Podcast: Tackling Blight & Innovation in Mobile with Terrance Smith

Posted on June 28, 2019


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Terrance Smith

Terrance Smith
Director of Mayor’s Innovation Team
Mobile, AL
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Solving problems. Terrance Smith, the Director of the Innovation Team in the City of Mobile, Alabama, joined the podcast to talk about innovation, working with departments and taking on blight. Terrance shared the process the i-Team went through to get a handle on the problem of blight and then how to address it, which eventually led to a change in state law. He also talked about how they communicate about their work and how they bring in other city staff to explain their process.

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