporates two 10-story, 400,000-square-foot buildings. The new campus will feature cutting-edge design and prioritizes Wells Fargo’s commitments to sustainability as the bank’s first net positive property, and to employee wellness with a fitness center, gardens, access to ...