The Massachusetts Opportunity Zones Academy aimed to ensure that Massachusetts communities are prepared to make the most of the federal Opportunity Zones tax incentive. LOCUS selected six Massachusetts communities to participate in a three-part technical assistance program focusing on the role of Opportunity Zones and Opportunity Funds in stimulating investment in traditionally underserved census tracts. … Continued
Smart Growth America’s arts & culture team provides technical assistance to help communities of all sizes better integrate arts, culture, and creative placemaking into neighborhood revitalization, equitable development, and transportation planning and design efforts. This technical assistance typically takes the form of interactive workshops involving local arts agencies and departments of transportation and are led … Continued
2018 LOCUS New England Leadership Summit October 23-24, 2018 Boston Society of Architects Boston, MA
Complete Streets, Complete Communities Distance Learning Series The Complete Streets, Complete Communities distance learning series is a set of seven online modules designed for public health and transportation professionals to learn about how to influence community health outcomes through local and regional transportation policies and practices, as well as about opportunities to collaborate across both … Continued
Rebuild America’s Neighborhoods April 22-24, 2018 National Press Club, Washington DC
P3 is for Partnerships, Placemaking, and Policy April 23-25, 2017 National Press Club, Washington DC
About these workshops: Smart growth strategies can help small towns build durable local economies, reduce public costs, and preserve the features that make them unique. And reinvesting in existing places can actually be even more impactful in smaller communities than in big cities. Small communities have fewer financial resources to work with, so even modest efforts … Continued
Coined by Ann Markusen and Anne Gadwa Nicodemus for the National Endowment for the Arts in 2010, creative placemaking refers to the process in which “partners from public, private, non-profit, and community sectors strategically shape the physical and social character of a neighborhood, town, city, or region around arts and cultural activities.” Creative placemaking advocates … Continued