{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Love of Here | Life and Work in Northwest Georgia","title":"Vision Dalton and the Future of Community Growth with Anna Adamson","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2490,"description":"What does it take to make a small city a place people choose — not just to work, but to stay, to raise kids, and to build something that lasts? Anna Adamson has been wrestling with that question for years, and the answers are more layered than you might expect. From bringing a Junior Achievement Discovery Center to the smallest community in the country to ever open one, to poring over housing data that explains why Target never came to town, to piloting construction technology that can frame a house in a single day — Anna's work with Believe Greater Dalton and the Florin Capital Development Corporation sits at the intersection of data, relationships, and long-term vision. We trace her unlikely path back to Dalton, unpack the housing challenges facing the region, tour the projects going vertical right now, and explore the Vision Dalton Master Plan that could reshape the urban core. Along the way we talk about the \"jewels\" that make Dalton extraordinary, why connection is the real theme of this conversation, and where to find the best oysters in town.\nHIGHLIGHTS\nAnna's circuitous route back to Dalton: born in Atlanta, raised in Dalton, high school in Chattanooga, college in Texas — and a boyfriend from Dalton that pulled her backHow her father's career pivot from Arthur Andersen to building The Farm Golf Club shaped her eventual path into community developmentSix years at Junior Achievement and the realization that workforce preparedness starts in the classroomDalton opening the JA Discovery Center as the smallest community in the country to do so — serving roughly 15,000 students per yearThe housing study that uncovered aging housing stock, no new multifamily since the early 2000s, and lasting damage from the 2008 recession\"Retail follows rooftops\" — why population decline and stagnant growth affect everything from school funding to restaurant optionsHamilton Village: how land donated by Mohawk became an innovative workforce housing developmentA pilot using...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/32Msm-9Gwlojlmwh9dOdnofsbjwMDCFdOa9IIi5kxJw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zOTc4/NWIzOWNkMjJjYThh/OGMxYTkzMTY3OWJk/OTg4ZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}