Tracy Alloway

We do, in fact, have the perfect guest.

We're going to be speaking with the mayor of Allentown, Matt Turk.

So thank you so much for coming on All Thoughts.

We just saw you have a medal from the marathon over the weekend.

Tell us about that.

That is dedication to both cardio and city planning.

So congrats on that.

I mentioned Allentown, the song and the video in the intro, and I discovered there's some controversy about this because apparently the steelmaking was more in Bethlehem rather than in Allentown.

So should Billy Joel have been talking about semiconductors instead of steel?

That was amazing.

Well, that was a fantastic summary.

On that note, I mean, I think a lot of cities and towns in America, whether they're in the Rust Belt or Pennsylvania or the South or wherever, who have gone through this deindustrialization phase, they all say they want to build back their manufacturing sector in some way.

But it feels like Allentown has kind of gone about it in a slightly different way in that you've had a sort of grand strategy or vision for how to do that rather than try to attract just like...

individual businesses in a piecemeal way.

Can you talk about how you actually formulated that plan?

Yeah, so this is another thing I learned about Allentown.

I'm full of Allentown facts at the moment, but apparently Allentown is within a day's drive of 40% of the population in the U.S.

Is that true?

Super... Monkeys swinging from trees.

Weight gain industry is, I think, what we're both doing in Madrid.