Challenges of development in West Alabama

Saturday, January 29, 2005

Here's a good article that explores the complexities of rural development in West Alabama. The Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway was supposed to ignite development along its corridor of 54 counties in four states. But development has not reached in West Alabama counties along the waterway.

Development is more complex than that. There are no simple answers.

One conclusion does ring true. As one EDPro notes: "You have to come together and work as a region, because the reality is we don't have the resources to do things by ourselves." Read more.

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