Download or read book Strengthening Neighborhood Business Districts written by Seattle (Wash.). Department of Planning and Development and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening Neighborhood Business Districts written by Seattle (Wash.). Department of Planning and Development and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book City Forward written by Matt Enstice and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2022-07-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innovation districts and anchor institutions—like hospitals, universities, and technology hubs—are celebrated for their ability to drive economic growth and employment opportunities. But the benefits often fail to reach the very neighborhoods they are built in. As CEO of the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Matt Enstice took a different approach. Under Matt’s leadership, BNMC has supported entrepreneurship training programs and mentorship for community members, creation of a community garden, bringing together diverse groups to explore transportation solutions, and more. Fostering participation and collaboration among neighborhood leaders, foundations, and other organizations ensures that the interests of Buffalo residents are represented. Together, these groups are creating a new model for re-energizing Buffalo—a model that has applications across the United States and around the world. City Forward explains how BNMC works to promote a shared goal of equity among companies and institutions with often opposing motivations and intentions. When money or time is scarce, how can equitable community building remain a common priority? When interests conflict, and an institution’s expansion depends upon parking or development that would infringe upon public space, how can the decision-making process maintain trust and collaboration? Offering a candid look at BNMC’s setbacks and successes, along with efforts from other institutions nationwide, Enstice shares twelve strategies that innovation districts can harness to weave equity into their core work. From actively creating opportunities to listen to the community, to navigating compromise, to recruiting new partners, the book reveals unique opportunities available to create decisive, large-scale change. Critically, Enstice also offers insight about how innovation districts can speak about equity in an inclusive manner and keep underrepresented and historically excluded voices at the decision-making table. Accessible, engaging, and packed with fresh ideas applicable to any city, this book is an invaluable resource. Institutional leadership, business owners, and professionals hoping to make equitable change within their companies and organizations will find experienced direction here. City Forward is a refreshing look at the brighter, more equitable futures that we can create through thoughtful and strategic collaboration—moving forward, together.
Download or read book Making Business Districts Work written by Marvin D Feit and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unprecedented, broad coverage of downtown and community development topics from a practitioner’s viewpoint! Making Business Districts Work: Leadership and Management of Downtown, Main Street, Business District, and Community Development Organizations is the essential desk reference for downtown and community business district profe
Download or read book The Community Economic Development Handbook written by Mihailo Temali and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002-09-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The step-by-step guide to turning any neighborhood around A weak local economy can be strengthened. A run-down neighborhood of boarded-up storefronts, litter-strewn sidewalks, high unemployment, and poorly-maintained housing can be transformed. An entire community can be lifted up. Mihailo (Mike) Temali knows this first-hand. He has spent nearly twenty years working in community-based economic development, helping cities as diverse as St. Paul, Minnesota, and Santiago, Chile. In this concrete, practical, jargon-free handbook, he describes a proven way to make any community a better place to live. Comprehensive, realistic, and easy-to-use If you don't already have a community economic development (CED) organization in place, Temali tells you how to set one up. Then he defines four pivot points that are crucial to neighborhood economies: 1) Revitalizing your commercial district; 2) Developing microbusinesses; 3) Developing your community workforce; and 4) Growing good neighborhood jobs. He explains how to choose your first pivot point, then guides you through the process of tackling each one. True stories of successful CED provide inspiration. Sidebars explore related issues: dealing with gentrification, finding potential partners, supporting microentrepreneurs, and more. Other CED professionals share their insights in “From the Field” notes. Appendices point you toward useful resources, show you how to use the Internet to research your regional economy, and include dozens of worksheets that will help you move from reading about CED to doing it. The Community Economic Development Handbook is precisely what you need to turn your neighborhood around!
Download or read book Neighborhood Business District Revitalization written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on Capital, Investment, and Business Opportunities and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neighborhood Business Districts written by Wayne A. Lemmon and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reconsidering Localism written by Simin Davoudi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-09 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Localism" has been deployed in recent debates over planning law as an anodyne, grassroots way to shape communities into sustainable, human-scale neighborhoods. But "local" is a moving category, with contradictory, nuanced dimensions. Reconsidering Localism brings together new scholarship from leading academics in Europe and North America to develop a theoretically-grounded critique and definition of the new localism, and how it has come to shape urban governance and urban planning. Moving beyond the UK, this book examines localism and similar shifts in planning policy throughout Europe, and features essays on localism and place-making, sustainability, social cohesion, and citizen participation in community institutions. It explores how debates over localism and citizen control play out at the neighborhood, institutional and city level, and has come to effect the urban landscape throughout Europe. Reconsidering Localism is a current, vital addition to planning scholarship.
