Downtown Idea Exchange, September 2019
September 1, 2019
- To create a compelling brand for your downtown, avoid these common mistakes
- Seven steps to building a brand with power
- City scrutinizes parking patterns, adjusts rates based on findings
- Small city uses arts to drive decades-long renaissance
- Historic city reimagines its past to move forward
- Millennial SWAT team identifies downtown assets and needs
- Opportunity Zones present potential, risk
- Cities test “smart” garbage cans
- Rewarding downtown workers
- Artistic seating serves many purposes
- Passport program encourages local shopping
- Business attraction utility rate
- Go out to lunch
- Beach volleyball comes downtown
South Orange, NJ, (est. pop. 16,198), had a business-recruitment problem. There was no shortage of tenants interested in setting up shop in South Orange’s downtown — but the village’s rules didn’t allow for many of the types of experience-based tenants that are taking space in downtowns nationwide. The municipality’s rules were "very, very restrictive," says…
