Last updated April 2026
A living record of this dispatch beyond the report. New writing from RiverWise and New Sun Rising, press coverage as it surfaces, and announcements about the work that follows.
The hub crossed $5M in annual gross regional product this winter, but the more interesting numbers are the ones that don't show up in REMI: the lunches 412 Food Rescue routed out the back door, the rent the cafe didn't charge, the way the whole block reads differently at 4pm now.
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A three-year capacity program for community-led infrastructure across the Ohio River corridor. SFI inherits the framework laid out in this dispatch and operationalises it as a live grant pipeline. First cohort opens in June.
Continue readingThe Pittsburgh Post-Gazette covers the dispatch's headline figure and walks through the methodology pairing — REMI for jobs and gross regional product, SROI for the value markets miss.
Read at Pittsburgh Post-GazetteAn honest accounting of where the rubric over-counted, where it under-counted, and the two outcomes we now wish we'd tracked from the start. We're publishing the revised methodology alongside this note.
Continue readingNext City reads the dispatch as a deliberate argument against single-site development logic, and traces the lineage from the 1980s steel collapse through to the present cycle of hyperscale data-centre announcements.
Read at Next CityWhy the next round of regional capital should not be staked on the next big employer, and what fifteen years of distributed, community-led work actually produced when measured carefully.
Continue readingA half-day session walking program officers and grant-makers through the dispatch's economic modelling. Bring the projects you're weighing. RSVP closes April 4.
Continue readingWESA traces the network of community development corporations, fiscally sponsored programs, and main-street redevelopment efforts that the dispatch aggregates, and asks what changes when these are read as a single portfolio.
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