Niche Strategies for Downtown Revitalization

Niche Strategies for Downtown Revitalization

Author: N. David Milder

Publisher: Purdue University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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Does your downtown have a cluster of businesses that provide specific products or services? How about furniture and home furnishings? Antiques? Children's wear? Arts and entertainment? Upscale boutiques? Thrift shops? Or do you have a particular group of customers? What about college students, office workers, retirees, parents with young children? Then you have a downtown niche-one of the most powerful tools available for downtown revitalization. Niche Strategies for Downtown Revitalization will take you step-by-step through the process of identifying current or potential niches in your downtown. It will show you how to use them as the focus for downtown organization, promotion and recruitment, and it will give you the tools you need to use this powerful revitalization strategy in your downtown.


Downtown Business Recruitment

Downtown Business Recruitment

Author: David Milder

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2005-10

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13: 1411654978

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"In the world of commercial area revitalization, the subject most often talked about and less often acted upon is business recruitment. If a commercial area lacks sufficient commercial enterprises, then it is to that degree not a center of commerce at all, a sad place indeed. David Milder has produced a work such that no Downtown activist will any longer have the excuse that the subject is muddy, confusing, impenetrable; here is the comprehensive source. From costs to cautions, from messages to media, Milder lays out the practical steps to enable Business Improvement Districts and others to fill commercial space with winning tenants. Should be on the desk of every self styled economic development professional." Lawrence O. Houstoun The Atlantic Group The Preview Download is the first 15 pages of the book.


Cities Back from the Edge

Cities Back from the Edge

Author: Roberta Brandes Gratz

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2000-01-27

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 9780471361244

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"A love song for the city . . . [this] volume, attractivelypackaged and richly illustrated, is really a cookbook for downtownrevitalization." --Wall Street Journal In this pioneering book on successful urban recovery, two urbanexperts draw on their firsthand observations of downtown changeacross the country to identify a flexible, effective approach tourban rejuvenation. From transportation planning and sprawlcontainment to the threat of superstore retailers, they address ahost of key issues facing our cities today. Roberta Brandes Gratz (New York, NY), an award-winning journalistand urban critic, is author of the urban design classic The LivingCity. A former staff reporter for the New York Post, Gratz haswritten for the New York Times Magazine and other publications.Norman Mintz (New York, NY) has played a leading role in the fieldof downtown revitalization for more than twenty-five years. He isDesign Director at the 34th Street Partnership in New York City anda consultant on downtown revitalization across the country.


Key Concepts in Leisure

Key Concepts in Leisure

Author: Jonathan Sutherland

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2009-09-09

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 1350314838

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Leisure studies encompasses the broadest range of leisure and sports pursuits and marries management, administration and sports, as well as customer service. Key Concepts in Leisure presents an indispensable guide to the key themes and concepts in this rapidly developing, fast-paced and demanding industry.


Downtowns

Downtowns

Author: Michael A. Burayidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1134573464

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This collection evaluates the various strategies that different cities have used when attempting to economically revitalize downtown areas.


Community Renewal through Municipal Investment

Community Renewal through Municipal Investment

Author: Roger L. Kemp

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2015-08-13

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1476609101

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Local officials are making investment decisions to enhance the quality of life in their communities and to improve economic development conditions. These new programs are not municipal give-aways, or, as some call them, corporate welfare programs, but efforts to invest wisely in downtown areas and neighborhoods with the goal of revitalizing them, with the hope that business and commerce will follow. This work presents case studies from Atlanta, Baltimore, Baton Rouge, Berkeley, Boulder, Cambridge, Charleston, Chattanooga, Chesterfield County, Chicago, Cleveland, Denver, DuPont, Grand Forks, Hampton, Hartford, Hayward, Houston, Kansas City, Lake Worth, Little Rock, Madison, Minneapolis, Nashville, New Bedford, Newark, Oakland, Orlando, Petuluma, Portland, Saint Paul, Santa Monica, Seattle, Toronto, and Washington, D.C. The case study topics include streetscapes, public plazas, museums, libraries, cultural parks, walkways and greenways, major infrastructure improvements, transit and transportation enhancements and other works.


An Introduction to Community Development

An Introduction to Community Development

Author: Rhonda Phillips

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008-12-02

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 1135977224

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Comprehensive and practical, this textbook enables students to connect academic study and professional know-how, and demonstrates how to best plan the rebuilding, revitalization and development of communities utilizing a wide variety of economic and strategic tools. Features include; chapter outlines, text boxes, key words and references.


Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

Revitalizing America's Smaller Legacy Cities

Author: Torey Hollingsworth

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781558443709

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This report examines the unique challenges of smaller American legacy cities -- older industrial centers with populations of less than 200,000, located primarily in the Midwest and Northeast. These cities are critical sites for a number of global economic and demographic transformations, and must fundamentally reconsider how to rebuild and sustain strong economies, housing markets, and workforces. This report identifies replicable strategies that have assisted smaller legacy cities weather these transformations, find their competitive edge, and transform into thriving, sustainable communities.


Cities and the Arts

Cities and the Arts

Author: Roger L. Kemp

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2004-11-12

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780786420070

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Citizens, nonprofit organizations and local public officials--in increasing numbers--are using the arts and culture as vehicles to improve their downtowns, as well as to enhance general economic conditions within their communities. Public officials especially are learning that they can plant the seeds of urban renewal and, at the same time, promote their city's culture and arts. This not only renews their neighborhoods and downtowns, but also attracts tourists and private investment. A new eclectic economic development model has evolved and is beginning to work in a number of politically, economically, racially and culturally diverse communities throughout America. From Atlanta and Reno to Philadelphia and Seattle, this work includes numerous case studies that demonstrate the ways in which cities and towns are now using the arts to stimulate both downtown and neighborhood revitalization. The future of the arts in cities is also examined. Five appendices are included, as well: "Cities with Arts, Cultural, and/or Entertainment Districts in the United States," "Regional Resource Directory," "National Resource Directory," "National Directory of State Art Agencies," and "National Directory of Regional Arts Organizations."