Reaching for the Future: Creative Finance for Smaller Communities
Reaching for the Future: Creative Finance for Smaller Communities

Reaching for the Future: Creative Finance for Smaller Communities

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS

52 Pages, 8.5 x 11

Formats: Paperback

Paperback, $14.95 (US $14.95) (CA $17.95)

Publication Date: May 2016

ISBN 9780874203769

Price: $14.95
 
 

Overview

How can you turn around your community with limited resources? This publication illustrates how to use various sources of public funds, and public/private partnerships to facilitate dramatic change. Six case studies demonstrate how to overcome urban blight, suburban areas lacking a sense of place, and small cities with failed downtowns. A special section identifies the most common public programs and how to use them.

Author Biography

Maureen McAvey is the former Bucksbaum Family Chair for Retail at the Urban Land Institute (ULI) in Washington, D.C. She concentrates on urban retail and has led several special projects around demographics and future urban development. McAvey holds two master's degrees from University of Minnesota the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Tom Murphy is the ULI Canizaro/Klingbeil Families Chair for Urban Development and is a former mayor of Pittsburgh