The city is working on a project aimed at spreading tourist streams to areas that have not typically been visited by tourists in the past by involving the local population, businesses and authorities.
Unfortunately, because of the lack of general education on the mobility issue of the population, businesses, technicians and the political class, this catching up appears as an imported concept, not a home-grown need and phenomenon, and it occurs with little coherence or coordination.
But up the block at JamRock Kitchen, a narrow Jamaican take-out place catering to the neighborhood's dwindling Caribbean population, business has been sporadic since it opened four years ago.
These goals are accomplished by combining and analysing data from different sources, including five travel surveys, and other data concerning building stock, population, business activity, commuting and traffic counts.
After all, take a shop in my home town, Winchcombe (Gloucestershire, population 4,500); businesses impact directly on the town in terms of litter and traffic generation but business rates currently do not stay with the place in which the business operates.
Today the state has the nation's fastest-growing Hispanic population, and businesses are eager to see their work force licensed and insured.
As it presents itself here in 1995, Echo Park is a scruffy part of the city that attracts an immigrant population, marginal businesses and crime.
Asking authorities to meet the needs of their population and businesses, where this can be done without significant harm, does not feel like an extreme policy approach.
In the 19th century it had the image of being aggressive and self-promoting, stealing population and businesses from the East.
I timed my visit to coincide with a gathering in Grand Forks of participants in the New Economy Initiative, an ambitious industrial-development strategy-in-the-making, orchestrated by a statewide coalition of chambers of commerce, whose goals include increasing and diversifying the population, enabling businesses to become more technologically sophisticated, and creating more high-paying jobs.
In the Philippines, there has been a growing population of businesses engaging in the industry of providing personal care services.
