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Tracy Alloway

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Say more about the rezoning process, because if there's one thing I remember from playing SimCity for hours, you know, in the late 1990s, it was that if you zone industry next to residential, your population is not going to be happy.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

So I'm very curious, like how much that has actually changed and what the rezoning process is like now versus, say, 10 years ago.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

How SimCity ruined America.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Have you got all the grant money, the Biden era grant money?

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

We did.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

All of it.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

So, OK, so there's nothing.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Yeah.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

So speaking of practicality, I sometimes get the sense that there's like a bit of a disconnect between how people in D.C.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

are thinking about industrial policy, whether it's Trump or the Biden administration versus like mayors such as yourself who actually have to implement the stuff and figure out exactly how to spend the money.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Like what's the biggest area of, I guess, like tension that you see or what could D.C.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

actually do to make using those federal funds easier for you?

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Can you talk specifically about how you're thinking about data centers?

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Because this is like the example of what we're getting at.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

And in theory, you know, Allentown, you got a bunch of big warehouses and things like that.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Like we... Oh, there really are.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Yeah.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

It's kind of crazy.

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

Like you've data center proofed your zoning?

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How an American City Can Become a Manufacturing Hub

It's fairly small scale.