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| Summary Number: 23 |
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| Expand the presence and success of major business sectors |
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| | "Tucson's vision should be to become the biotechnology capital of the southwest. Without a platform like this, higher paying jobs and therefore better educated citizens will continue to bypass Tucson." |
| | "Our fiber optics, medical research, and astronomy programs are outstanding. These are facets we must promote and enhance." |
| | "Manufacturing products, research and technological innovation are stong measures of our economic condition and the city and county should go overboard to embrace these industries." |
| | "Tucson needs to get serious about attracting Bio tech and High tech industries and the quality of well paying jobs that come with them. Tucson can not thrive on service sector jobs for the masses." |
| | "I am an architect, but we need a sustainable economy based on tourism, solar, optics, and bioscience." |
| | "The city has lost too many large companies and industries to keep future business from exploring Tucson as a base of operations. The loss of major military contracts, etc. has lost the city much needed revenue." |
| | "Focusing on short term profit as opposed to long term community benefits in development has resulted in unattractive development which has resulted in major, clean industries rejecting Tucson for expansion and diminishes the quality of life for residents." |
| | "I would like to see more high quality indutries and jobs come to Tucson, e.g., Roche, Advanced Ceramics (Sahuarita), Optical and solar indurstries. Tucson is a really neat place, but could definitely use a higher percentage of educated and dynamic people." |
| | "Tucson needs jobs and bigger companies to move here to create a more stable economy. We can definitely offer the lifestyle, so we need to find other incentives as well." |
| | "The large presence of the military and defense industry" |
