The Solutions for America website draws from many resources and studies, highlighting and elaborating upon many strategies for downtown revitalization programs – aim for a multi-functional downtown, create a broad strategy for city revitalization, create partnerships and secure funding sources, attract commercial business, develop the area’s unique cultural qualities, encourage local government involvement, etc. The site provides links to the Downtown Research and Revitalization Center, National Main Street Center, and the University of Wisconsin Extension Service – Center for Community Economic Development. The website also provides the following PDFs:
A Manual for Small Downtowns by the Pennsylvania State University, Center for Rural Pennsylvania.
Downtown Rebound by the The Fannie Mae Foundation and the Brookings Institution.
For more information, please visit: http://www.solutionsforamerica.org/viableecon/downtown-revitalization.html