Downtown & Main Street Archives - Community and Economic Development in North Carolina and Beyond

Category: Downtown & Main Street

» Seats on the Street: Changes to Outdoor Dining in the Time of COVID-19

» Local Government as Lender: Emergency Loans for Small Businesses

» Downtown Facade Improvement Programs

» Kannapolis, NC: Strategic Vision, Financial Planning, Development

» Local Governments: Financial Feasibility Analysis for Your Revitalization Projects

» Key Elements of Successful Downtowns

» The State of the Debate: Two-Way Street Conversion

» Combining Multiple Property Tax Exclusions for Re-Development Projects

» University Contributions to Municipal Service Districts in NC

» Maintenance of vacant or neglected commercial buildings: options for NC local governments

» Ordinance Enforcement Basics

» Downtown Revitalization Achieved through Transit Development: Raleigh’s Union Station and the Warehouse District

» How Asheville Revitalized its Downtown: Part II

» Multiplex in Morganton: The Mimosa Theatre

» Legal and Business Reasons Why Downtown Development Programs Should Involve Secured Loans—Not Grants

» The Grasshoppers’ Stadium is a Homerun for Downtown Greensboro

» Conveyance of property in a public-private partnership for a “downtown development project”

» How a Mezzanine Loan Can Reduce Equity Requirements, Boost Returns, and Attract Investment to a Redevelopment Project

» One City, Two Public Markets: Case Studies of Success and Failure in Portland, Maine

» Library Living? Integrating a library into a mixed-use development

» Retail Incubators and Main Street Revitalization: Part 1

» Live Long and Prosper: Does CED Impact How Long We Live?

» Follow Procedures Prior to Acquiring Property for Redevelopment

» Public-Private Partnerships: Universities & Private Developers

» Millennials Entering the Real Estate Market

» The Economic Impact of Downtown Courthouses

» Changes to Municipal Service District (MSD) Authority

» Local Government Economic Development Powers “Clarified”

» DFI Case Study: Attracting Private Investment for the Redevelopment of a Downtown Parking Deck

» The Downtown School

» Ambitious Plans and Achievable Actions

» Food Trucks, Waste, and Economic Opportunity

» Sale of Historic Structures by NC Local Governments for Redevelopment

» Many Mini-Bonds in the Mile High City

» The Right Crowd: How Two Entrepreneurs Creatively Financed a Craft Brewery in Asheboro, NC

» Downtown Parks as Economic Development

» Development Finance Initiative (DFI) helps revitalize NC towns – University Gazette

» Promoting Communities and Downtowns with Paid, Owned, and Earned Media

» Acquiring real property for redevelopment—can local governments keep it confidential?

» Streetcars Need More Than Desire: Why Streetcars Are So Popular and What Streetcar Corridors Need to Be Successful

» The Branding of Downtown Districts

» The Potential Impact of Baby Boomer Housing and Community Preferences on Downtown Revitalization

» Land Banks in Action: Genesee County, Michigan

» How a North Carolina Local Government Can Operate a Land Bank for Redevelopment

» Historic rehabilitation partnerships given “safe harbor” by IRS

» Using a Crisis to Localize Your Rural Economy

» Measuring Economic Impact of Historic Rehabilitation