Downtown and Business District Market Analysis Toolbox
The market analysis toolbox helps you study downtown business and real estate development opportunities in an era of large format stores and online shopping.
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Topic: Business Development 
Business development includes business recruitment, retention, and attraction. It can range from arts and entertainment to retail, restaurants, and services. Specific topics such as entrepreneurship, co-op businesses, farmers markets, and buy-local programs are included.
Downtown Revitalization Asset Opportunity Exercise
This Extension PowerPoint exercise helps community leaders explore possibilities for the revitalization of their downtowns. Starting with assets in a typical downtown – some retail businesses with vacant second stories, empty stores, and vacant lots, the last slide shows 33 possible strategies that can be employed to revitalize a downtow
Read More...Downtown Economics
Through a series of PDF articles, this toolbox offers ideas on how to create a vibrant downtown in a small community. The publications analyze the benefits and difficulties of downtowns on topics ranging from competing with Big Box Stores to space utilization.
Read More...Innovative Downtown Businesses
This resource is designed to provide innovative ideas for local business expansion and recruitment efforts. It also serves as a companion resource to the Downtown & Business District Market Analysis toolbox by providing to the user examples of thriving businesses in similar communities.
Read More...Strategic Planning for Cooperative Businesses
Intense planning exercise to help businesses establish a strategy and plan for sustainable growth.
Read More...Business Development-Entrepreneurship
This program is consists of five instructional workshops held in various communities around the state. Participants receive a total of fifteen hours of specific instruction, facilitate group discussion, internet demonstrations and guest presentations
Read More...Business Retention & Expansion
The Ohio Business Retention & Expansion (BR&E) Program provides the resources, training, and tools to develop the capacity of the community to better understand its economy.
Read More...Retail Market Analysis
Retail market analysis is a tool for identifying retail market trends within a local community. While the analysis focuses specifically on the performance of local retail markets, information on the broader demographic and economic trends within the region is critical to understanding current and future changes in these retail markets.
Read More...Extension-Led Economic Development Model-A Recipe for Success
Extension-led economic development organizations, because they are tied to university resources grounded in research and education and without local jurisdictional bias, can build public trust and cooperative partnerships that help to broaden funding support for economic development programming.
Read More...Business Retention & Expansion Program
A healthy local economy and an improved business climate are the goals of the Business Retention and Expansion (BR&E) Visitation program. The program promotes job growth by helping communities identify the concerns and barriers to survival and growth facing local businesses.
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