Best Practices
“People were a little bit nervous to embrace it in the beginning,” said Milner. “Our last mills — we’re a mill town — closed in the early 70s and there’s been no real movement since then to reinvent ourselves.”
Outdoor recreation offers opportunities for sustainable economic and community development across the United States. Through interviews with over 60 practitioners - including elected officials, land managers, economic development specialists and business leaders - the Outdoor Recreation Roundtable has developed this toolkit to help your community build an outdoor recreation economy of its own.
Main Street Regenerators are needed to accelerate, and share the benefits of, the economic recovery. The notion that a quick revival of Main Streets will be driven by millions of individual small businesses acting on their own defies the laws of finance
Complete streets have significant, often untapped, potential for boosting the economies of small or mid-sized downtowns. That potential is a silver lining of poor transportation planning that has damaged main streets for generations, often funded by state departments of transportation. If states reverse these policies, using normal transportation dollars, we should see local economies respond