Ashleigh Kanat Oakland Economic & Workforce Development Director Isn’t Saving JobsOakland is losing small businesses at a record pace. One would think she would be focused on business retention programs and generating and steering tax increment financing revenue toward them. But no.Ashleigh Kanat is spending time working with Urban Land Institute and “a team of experts in housing, design, historic preservation, real estate, and economics,” exploring ideas that could help create a more vibrant, welcoming Downtown Oakland.I feel sorry for the many Oakland business owners who do not have time to contemplate their navals and news about businesses dying happens every week.Why is Mayor Lee allowing this to go on?I am Zennie Abraham, Oakland Blogger and Vlogger and Oakland Economic Development Expert who formed a plan to bring the 2005 Super Bowl to Oakland and got our city to be one of three finalists with Jacksonville and Miami. Jacksonville won but it should have been Oakland.We action, not college -style fantasy works.
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