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The center offers small towns 20 tips for attracting Lone Eagles. Some are broad “quality of life” factors—good schools, low-cost housing, safe streets, health care facilities and such. Others are more specific to Lone Eagle needs: modem telecommunications, access to a major airport, support for homebased businesses, overnight express delivery, and access to the Internet, the worldwide information superhighway.
Oberlin, Kansas, population 2,300, is one town going all out to lure Lone Eagles. Trying to attract manufacturing jobs to the Kansas prairie hadn’t worked, so the town refocused its economic development strategy on Lone Eagles, said Jerry Fear, the city administrator. With help from a major bequest, Oberlin last year built a $2.5 million business center with meeting facilites, computer labs, Internet connections and an interactive video conferencing center.
“We’re trying to make sure we have everthing in our community that would be attractive to people who want to leave the city,” says Fear.
In Colorado, such ski towns as Steamboat Springs and Telluride seek to make themselves Lone Eagles nesting places. Littleton, just outside Denver, spends thousands of dollars annually providing free computer data-base research to Lone Eagles. “They feel like we are their R and D arm,” says Christian Gibbons, director of business and industry affairs. “When you are a Lone Eagle, you dori’t have access to these kinds of information resources, and its can be made-orbreak for your business. ”
Rappahannock County has a lot to offer one Lone Eagle business people, said County Administrator
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