When comparing Baltimore with every other global business location or investment option, the city has a lot to offer. I look at three basic factors when I judge any city: talent, foreign money and infrastructure. Baltimore ranked as the 11th best city in America for tech talent in a recent CBRE survey. It sits within the Northeast Corridor from Boston to Washington, and it has a great transportation network including BWI Airport, I-95, I-70 and the Port of Baltimore. The problem is that the institutional and foreign money required to revitalize a city is not coming to Baltimore in anything but a trickle — and some is leaving. The most recent example is the Canadian owner of the rundown Pimlico Race Course trying to move the Preakness Stakes to a new Maryland racetrack outside of Baltimore. Furthermore, while tech talent is created in Baltimore, it generally doesn’t stay here. A companion CBRE talent study found that Baltimore is a significant “brain-drain” city (talented graduates leaving).