By Steve Bennish, Staff Writer Dayton — The city of Dayton’s economic development non-profit, CityWide Development Corporation, announced Wednesday that it has received a $20 million allocation from the U.S. Treasury to sell tax credits. The sale of the credits to investors should raise about 40 percent of that amount to fund projects in economically distressed parts of a nine-county region. The real estate, business and other development projects selected by CityWide must provide e…

Dayton, Ohio – Nov 1, 2011 – Nationally-recognized speakers, Mark Lang and Penny Lewandowski, of the Edward Lowe Foundation, spoke at Sinclair Community College on how communities can embrace strategies to grow existing businesses and plant the seeds for a stronger local economy. At the event, the subject of economic gardening was explored, which is the concept that local businesses drive economies and create jobs in a community rather than the practice of solely recruiting from elsewhere…