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Smart Growth is Smart Business

Smart growth is smart business. Business leaders recognize that quality of life directly affects economic prosperity, and that sprawl threatens quality of life. In addition, business leaders recognize that sprawl threatens the health of central cities, and cities are critical to the health of the metropolitan region. Today, businesses engaged in smart growth are doing so to gain a competitive advantage, maximize shareholder value, and tap unmet demand for goods and services. For instance, businesses such as Starbucks and Kinko's are looking for the next revitalizing neighborhood, hoping to find the ideal location and ride the wave of economic growth.

Smart Growth is Smart Business is a groundbreaking report that profiles how business leaders are supporting smart growth policies and projects, and puts forth five key smart growth business actions. This new report profiles 17 business groups that are profiting while revitalizing communities and improving livability across the nation. Quality of life, reinvestment in established communities, business involvement in regional growth management, and long-term investments in smart growth projects directly affects the bottom line. Many companies and whole new business sectors are now engaged in smart growth. Business leaders are reaping the returns of smart growth strategies. And, national leaders from government, nonprofits, and the private sector continue to tout the opportunities and benefits of smart growth. Smart Growth is Smart Business shows how building better communities boosts the bottom line.