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Community Land Use + Economics Group, LLC

The Community Land Use and Economics Group is a small, specialized consulting firm that helps community leaders create vibrant, economically sustainable downtowns and neighborhood commercial centers. We help our clients develop practical and innovative economic development strategies, cultivate independent businesses, identify regulatory and financial barriers, attract new investment, and make solid, forward-looking decisions about the economic uses of older, historic and traditional commercial districts.

We provide a broad range of economic analysis, business development, planning, policy and evaluation services for downtowns and neighborhood commercial districts, including:

 

Economic analysis and business development planning:

Business development plans for commercial districts

Retail market analysis

Business mix and land use analysis

Retail sales gap analysis

Independent business development and recruitment planning

Business profile development

Economic and fiscal impact analysis

Identification and development of retail and small-industry niche markets and clusters

Adaptive use and rehabilitation finance strategies for historic commercial buildings

 

Strategic and implementation planning:

Practical, detailed implementation plans for revitalization programs

Strategic planning for downtown and neighborhood commercial district revitalization initiatives

District marketing and promotion strategies

Small-industry and creative-industry development strategies

Historic preservation and cultural heritage preservation plans

 

Consumer and public opinion surveys:

District intercept surveys

Community-wide surveys

Business surveys

Economic and lifestyle profiling of key customer groups

Focus groups and community input processes

National Downtown Business Survey

 

Policy and program performance:

District performance assessments

Evaluations of district management organizations

Economic benchmarking

Local, regional and state policy planning to stimulate and support revitalization initiatives

 

Training workshops, speeches, and keynote addresses:

We offer speeches and workshops on a broad range of downtown and neighborhood commercial district economic development and economic sustainability topics.

 

Our clients include local and state governments throughout the United States; local, state and national nonprofit organizations; private developers; and government entities in Canada and the United Kingdom.

 

 



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