“Communities all over the country are dealing with the aftermath of the loss of heavy industry and the jobs that went with it,” says RIDC President Donald Smith in his article for Revitalization News.

“Huge buildings and campuses built for companies that employed thousands of workers now lay vacant, with a corresponding impact on tax revenues and all the local services those revenues provide. The challenges are complex.”

Read on to see how RIDC partners with communities to put these properties back on the tax rolls, create jobs, and more by clicking here.