Case Study

The NADO Research Foundation has released the latest installment of its case study series, Lessons from the Storm: Case Studies on Economic Recovery and Resilience. The series highlights how regional development organizations have used 2008 ...

The city of Akron, Ohio had to restore its economic base and rebuild the city’s public image with the disappearance of over 20,000 jobs from the “rubber capital of the world” in a relatively short period of time. Learn about the ...

Located 90 miles from three metro areas: Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Wichita, Ponca City was once a small, one-company town with the headquarters of Conoco Oil Company. In the 1990s, the city was forced to re-invent itself once the area was impacted ...

After the devastating Northridge earthquake in 1994 which exacerbated economic conditions in the San Fernando Valley, local officials decided to establish a new economic development alliance in the form of a public-private partnership to pursue ...