Originally Posted by
Roody
I'm hoping to see at least one of the huge abandoned auto plants turned into kind of a mall for small manufacturers. I'd love to see a shop making new steel bike frames, next to one making wind turbines, next to one making a new type of battery for cars and storage of locally produced power.
Super idea. I'd imagine something set up like a science or engineering department at a university, with shared machine & model shops, payroll administration, regulatory compliance, IT facilities, etc. Many wonderful businesses have germinated by piggybacking their very early development on university facilities, sometimes surreptitiously and sometimes by formal arrangements. In any case I think the manufacturing mall idea is pretty good.