Ogden’s burgeoning mobile app industry gets a $1 million federal boost
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| US Gimmint Uncle Sugar |
The
Standard-Examiner picks up
where it left off on 4/27/12, with this morning's encouraging news that
"Ogden’s burgeoning mobile app industry just got a [giant] financial boost from the federal government," with a brand new federal grant, ringing in to the to the tune of a cool one million bucks:
Ogden taxpayers will have some
skin in the game with respect to this project too, as the
Standard also reports that
"the city will kick in $285,000 for the purchase and renovation of a building at 2314 Washington Blvd. Another $145,000 will go into a loan fund that will be used for business loans associated with the program."
While we continue to have our concerns about the appropriateness of involving cash-strapped
Ogden taxpayers in subsidizing economic development projects like this, we'll resist the temptation to gripe about it this go-round, inasmuch as the projected
Ogden City payout appears to be a drop in the bucket, especially when compared to such projects during the madcap, free-spending Boss Godfrey years. Moreover, taking into account the projected jobs, revenue and investment which can reasonably be expected to flow from this project in the years to come, we'll chalk this up as an
Ogden good news story, folks, all in all.
Of course that's just us... what about you?
