Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg: on Environment


Mike Pence: Regional Cities Initiative: enhance community appeal

The governor seemed to remain determined to be a friend to South Bend. Pence championed a visionary economic development effort called the Regional Cities Initiative, which helped change how we position our cities for growth.

The basic idea behind Regional Cities was that economic development is no longer just a game of luring factories--what some call "smokestack chasing"--from other locations, using tax incentives to essentially buy jobs. Instead, at a time when many people first choose where they want to live and then start looking for a job, it makes sense to recruit people, not just employers. The best way to do that is to enhance the appeal of the community, often called the 'quality of place,' and the initiatives focus was on supporting projects that would do just that.

Source: Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg, p.206-7 Feb 12, 2019

Pete Buttigieg: As mayor, installed "River Lights" outdoor art for $700,000

From the Jefferson Boulevard Bridge, you can see the man-made rapids in the river and the River Lights, a permanent legacy of our 2015 anniversary celebrations. We raised over $700,000 to have an artist install a dynamic light feature to illuminate the cascades of the river in sweeping and shifting colors. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 153 volunteered the labor to set up the lights. Like all good public art, it has a charismatic quality that invites people to come up close to it, and to mix with others not like them. On summer evenings you will see clusters of people, clearly from different neighborhoods and lifestyles, walking in the park overlooking the cascades among lighted towers that responded to motion with patterns matching the lights on the water below. The colors of the light sculpture make up a universal language; very different faces light up the same way, responding to the hues, when it surprises them with a burst of gold or pink.
Source: Shortest Way Home, by Pete Buttigieg, p.133-4 Feb 12, 2019

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