Summary
May 2020 — Three-part discussion with the author:
- Planning and Consultants
- Power of RFPs to attract developers
- Formation of a BID for organizing your community
- Power of Feasibility studies—Housing, Retail, Office
- Build a Strategic Plan with community input and quantitative goals.
- Collaboration with large institutions and private developers
- Revised Downtown Strategic Plan for the next ten years
- Importance of saving our architectural heritage
- Not-For-Profits owning Real Estate as an income generator
- Arts, Dining and Entertainment that drive Downtown Revitalization
- Importance of Workforce Housing—
- Adaptive Reuse—Apartments and Incubator Space
- Collaboration vs. Competition—Creating Density in downtown.
- Tax incentives and new hotels
- Zoning changes—Creating Density
- Creating the environment for a New Bank Building
- Drivers of Downtown Revitalization—Arts, Dining and Entertainment and a refreshed Ithaca Commons pedestrian mall
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