In these hot summer days, it feels like winter will never arrive. But it will be here soon, and there’s plenty local governments, nonprofits, and small businesses can be thinking about now to make their cities vibrant places even in frigid dark days of January.
Cleveland Heights Takes New Approach to Mall Site
State Appalachian Community Grants Spur Downtown Placemaking Projects
The Appalachian Grant Program is a $500 million program providing planning and development grants for communities located in Ohio’s 32-county Appalachian region, utilizing American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funds. The Wonderful Waterfronts Initiative allocated $152 million in 12 counties in the region aimed at expanding access to local waterways, revitalizing historic riverfront downtowns, and creating new tourism and recreational opportunities.
Mansfield Invests In Main Street Corridor To Revitalize Community
You can learn more about this effort over on our Good Ideas! page as part of our continued series highlighting ongoing investments in placemaking and active transportation.
Good Ideas: Youngstown’s SMART2 Network Improves Downtown Infrastructure for Today’s People and Places
Spring Conferences Offer Opportunities to Network, Educate
“Promises Made, Promises Delivered": Transfer of Linden Fresh Market to Neighborhood CDC
In September 2021, Community Development for All People, a CDC based in Columbus’s Southside, opened the Linden Fresh Market. One year later, Community Development for All People (CD4AP) transferred responsibility for operations to a Linden-based CDC, Community of Caring Development Foundation.
Euclid’s Economic Revitalization & Inclusive Outcomes Strategies Get Global Attention
When planning how to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, Euclid prioritized helping local families build wealth through businesses and supporting a thriving downtown. The City committed to implementing a twofold strategy: promote economic revitalization and inclusive outcomes by supporting local, Black- and Brown-owned, small-scale manufacturing businesses to contribute to “more energy and commerce to downtown”.