If Pueblo, CO wants to thrive, it needs to reinvent itself, in part, around the creative class. I read this quote and thought it struck a core with Pueblo since Pueblo is an old steelmaking town.
p. 6 "Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steelmaking. It determines where companies will choose to locate and grow, and this in turn changes the ways cities must compete. As Hewlett-Packard (Packard was actually from Pueblo, CO) CEO Carley Fiorina once told this nation's governors: "Keep your tax incentives and highway interchanges; we will go where the highly skilled people are."
The Rise of the Creative Class by Richard Florida
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