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Consultants present draft economic strategy urging San Francisco to grow knowledge, tourism and blue-collar jobs
Summary
ICF Consulting presented a draft San Francisco economic-development plan that prioritizes investing in knowledge-sector innovation, retaining growing companies, raising the visitor-experience value and strengthening links to physical infrastructure to create middle‑income jobs and generate fiscal revenue.
Ted Egan, director of analysis for ICF Consulting, presented the second major deliverable of the city's economic development planning effort, outlining goals and metrics the consultants used to identify "strategic priorities" for San Francisco.
Egan said the plan was informed by outreach, including a web survey that drew about 500 respondents, and by analysis of industry multipliers, job impacts for workers without four‑year degrees and fiscal effects. "One of the goals that we have declared is creating job opportunities by building…
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