Aisha Glover, left, president andCEO, Newark Alliance, and Tim Sullivan, president of the New JerseyEconomic Development Authority
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ—Communities repositioningaging downtown business districts to attract commercial developers,tenants, and new residents will need strong leadership capable ofpersuading constituents to embrace emerging development models, saymorning plenary panelists at NJ Future's13th annual Redevelopment Conference, held Friday in NewBrunswick, NJ.
“You need to engage your residents and yourconstituents, absolutely,” says Eugene R. Diaz,founder and principal of Prism Capital Partners,who participated in the panel, “Making Every Place A Great Place toLive and Work.” “But human nature being what it is, people don'tlike change, and they don't understand change. And it takes ittakes powerful, strong leadership to tell them, 'You're wrong.Don't fight this. This is where the world is going. This is whatneeds to happen.'”
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