Netherlands trip leaves Middletown official ‘enlightened’

Middletown economic development coordinator Bill Murphy returned from a recent trip to the Netherlands “very enlightened” by how the Dutch approach economic development.

Murphy was part of a 15-member trade delegation led by the Cincinnati USA Partnership that included visits to Amsterdam and Rotterdam to study local practices in renewable and alternative energy, brownfield development and green architecture.

According to the Middletown Journal, Murphy says that, while Americans tend to think of 10 to 20 years as being “long-term”, the Dutch consider resource allocation as far as 50 years out.

The delegation also included representatives from Hamilton, Cincinnati, and Blue Ash, as well as private sector developers and architects.

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