Some of the best arguments for historic preservation are not aesthetic or sentimental, but economic. Here are some examples of how the preservation and reuse of historic buildings can increase an area’s productivity.
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Wisconsin offered a $3 billion dollar subsidy to Foxconn and were promised a $10 billion factory and 13,000 jobs in exchange. Instead, the locals got three empty buildings, a few hundred jobs, and a mountain of debt. Sorry, Wisconsin. As Ronny Chieng from the Daily Show put it, “You got catfished.”
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Armando Moritz-Chapelliquen is a passionate community organizer in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley.
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Freeport, ME, is famous as the home of LL Bean, but in the aftermath of the retail apocalypse and increasing vacancy rates, town officials and residents are asking, “What do we want downtown Freeport to be?”
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Entrepreneurship makes Main Street go round, but those working in the field have to remember that building owners are entrepreneurs, too, and they should be getting a lot more attention.
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Residents of Winter Garden, FL, realized they needed to take action to revive their declining town. They did this by focusing on one straightforward goal: bring people back downtown.
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This arena promises to revitalize a portion of Philadelphia’s downtown that has been in economic decline. Here’s why locals are skeptical of these promises.
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Your community may need to reshape how it thinks about community and economic development.
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A small, local, mixed-use business versus a new Amazon warehouse. Let’s put these two business proposals before the Shark Tank (Winnipeg edition).
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This guide will take you through short-term and long-term strategies for downtown and Main Street recovery in the wake (and midst) of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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What are some of the practical ways that faith communities can contribute to healthy economic ecosystems?
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How do we build vibrant local economies that are good for the people who actually live in a neighborhood?
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If we want to have meaningful conversations about "the economy" and how it affects everyday people, then our focus needs to shift from macro to local.
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When communities support small businesses, it helps give them agency over their own economic development.
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Some cities are better than others at providing economic opportunity for residents. What sets them apart, and how can we apply those lessons elsewhere?
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What can a fictitious small town in “flyover country” teach us about the concentration of power in our economy?
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How a ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court will change how local governments do economic development.
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If we want a Strong Town, we must stop tilting the playing field against the small businesses, against the local entrepreneur.
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Here’s a pragmatic way to close the gap between what businesses know they need to thrive and what their cash-strapped cities can actually provide.
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The challenges facing small businesses require solutions that respond to the real needs (and assets) of the community. Here’s one such solution.
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