Looking at the business community in Akron, what is its biggest weakness right now?
I want to consider weaknesses as challenges. Our biggest challenge is to foster the agendas of business, education and government in a cohesive vision to build the community. That’s our biggest challenge. Has that been done before? It’s been done, historically. It’s been something that all communities wrestle with. When I look at the Akron region, I look at it as a product. A product that we sell collectively together with our community partners. That product is the region, and we’re competing in a global marketplace. As a result of that, the biggest challenge we face is that education leaders, government leaders and business leaders who obviously all have their own missions work together to create quality of life for all the citizens of the community. I think that’s our biggest challenge bringing us all together working on one goal. Where would you rank this collective effort among your top goals for the ARDB? No. 1, we have to build upon our strengths; we have strong industrial clust
