Progress is when a business flourishes and expands to meet a growing demand, while still maintaining the quality that caused its success in the first place. A good example is Tim and Gretchen Buckingham's move to buy the Sundowner. Progress is when local citizens try to stay loyal to those well-established restaurants. Development is when locals abandon them in droves for the franchise chains, in order to save a few cents. Progress is a new business that comes to town and offers a new service or product that we truly need and could not obtain before.
Development is another T-shirt shop with an absentee owner.
The day Boxers R' Us opens, a business that would truly fill a need, I hope to be its first customer. Progress is suitable housing for all its citizens. Progress is the County Council and the Nature Conservancy saving the Mayberry Orchard. Development is seeing most of Grand County's other orchards turned into subdivisions. Progress is appreciating the value of the spectacular view we all enjoy of the West Wall each day.