Fortnightly Smartest Communities: Alex Fischer

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Columbus

Fortnightly Magazine - July 2019
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With the support of the Dentons Smart Cities & Communities Think Tank, PUF chose to honor Austin, Columbus, San Antonio, Spokane and suburban Birmingham as the Fortnightly Smartest Communities 2019. 
 

PUF: What's your job and its connection to Columbus being arguably the smartest city or community in America?

Alex Fischer: I'm president and CEO of the Columbus Partnership, which is a group of seventy-five corporate CEOs who care passionately about their city, and we're their agents for change in the community.

We focus on economic prosperity and downtown redevelopment. We have a big economic development organization that we founded. There's still a part of us called Columbus 2020 that drives the economic development of the eleven-county area around Columbus and we get involved in most things, all with a mission of trying to make Columbus a better place.

PUF: It's a beautiful city and it's rapidly growing.

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