Growth is a good factor. Right here in Tallahassee, we’re a rising group that has unbelievable potential. Within the final decade, our group has laid the inspiration to grow to be one in every of America’s finest mid-sized cities. Don’t imagine me? Go to locations like Cascades Park, Gaines Avenue, Mahan Drive, Thomasville Street, or South Monroe Avenue and see for your self. The proof is plentiful. The brand new model of Tallahassee is being constructed proper earlier than our eyes and it’s about time we inform the world how nice it is going to be.
Earlier this week, throughout our Chamber’s Develop Enterprise Committee assembly, Assistant Metropolis Supervisor Wayne Tedder supplied a presentation on the staggering quantity of optimistic development occurring in Tallahassee at present. Between investments in our Airport, new Downtown mixed-use initiatives, increasing neighborhoods, an enhanced transportation community, and world-class park enhancements Tallahassee is displaying different cities our dimension the way to reinvent whereas driving down the quick lane.
This is the kind of development that pulls alternative. It serves as an inviting siren – calling to each entrepreneurs and folks in search of to construct a secure life. With growth comes pleasure and bragging rights. Each of that are essential for corporations making an attempt to retain expertise. Daily, Tallahassee is turning into a extra extensively marketable group and someplace that is effectively suited to the brand new economic system.
The pandemic that has seemingly settled in over our lives has acted as a societal accelerant. That implies that developments, each good and dangerous, are coming to a head quicker than ever earlier than. One of these macro developments in our nation is the migration of millennials out of the dense city metropolis and in direction of extra mid-sized and small cities. As household constructing and room to breathe grow to be extra engaging than cramped flats and lengthy commutes, places like Tallahassee are well-positioned to succeed.
If we’re to capitalize on that chance, there might be little question about what our intentions are as a group. If we put a cease to development, as some might need it, then we would simply miss our second. That is one thing we merely can’t enable.
Right here on the Chamber, our mission is rooted within the perception that development is good. Growth means jobs and that is what offers a path to prosperity. Those that oppose development should settle for that the alternative is true for his or her relentless insistence on preserving the established order. Fortuitously, regardless of some opposition to the evolution of our group, Tallahassee stays on observe to grow to be a place that folks wish to transfer to, stay a part of, and put money into.
For individuals who could not perceive the idea of the Chamber’s development is a good mindset, allow us to present a easier and extra direct clarification. Communities that select not to develop are self-selecting their demise. We on the Chamber fall on the opposite facet of that spectrum. Our members, volunteer leaders, and employees are of the idea that a rising tide lifts all ships. If we’re to realize a future that works for everybody, it should be constructed upon a rising economic system. Now we have a probability to realize that actuality, however it is going to take community-wide engagement to see it by way of.
To imagine in development is to imagine in a higher Tallahassee. Regardless of the challenges of our period, we nonetheless have the wind in our sails and the momentum we’ve created right here continues to propel us. By our work, we see this reality day-after-day. The Chamber is a place for many who wish to enhance upon the group we love and the one approach to enhance is to develop. For those who really feel the identical, then we hope you’ll assist unfold that message to others. It’s time to speak in regards to the good facet of development.
