City of Missoula | 7 to raise a family somewhere that doesn’t offer a decent quality of life?” asks Mayor Engen. “There’s a reason that people find comfort in mountain towns like Missoula. We thrive on being a place where people still say ‘Hi’ when passing someone on the street … a place where people can walk out the back door of their home and participate with nature on a rigorous mountain bike ride or a scooter along a trail… a place with clean water and clean air, a place where professionals acknowledge that sustainability is essential to both the quality and sustainability of their business operations as well as their workforce. The notion that sustainability is somehow separate from economic development is what our City Attorney would describe as ‘poppycock’,” says Engen with conviction. As Mayor of Missoula since 2006, Engen has helped galvanize local forces in support of the “Best Places Project,” a proposal to create an economic development program based on the recruitment, retention and development of “right-fit” business enterprises.
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