In the street language of economic development strategies, buffalo hunting means looking far and wide for a company that will move its operations to a new location. Gardening on the other hand is the economic development strategy of cultivating local companies to grow. Both are useful tools and when thinking about retirees households as economic development engines.
How valuable is your current retiree population? The following is an example of a means of estimating the value of retaining a retiree population. The example is taken from a case in Georgia. It is based on the market area pull of a micropolitian community, of which the estimated population in 2006 was slightly less than 50,000. The community is the market center for a ten county rural area in central Georgia.
In the street language of economic development strategies, buffalo hunting means looking far and wide for a company that will move its operations to a new location. Gardening on the other hand is the economic development strategy of cultivating local companies to grow. Both are useful tools and when thinking about retirees households as economic development engines.
How valuable is your current retiree population? The following is an example of a means of estimating the value of retaining a retiree population. The example is taken from a case in Georgia. It is based on the market area pull of a micropolitian community, of which the estimated population in 2006 was slightly less than 50,000. The community is the market center for a ten county rural area in central Georgia.