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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.

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

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 ...

Communities, developers, and real estate asset managers will continue to need to reimagine and reinvent shopping malls into mixed-use redevelopments. The availability of large amounts of land, building space, parking capacity, and typically superior access to roadway connections, provides the physical resources to transform malls from predominantly single-use spaces to a dramatically more varied mix of uses.

Aaron N. Gruen of Gruen Gruen + Associates—an urban economics, market research, housing and land use policy, and pre-development services firm—shares his annual economic and real estate outlook with ED Now.

IEDC recently held a webinar titled “Tale from the Trenches: Hurricane Recovery.” The webinar featured two economic developers whose communities have been impacted by hurricanes in recent years. The discussion covered hurricane preparedness for economic developers in vulnerable communities, how EDOs can support businesses post-disaster, and a timeline of the recovery process. EDOs serving communities vulnerable to hurricanes must plan to quickly disburse loans to local businesses post-disaster, said Chuck Wemple, executive director of the Houston-Galveston Area Council. Wemple stressed that an EDO’s highest priority after a hurricane should be quickly getting funds to businesses for response and recovery, even if only a ...