Arcade: A Strategic Plan for Downtown
Compelling
Reasons for Downtown Revitalization
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Main Street is a symbol of community economic health, local quality of life, pride, and community history. These are all factors in economic development and professional recruitment.
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It’s much easier to attract investment to ANY area of the community when you can point with pride to a vibrant center
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A vital Main Street retains and creates jobs, which means a stronger tax base. Long-term revitalization establishes capable businesses that use public services and provide tax revenues for the community.
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Main Street is a good incubator for new small businesses - the building blocks of a healthy economy.
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A vital Main Street area helps to use land, infrastructure, and tax dollars efficiently by concentrating activities and creating a ‘critical mass’ of complementary uses
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A healthy Main Street protects property values in surrounding residential neighborhoods.
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The traditional commercial district is an ideal location for independent businesses.
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A revitalized Main Street increases the community's options for goods and services, including basic staples, professional services, or other functions such as housing and entertainment.
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Main Street provides an important civic forum, where citizens can congregate and interact. Parades, special events and celebrations held there reinforce the intangible sense of community. Private developments such as strip malls can and do restrict free speech and assembly.
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Many Main Street districts become tourist attractions by virtue of the character of buildings, location (often near waterways), selection of unique businesses, and events held there.
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Last Modified: September 15, 2010