Pomona travel courting potential businesses and developers

This is the second of a series of posts in which I describe and address what I believe to be critical issues or challenges facing Pomona. My goal is to discuss a different issue every week to ten days. This weeks topic is a follow-up to my previous post on the Citys finances.

Business friendly is a phrase cities commonly use when participating at economic development conferences and when courting potential businesses and developers. The expression can mean different things in different jurisdictions, depending upon how much or how little can be offered as an incentive to lure a business or a project. However, as I learned in my 24-year career as a community development professional with two neighboring cities, astute investors also look at the political culture of cities in which they may be interested to determine how easy or difficult it may be to navigate through the process.

During the final decade of my professional career, and upon learning I was a long-time Pomona resident, it troubled me to hear first-hand from a number of developers and investors that they made a conscious choice to steer clear of our City. The reasons varied, but a common complaint I often heard was that potential investors did not want to deal with Pomona politics. Specific examples and people were occasionally cited, but those are not important for this discussion.

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