Startup District

[panamaniac]

Ya I occasionally fear that our economy is becoming too one dimensional. Maybe someone in the industry can comment more?

Tech is such a broad space, though. Here's some of the work from relatively new local offices that comes to mind: enterprise education systems, ad optimization, social media platforms, user input devices, traffic count systems, building navigation devices, human resources systems.

To be clear, there are federal tax credits and nearby sources of engineering talent that both support local tech companies, but I don't think we're talking about a one dimensional economy.

Pending a new thread for "non high tech economic/manufacturing news" (not sure what to call it) this article from today's Record about Barbarian clothing seems on point. There have been a good number of reports about growth in our local manufacturing sector over the past year. Mostly small-scale stuff, but still.....

http://www.therecord.com/news-story/480 ... ing-again/