Research includes market analysis, customer profiles, retail leakage analysis, community economic analysis and other methods for learning about a downtown’s opportunities.
We designed Community Tourism Development to provide organizations and individuals with a development process and materials to help communities plan, initiate, and expand tourism as a means of long-term economic development.
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Communities naturally ask “are local retail businesses reaching their fullest potential or are there weaknesses that need to be addressed?” In order to address these basic questions communities need to have basic insights into the relative strengths and weaknesses local retail and service markets.
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This manual is designed to help small town revitalization efforts. Building on several basic principles, the manual provides small Pennsylvania communities with a menu of low-cost tools and strategies that they can adopt as they try to revitalize their central business districts.
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This publication includes stories about planning and implementing economic development strategies in 45 small towns with populations of fewer than 10,000 residents.
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This literature review represents the first phase of a long term project focused on identifying economically resilient small city downtowns and ultimately creating a searchable database of successful communities. The purpose of this literature review is to provide a better understanding of indicators defining downtown success.
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The program provides communities different approaches to address economic and community capacity issues. Surveys are predominantly used to gather information needed for decision makers.
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The purpose of the report is to identify action strategies that can be implemented by the Town Board, Planning commission and other committees in Phelps as an aid to the revitalization of their downtown and the community.
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This publication is a guide to beginning a business retention and expansion (BR&E) visitation program.
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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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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.
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