Saving The Inner City Will Save The City

"The inner city has four assets that are key to metro economic development: a strategic central location that can lower transportation costs for industry, available land for expansion, a potential work force for a region that sometimes must import laborers, and an under-served market of consumers... Rather than seeing inner-city development as an issue of equity where government must reduce poverty, Porter said, it should be viewed as a business opportunity where the private sector takes the lead."