Download or read book Neighborhood Business Revitalization Program written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business. Subcommittee on General Oversight and Minority Enterprise and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening Communities with Neighborhood Data written by G. Thomas Kingsley and published by Urban Institute Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efforts to address the problems of distressed urban neighborhoods stretch back to the 1800s, but until relatively recently, data played little role in forming policy. It wasn't until the early 1990s that all of the factors necessary for rigorous, multifaceted analysis of neighborhood conditions--automated government records, geospatial information systems, and local organizations that could leverage both--converged. Strengthening Communities documents that convergence and details its progress, plotting the ways data are improving local governance in America.
Download or read book Improving Tenant Mix a Guide for Commercial District Practitioners written by Larisa Ortiz and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Improving Tenant Mix: A Guide for Commercial District Practitioners is an invaluable guide for economic development practitioners leading retail attraction efforts in downtowns and neighborhood business districts. This guide is written for public-sector officials as well as staff at Business Improvement Districts and community-based non-profits -- anyone leading efforts to improve tenant mix along traditional retail corridors and districts.
Download or read book Growing Local Value written by Laury Hammel and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2007 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing a successful business is about meeting the needs of customers—and, by extension, the needs of the entire community. Turn your business into a good citizen and you can help ensure its success and contribute to making your community a great place to live and work. Growing Local Value shows how to build a values-driven business that is deeply embedded in local life. Drawing on real-world examples from Greyston Bakery, Wild Planet Toys, Powell's Books, and many other companies, Laury Hammel and Gun Denhart show how you can leverage every aspect of your business—from product creation to employee recruitment, vendor selection, and raising capital—to benefit both the community and the bottom line. Growing Local Value explores in depth how your business can contribute to its community—and the benefits it will receive when it does.
Download or read book Create a Thriving Business District written by Karin Zaugg and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strengthening Community Economies written by Illinois Committee to Strengthen Community Economics and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Small Business Problems in Urban Areas written by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Small Business and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Neighborhood Business Retention and Expansion written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis examines the potential role for community development corporations (CDCs) in the practice of business retention by investigating the industrial central city neighborhood of Greater Old North Dayton (GOND) in Dayton, Ohio. With commercial land uses dominating GOND, the health of businesses bears significant impact on the health of the neighborhood. In spite of this integral relationship between, the City of Dayton has a minimal presence in GOND, and the CDC serving the area, the Old North Dayton Development Corporation (ONDDC), has not been engaged in economic development of the neighborhood. In response, ONDDC and the GOND Business Association sponsored a survey of businesses in their community. The survey revealed that GOND is home to a significant concentration of manufacturing firms, particularly tooling and machining and related businesses. The survey also identified the chief concerns of business as being in the areas of labor supply, local government services, and the quality of the neighborhood as a place to do business. Labor supply issues were most severe for manufacturers who were suffering shortages in both skilled and unskilled workforce. Businesses expressed dissatisfaction with local government, with complaints including unfair taxes, poor quality of basic services, and unresponsiveness to business requests. Concerns regarding GOND as a place to do business surrounded problems that are typical of older central city neighborhoods. While most firms pointed to the area2s regional centrality and excellent interstate access as positive location factors, most also noted that crime and blighted appearance are detractors for the neighborhood. This study offers strategies for neighborhood-based economic development. ONDDC is presented as a vehicle for economic development well-positioned to be attentive to neighborhood businesses and to fill the gap left by a shrinking city staff and a Chamber of Commerce whose focus is larger businesses. Specific recommendations for ONDDC2s economic development efforts include developing a workforce development program that connect neighborhood residents and manufacturers, serving as a liaison between local government and businesses, improving neighborhood crime watches, coordinating shared security among businesses, and promoting positive events in order to cultivate a sense of momentum about the neighborhood.
Download or read book Legislative Proposals on GSE Reform written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Financial Services. Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
