Small-Scale Manufacturing & Downtown Vibrancy Training

The I-69 Thumb Region will host Ilana Preuss, Founder of Recast City, to provide a training to regional leaders about how to both strengthen the local business community and encourage reinvestment in downtowns by working with small-scale manufacturing businesses. These businesses can help to expand local job opportunities and bring vibrancy to downtown and neighborhood center reinvestment.

The training will cover:
     Who is this business community?
     Why is it important for local economic development?
     How can these businesses help to strengthen a downtown or neighborhood center?
     How do we engage and work with this business community?

     What other stakeholders are key to the success of this work?

 

Local producer and maker industries are a growing asset and a key sector to strengthen local economic resilience. Recast City works with business and civic leaders to understand the local small-scale manufacturing sector, discover the potential for expansive growth, build a strong pipeline for jobs and identify state and federal resources to support this sector. This sector can help grow good paying jobs in the community and add to the vibrancy of a downtown or neighborhood center. Land owners, developers and other city leaders need to get ahead of the demand for dynamic places to live and work in the heart of downtown while also creating opportunities for long-time residents.

Recast City works nationally to help cities, real estate developers and other civic leaders connect to this changing local demand with successful outreach and engagement tools, city redevelopment policies and economic strategies for stronger local economies and great places.

 

 

Registration is open until Friday, February 3, 2017.

Please contact Anna Pinter at (810) 257-3010 with any questions.

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