This toolkit is meant to help manufacturers understand developers, and help developers understand manufacturers, so they can better identify and pursue opportunities to work together.

We also want state, local, and federal govern- ment actors to understand the particular challenges urban manufacturers face in securing the space they need; and we want to promote the development of policy and nancing tools that can lower some of the barriers to nonprofit industrial development that now impede the growth of vibrant, diverse, and stable industrial communities.