Richard Florida, Creative Class Group come to North Texas to work with UT Arlington, community leaders

ARLINGTON - Two world-renowned economic development experts are coming to The University of Texas at Arlington with plans to make North Texas their urban and economic development laboratory. Richard Florida, Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute at the University of Toronto founder of the Creative Class Group, a global advisory services firm, and Steven Pedigo, director of Research and Communities for the Creative Class Group, join UT Arlington as visiting scholars in the School of Urban and Public Affairs during the next two years. Florida is the best-selling author of the 2005