KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Joel Kotkin, Executive Director, Center for Opportunity Urbanism, Fellow – Urban Studies, Chapman University & Author of The Human City: Urbanism for the Rest of Us
Henry Cisneros, Former Mayor, Co-founder and Chairman of CityView
Scott Beyer, Forbes Columnist, Author of bigcitysparkplug.com
Texas cities have been identified by researchers at The Center for Opportunity Urbanism as ‘America’s Next Boom Towns.’ The Texas Business Journals will partner with the center to conduct and share new research on the growing economic vitality of Texas. The program will build on the center’s recent national study which identified the cities most likely to boom in the next decade, analyzing the 51 largest MSAs in the country across 8 metrics indicative of past, present and future vitality.