Holland, ‘Snowmelt,’ ‘Patient Capital,’ and the Revival of Downtown
by James Fallows
I’ve already mentioned several of the factors most striking about Holland on first exposure — its very strong local manufacturing base; the goods and bads of its highly religious, still Dutch-themed self-image and culture; the effects of a large migrant-worker and immigrant presence; the goods and bads of influential and very rich local industrial families; etc. For now I’ll talk about one other: the seeming health of its small-town downtown. (Read it here.)