I am an experienced economic & community revitalization professional with a specialization in historic downtowns.
I love working in historic downtowns, but understand that small communities can lack the resources to invest in meaningful revitalization. Therefore, I offer fractional and hourly development services.
Partnering with local governments and mission-driven organizations to renew and revitalize communities, I can:
Help your community’s governing body discern and set its downtown’s direction.
Determine why old plans sat on the shelf, and reinvigorate those efforts with experienced, professional staffing.
Form partnerships to support projects and community outcomes, even in challenging environments.
Project manage economic & community development efforts to ensure ongoing effort without staffing costs.
Market the community as a location worthy of investment and commitment.
Building a Coherent Community
My Coherent Community approach combines physical revitalization around infrastructure and building stock and community programming for activation/engagement/empowerment. I help communities find the right partners, the right projects, and the right resources to become attractive places for people to live, work, and experience.
Specializations and Past Work
Recreation-based economic development
Trails, rivers, oceans, cultural sites, regional partnerships.
Blight management, code enforcement, brownfields.
Capital attraction via private attraction, public-private partnerships, grant-based development, c3-partnerships, faith-based partnerships
Destination marketing (regional focus)
“Off the Shelf”
“What’s the Big Idea?”
“What are we missing here?”
“Why isn’t this happening?”
“Am I talking to myself”
“Where’s the money?”
“Chart a path”
“Circle the wagons”
Place-based economic visioning & strategy
Strategic downtown revitalization and revitalization planning
Community marketing and attraction
Brownfield strategy and redevelopment
Community grantmaking and program management
Development services and capital attraction
Partnership development for project delivery (public-private/public-nonprofit/public-religious)
