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Introducing the Make It. MSP. Talent Initiative
on Monday, October 26, 2015
Make It. MSP. is a collaboration involving dozens of companies, cities, universities and nonprofits to retain and attract talented people in our region. Make It. MSP. is how this community is coming together to take action on an issue that is ...
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Brookings Institution: To drive the economy, MSP looks to the dashboard
on Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Brookings Institution blogs about the new MSP Regional Indicators Dashboard. "Many cities struggle with regional coordination," the blog says. "Leaders in greater Minneapolis-St. Paul made a different bet: Agree on the end game, and regional alignment will follow."
Regional Partnership Announces MSP Regional Indicators Dashboard
on Tuesday, June 9, 2015

A new MSP Regional Indicators Dashboard will better track our region's economic competitiveness and build a path toward the future.
The regional indicators dashboard is a set of shared metrics that will track the region’s overall success ...
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Why is Minneapolis growing almost five times faster than Chicago?
on Tuesday, May 12, 2015

This report from the Metropolitan Planning Council in Chicago offers these takeaways:
After analyzing a host of indicators and trends, the key difference is that Minneapolis has maintained a strong economy, far outpacing Chicago and other cities ...
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Introducing the MSP Trade & Investment Plan
on Friday, April 17, 2015
We are entering a time of enormous change and potential economic growth. We are seeing a growth of the middle class outside the US in a way that we have never seen before. Consider that 79% of the world’s economic growth will happen outside ...
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Knight Grants Will Help Region Attract, Retain Talented Workers
on Thursday, April 9, 2015
4Play, a once-each-season regional day of recreation, has won a $117,000 Knight Cities Challenge grant.
4Play was proposed by The Minneapolis Saint Paul Regional Economic Development Partnership (GREATER MSP) to change the way people perceive ...
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Task Force: Let's Attract and Retain Talent
on Friday, March 6, 2015
Hear Why Talent Task Force Members Bert Colianni and Jamie Millard Think Now's the Time
for a Talent Attraction and Retention Effort in the Greater MSP Region
No regional effort exists here to retain and attract the professional talent critical ...
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#Jobs Here: Talent Wanted!
on Thursday, February 26, 2015
Regional Talent Initiative Overview #MakeItMSP
As part of our mission as the economic development partnership for Minneapolis Saint Paul, GREATER MSP and more than 1,000 partners created a regional economic development strategy in 2013. ...
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Interview: Why Matsuura Chose Greater MSP for U.S. Headquarters
on Wednesday, October 22, 2014
The Greater MSP region is experiencing a greater diversity in the ownership and operation of manufacturing companies.
One recent example is Matsuura Machinery Corporation, based in Japan. When Matsuura wanted to create a wholly-owned American ...
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Let's Brag A Little
on Wednesday, October 15, 2014
Tell Our Story! Here's a video of top 10 facts about the Greater Minneapolis Saint Paul region to get you started.
