Revitalizing Downtown
Revitalizing Downtown

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13:

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Revitalizing Downtown: What is the Main Street Approach to downtown revitalization? How can you use it to revitalize your commercial district? Learn about this strategy, which combines historic preservation and economic development in a grassroots organization, in this introductory primer for the downtown professional. Revitalizing Downtown will show you how to: 1. build on your commercial district?s assets through design; 2. expand business through economic restructuring; 3. develop a dynamic, image-building promotional program; and 4. launch an effective, credible organization. Revised and illustrated, Revitalizing Downtown is an essential tool for every revitalization program. 161 pages

Downtowns
Downtowns

Author: Michael A. Burayidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1134573391

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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

Resilient Downtowns
Resilient Downtowns

Author: Michael Burayidi

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1134071191

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Resilient Downtowns provides a guide to communities in reviving and redeveloping their core districts into resilient, thriving neighborhoods. While the National Main Street program’s four-point approach of organization, promotion, economic restructuring, and design has been standard practice for cities seeking to rejuvenate their downtowns for decades there is disquiet among downtown managers and civic leaders about the versatility of the program. Resilient Downtowns provides communities with the "en-RICHED" approach, a four-step process for downtown development, which focuses on residential development, immigration strategies, civic functionality, heritage tourism, and good design practice. Examples from fourteen small cities across the US show how this process can revitalize downtowns in any city.

Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities
Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities

Author: Philip Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-11-08

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 1351177958

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

"For so long we were floundering and taking ad hoc measures, but the minute I understood what a downtown plan really was I said 'We need one of those!' As it turned out, it was the most fantastic vehicle I've ever seen," said Susan Moffat-Thomas of New Bern, North Carolina. Her hometown got a much-needed shot in the arm from a good downtown plan. Does yours need a similar boost? The Author, an experienced downtown-planning consultant, offers practical tips for preserving a sense of place, improving fiscal efficiency, and enhancing quality of life in Downtown Planning for Smaller and Midsized Communities. Planners and revitalization officials will learn how to address physical components of the downtown, as well as economic development. The Author, an experienced downtown-planning consultant, also explains how to develop an organization to implement a downtown plan; how federal, state, and local policies may influence the planning process; and how to fund a downtown revitalization effort.

Recast Your City
Recast Your City

Author: Ilana Preuss

Publisher: Island Press

Published: 2021-06-22

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 1642831921

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Community development expert Ilana Preuss explains how local leaders can revitalize their downtowns or neighborhood main streets by bringing in and supporting small-scale manufacturing. Small-scale manufacturing businesses help create thriving places, with local business ownership opportunities and well-paying jobs that other business types can't fulfill.