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Resources

DC Vibrant Retail Streets Toolkit

The Vibrant Retail Streets Toolkit, which evaluates the essential elements of outstanding retail areas and offers a customizable toolbox of strategies and implementation steps to improve retail streets. Developed by the DC Office of Planning (OP) and its consultant partner, Streetsense, the Toolkit provides a framework for retail streets in the District to thrive by supporting a dynamic retail experience, retail entrepreneurs and greater collaboration between public and private stakeholders.

Enhancing the city's retail sector is also critical to achieving Mayor Gray's job-creation and economic-development goals for the District. "The District's retail economy is an opportunity for the city to grow its tax base and become more fiscally sound," he said. "Retail can create jobs, provide convenient access to goods and services for residents, generate millions of dollars in new tax revenue and reduce the number of residents leaving the city to buy what they need or want."

Let's Make A Deal

Partnering with the private sector in brownfield development.

Best Practices Municipal Sustainability Planning

Learn how Alberta municipalities implemented leading planning practices that helped them put their plans into action in this webinar hosted by Stratos Inc.

Sustainable Connections: Linking Sustainability and Economic Development Strategies (2011)

Sustainability is a fundamental component of building a strong community, not only in terms of the physical environment, but also for economic prosperity. In recent years many cities across the country have begun providing leadership and advancing economic strategies by incorporating environmental stewardship and sustainability principles throughout programs to promote economic development. This City Practice Brief, made possible through The Home Depot Foundation, NLC's Sustainability Partner, highlights the strategies and experiences of four cities, Denver, Colo., Boston, Mass., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Grand Rapids, Mich., using sustainability to spur economic growth.

Sustainable Connections: Strategies to Support Local Economies (2011)

Economic health and prosperity is a defining component of sustainability. Yet until recently the conversation surrounding sustainability efforts has focused largely on issues of environmental protection and too often presumed to be in competition with, or otherwise tangential to, economic growth. This guide presents five components often associated with sustainability – green space, community design, complete streets, food access and green buildings – that also benefit the local economy and in so doing, may enhance regional resiliency and the ability of cities to compete in the global marketplace. This publication has been made possible through a grant from Wells Fargo.