More on the creative sector

I'd argue that the impact of the Gateway Community Development Corporation in the Gateway Arts District in Prince George's County is more comparable to the discussion of the arts-creative industries adaptive-reuse project of the Bird's Custard Factory in Birmingham, UK, which provides space to 350 artists-organizations, who in turn employ 800 people in total. See "Sheltering the Creative Mind," from the Ottawa Citizen, describing the discussion at an international conference on the creative economy held there last week.

Also see the sad story from the Detroit Free Press, "Detroit group to woo workers in creative jobs." It's sad because the region has plenty of empty factories capable of seeding innovation. But the "innovation ecology" in the region is not favorable, as people tend to be focused on large vertically integrated industrial organizations, because the automobile industry has so dominated that region over the past 100 years.)