The challenge of how to keep local economies from cratering in the COVID-19 crisis is evolving - we don't know when the pandemic will abate and what the state of our cities will be when it does.  The story of Erie presented here is a microcosm of the challenges many cities are facing across the nation. It shows how a community writ large – and a group of remarkable, passionate entrepreneurs, and city builders – have been able to restore a sense of civic pride and purpose and put a city back on track, and how that years-long effort is at risk of reversal in a matter of weeks.

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