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Overview: Brick and mortar retail, especially during the pandemic, is changing drastically but our downtown recruitment efforts aren’t keeping up. These shared spaces and new real estate models lower the barriers for micro-businesses to grow and are an essential way to increase opportunities for women and product business owners of color. Join this session to learn about why these changes are happening and discuss key business sectors to tap like small-scale manufacturing. Engage in a discussion about the range of shared spaces opening with varying retail models – art co-ops, shared kitchen, community video/photos studios, makerspaces, micro-retail and more. The speakers will also discuss funding mechanisms, how to use ARPA dollars to achieve these outcomes and policy mechanisms to allow and support these uses.
Learning Objectives:
- Develop resiliency in your city by expanding the traditional view of retail to include small-scale manufacturing, food production, and other maker-oriented activities.
- Strengthen your retail market and reduce vacancies with shared spaces, co-ops, pop-ups, online sales, and other creative economic development options.
- Learn how to use mission-driven projects to spur social change, lower barriers to entry for historically excluded groups, and increase diversity within your retail sector.
- Learn how to bypass supply chain issues by investing in circular economy frameworks and small-scale manufacturing within your region.
Friday, December 3, 2021 | 11:15am ET (8:15am PT)
Domain: Economic Development
Pricing: IDA Members: Free | Nonmembers: $40
CM | 1
AICP members can earn Certification Maintenance (CM) credits for this webinar. More information about AICP’s CM program can be found here.
Advancing Places is an online series aimed at empowering IDA members with the solutions needed to address the most critical urban issues of the day. This session will include a moderated Q&A and will be recorded for member and nonmember use in the future.
Speakers:
- Carrie Gartner, Executive Director, The Loop Community Improvement District (Columbia, MO)
- Skyra Rideaux, Owner, Rideaux Economic Development Co. (Austin, TX)
- Ilana Preuss, Founder & CEO, Recast City (Takoma Park, MD)
Moderator:
- Carolyn Dellutri, Director of Professional Development, International Downtown Association (IDA)
Carrie Gartner
Executive Director, The Loop CID (Columbia, MO)
Carrie Gartner received her B.A. and M.A. in Speech Communication from California State University, Fullerton and her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Utah. Dr. Gartner has over 20 years of experience in urban design, economic development, and marketing. Gartner was formerly the executive director of The District, an urban management organization dedicated to promoting and beautifying a 50-square block area of downtown Columbia. She’s now turned her attention to a neglected commercial corridor in Columbia. The Loop has a 10-year plan to revitalize the corridor and was recently named an Etsy Maker City for their efforts to encourage and attract local, small-scale manufacturers to The Loop.
Skyra Rideaux
Skyra Rideaux is an equity consultant, inclusive economic development expert, and a climate and environmental justice advocate who specializes in hyperlocal community development. She has worked with mid-sized and large municipalities to "localize" redevelopment and revitalization efforts and create research-based reinvestment strategies in historically excluded BIPOC communities. As a life-long public servant and community advocate with more than 15 years of experience in community and economic development, she is known among her peers as an "idea architect" and has pioneered dozens of community-centered projects addressing equity, inclusive economic development, and civic engagement.
Ilana Preuss
Founder & CEO, Recast City
Ilana Preuss is the Founder of Recast City LLC, a consulting firm that works with real estate developers, city and other civic leaders to integrate space for small-scale producers into redevelopment projects and place-based economic development. With over 20 years of experience in community development, Ms. Preuss projects at Recast City span the country. Through work with real estate developers, foundations, city planning and economic development offices, and mayors, the projects go from idea to plan to action to build great places with vibrant economies.
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