One Big Thing: Eric serves as a Sagamore Institute senior fellow and director of the Renewing Cities initiative.  This work seeks to replicate Eric’s success in acquiring 44 properties in under 20 months in Van Wert, OH. This private sector solution to revitalizing small towns is the most sustainable and scalable solution in America to reverse decades of decline.

• Eric served as president of the Indiana Economic Development Corporation, where he was the architect of the then-Gov. Mike Pence’s pioneering Regional Cities initiative.
• Eric was the driving force behind the redevelopment of Fort Wayne’s iconic Electric Works campus.
• Eric is a graduate of Hillsdale College and is actively working to restore the downtown of his alma mater.

• Check out research from Ball State University examining the estimated $1.6 billion impact of Indiana’s Regional Cities Initiative.
• Read Eric’s book on his work in Van Wert, Ohio, highlighting how the restoration of downtown commercial districts can revitalize small Midwestern towns.
• Learn about the success of Electric Works in Fort Wayne, which at the time was Indiana’s largest redevelopment project.
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