The city’s best economic strategy is to make it a place where people actually want to spend time.
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A few years ago I had a conversation with Mayor John Street that I’ll never forget.
If you had $100 million to invest in Philadelphia, I asked him, where would you invest it? We agreed that dramatically reducing the onerous business taxes would be the best fix, but since that’s been a political nonstarter, Mayor Street had a different idea. “I’d make the city more fun,” he said. “If you do that, people will come to Philadelphia. And that will benefit everyone.”…