Finding inspiration domestically and abroad for bold action on regional transit

Gateways Episode 50

Policy Center
Feb 12, 2020 Policy Center

This week on Gateways, Tracy returns from a visit to Washington, D.C., where she attended the National Conference of Mayors and heard about transportation models from far and wide that could potentially serve as something for our Commonwealth to aspire to.

Developer Dave Traggorth builds transit hubs with housing

Gateways Episode 48

Policy Center
Jan 23, 2020 Policy Center

This week on Gateways, Ben sits down with real estate developer Dave Traggorth of Traggorth Companies, whose developments can be found in multiple Gateway Cities.

Conversations from the Gateway Cities Innovation Summit & Awards

BONUS Gateways Episode

Policy Center
Jan 1, 2020 Policy Center

During the Gateway Cities Innovation Summit & Awards, our host Tracy got to speak with some of the awardees who are working toward realizing all the potential our Gateway Cities offer. Nick Giaquinto served as chief of staff for late Brockton Mayor Bill Carpenter. Nick accepted the award on behalf

Christopher Coes’ Four Crazy Ideas to Catalyze TOD

Gateways Episode 43

Policy Center
Dec 4, 2019 Policy Center

MassINC recently held the Seventh Annual Gateway Cities Innovation Institute Awards & Summit at the DCU Center in Worcester. Today’s episode brings you a highlight from the gathering—the morning keynote delivered by Christopher Coes, Vice President of Land Use and Development at Smart Growth America.

MassINC Insights

Gateways Episode 38

Policy Center
Oct 29, 2019 Policy Center

This week on Gateways, we bring you an episode of MassINC Insights, the first installment in a series of conversations with the journalists, researchers, and pollsters of MassINC, The MassINC Polling Group and CommonWealth. The nonprofit consistently leads the way in producing nonpartisan research and

Fall River entrepreneur brings healthy food and a heap of inspiration to Gateway City neighborhoods

Gateways Episode 35

Policy Center
Oct 8, 2019 Policy Center

This week on Gateways, we give you Tracy Corley’s live conversation with entrepreneur Luis Gonsalves during the October 2nd Entrepreneurship For All Leadership Summit in Lowell. Luis is an alum of New Bedford High, the US military, and EforAll, which gave him the tools to thrive in the competitive restaurant industry.

Gateway City leaders speak on opportunity zones

Gateways Episode 34.5

Policy Center
Oct 7, 2019 Policy Center

On this bonus episode of Gateways, we continue the conversation on federal Opportunity Zones legislation. Last episode, our guests broke down what Opportunity Funds can do and pointed out areas where they are failing the highest-need communities in our Commonwealth.

Are Opportunity Zones sites of misfortune for distressed neighborhoods?

Gateways Episode 34

Policy Center
Oct 1, 2019 Policy Center

When the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act was unveiled in 2017, much of the national attention was trained on the debate between Republicans and Democrats over whether the cuts disproportionately helped the rich. Woven in the tax code, however, a federal initiative known as Opportunity Zones promised to incentivize

Fares for Gateway Cities residents are off the rails

Gateways Episode 32

Policy Center
Sep 17, 2019 Policy Center

MassINC recently published a report on fare equity that confirmed what most of us already know: the lowest-wealth Commonwealth residents pay more of their incomes to get around the state than wealthier folks. Nowhere is this more apparent than on the MBTA’s commuter rail network, a public

Tackling Smog and Congestion with TCI

Gateways Episode 30

Policy Center
Sep 3, 2019 Policy Center

Traffic congestion in Massachusetts has reached crisis proportions. And while some leaders and officials assure it’s a “symptom of success,” that explanation offers little solace to Bay Staters stuck in mind-numbing traffic everyday. To top it off, gas and diesel-burning cars, trucks, and trains dominate greenhouse