What Folks Are Saying
What some of our first partners have said:
"This is a great roadmap for the essentials for bench-marking our city's economic development policy."
Jay Ash, City Manager, Chelsea, MA
"I'm using this as a guidebook for re-tooling our development process."
Mayor Charles Ryan, Springfield, MA
"Any tool that will help us grow is beneficial, but I like the fact that this effort includes state involvement."
Steven Magoon, Chief Administrative Officer, Gloucester, MA
"We have a new administration coming in, so it will be really helpful to be able to take all of this information we've rounded up for the self-assessment and hand it over to them."
Steven Magoon, Chief Administrative Officer, Gloucester, MA
"I'm relatively new to this job, so I found that the self-assessment tool was a good way to get to know the city up and down. It was very helpful from that perspective."
Nathan Jones, City Planner, Peabody, MA
"As a result of this effort, we're going to start keeping an active roster of properties and available space."
Nathan Jones, City Planner, Peabody, MA
"It [taking the self-assessment] was a good learning experience for the employees in this town."
Anthony Fields, Planning Director, Burlington, MA
"We plan to hire a consultant [to help with development for the town], so the results from the self assessment will be good baseline data to share with the consultant."
Anthony Fields, Planning Director, Burlington, MA
"As a new employee, I found this was a good exercise in getting to know the city, as it forced me to contact different departments, and helped me to get to know some of them."
Amy Lash, Associate Planner, Salem, MA
"We want the mayor to use this data [from the self-assessment] as a selling tool to get firms to come to our town....I think there's real value in being able to hand this information to a firm that might be interested in our town."
Steve Costello, Town Planner, Norwood, MA
"It's been a great exercise for Norwood and we're just beginning to explore what changes we can make a result."
Steve Costello, Town Planner, Norwood, MA
