The Kitty and Michael Dukakis Center for Urban and Regional Policy (formerly known as CURP) has embarked upon an initiative to help cities, towns, and full service counties surmount the "deal breakers" within their control that have been working against their efforts to foster economic growth and opportunity...to enhance the power of local officials to affect positive change in policies and procedures and to better enable these communities to compete for critically needed private sector investment.
Guided by input from a broad group of public and private sector partners from the National Association of Industrial and Office Properties to the National League of Cities and the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives, our mission is to create a practical set of tools for local governments to better position themselves to attract industry, private investment, a sustainable tax base and high quality good-paying jobs.
Developed by the