January 05, 2009
At the Gateway Cities Project's first community-information session in Springfield last October, UMass Dartmouth and MassINC unveiled the initial stages of their plan. Called simply the "Economic Growth Initiative," the endeavor has a number of stated goals, which were outlined for those in attendance.
That night, Ed Lambert, director of the Urban Initiative, and John Schneider, executive vice president of MassINC, painted with broad brushstrokes the forthcoming strategy - the kind of generalized information to be expected from the first stages of a program with an expansive scope.