The CoolTown Guild is the talent pool by which these CoolTowns can and will be built.

Upon walking up to a CoolTown, one of the most striking features will be the visual sense that this is a mecca for creativity.  The goal is to produce the same physical experience and wonder as when you walk down the streets of Paris or Venice for the first time, or if kids could walk through Willie Wonka’s chocolate factory.

That’s the goal.  The modern reality unfortunately is far different, but one man

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Have you seen any of these COOL initiatives applied on a University/College campus?  Wayne State University, Detroit MI

Great question, and the honest answer is ‘not yet’.  Utah State University, a to-be-announced major university in Connecticut, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champlain, and maybe Wayne State University (yours truly) have every intention of supporting a CoolTown-like magnet as a regional economic draw for more than just academics.  Living/learning centers, as described

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