Tallahassee should be more than a government and college town. It should be a Region of Innovation. 

Government does not create jobs, but it can create the conditions where jobs grow. Daryl Parks will end the political infighting that has held our region back and bring the city, county, universities, chambers, and neighboring counties together to attract private-sector employers, diversify our economy, and put more money in local pockets. 

Daryl’s Plan

• Launch an Economic Integration Task Force and an annual Big Bend Economic Summit to align city, county, FSU, FAMU, TCC, and regional business leaders around one shared jobs strategy. 

• Use our city-owned utilities, international airport, and coming Free Trade Zone to recruit logistics, manufacturing, and R&D employers to a shovel-ready industrial site. 

• Revitalize historic commercial corridors with matching grants, better streetscapes, and high-speed internet for local small businesses. 

• Build workforce housing on underused city-owned land, and stand up down-payment assistance for teachers, nurses, first responders, and workers at newly recruited employers. 

• Turn downtown into a live-work-play innovation core anchored by the TMH-FSU health merger, the MagLab, and student-driven tech incubators at FAMU and FSU. 

Read the full plan: A Unified Economic Development and Regional Job Growth Strategy (PDF).