Community Revitalization Desktop Guide

step one: create a detailed action plan An action plan is a detailed series of action steps designed to attract investment that will meet market demand and community desires. For each task, responsibility, cost and a timeline should be set. Create an action plan that can unleash the power and potential of available land and properties in the redevelopment area. A quality action plan brings together into a single document all ongoing efforts in the redevelopment area, including adaptive reuse of historic buildings, streetscape or façade improvements, redevelopment of brownfields, job attraction and expansion, and tourism projects. Merging these projects into a single plan will help coordinate the efforts, identify areas where one effort will bolster another, and demonstrate the amount of investment and activity going into improving the redevelopment area. The action plan also should provide specifics as to how each of these efforts will fit within the broader goal of reinvigorating the community. The plan must list priorities, timelines, resources, and task responsibility. Finally, an action plan will pull together all the reasons for public and private entities to invest in the redevelopment area, describing available sites, assets that create a market for those sites, and private and public investment to date. It is important to note that many of the best action plans build on earlier plans offered by former elected officials or hired consultants rather than distancing the current effort and starting over. The existence of a detailed plan is a clear sign to developers that the city is proactively and aggressively taking measures to make the community a cost-effective place to do business, and that the city is committed to attracting private capital investment. An action plan should provide detailed answers to questions regarding the community’s goals for the redevelopment area and how they will achieve them: • What are the goals for the action plan? Greencastle (Franklin County) Example Action Step persons Responsible Obtain site control of abandoned historical property in center of town Records Department to determine ownership; County Tax Claim Bureau re tax delinquency; Property Maintenance Bureau re outstanding code violation; Mayor to contact owner; Lawyer to negotiate terms with owner Records Department, Mayor and Lawyer will meet once owner is identified, all communications will be in writing, all parties to be kept informed November 2007 Staff time; Mayor’s time; Budget Municipal control of property How Work Will Be Done When Work Will Be Completed What Resources Are Needed How Success Will Be measured 27 GOAL TWO: pREpARE REDEvELOpmENT AREA FOR mARkET step one: create a detailed action plan

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PA Community Revitalization Desktop Guide Table of Contents How To Attract High Impact Investment to Core Communities Goal One: Choose One Asset-Rich Redevelopment Area Interviews with Pennsylvania Mayors Goal Two: Prepare Redevelopment Area for Market Interviews with Developers who Have Invested in Pennsylvania Cities and Towns Goal Three: Welcome Investment Interviews with Developers who Have Invested in Pennsylvania Cities and Towns Goal Four: Apply Strategies That Work Conclusion

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