Community Insights - Bringing business back to Main Street

Community Insights™ is a powerful program for stimulating revitalization and economic growth in communities large and small. It provides strategic plans tailored for your community that will help you attract new businesses, retain existing businesses, and market your destination to potential retailers, developers, and business owners. It is a thorough, realistic, fact-based and effective tool for stimulating your economy and revitalizing commercial neighborhoods.

Growth by choice, not chance.

Many communities have made significant investments in streetscape improvements only to have very attractive, but still empty streets. Some wait for developers to show up, believing "if you build it, they will come". Yet, most redevelopment site plans, although attractive and appealing, include no specific plans for recruiting appropriate businesses to fill the space.

Community Insights™ provides the information, strategies, and resources you need to develop a vision for your downtown, build consensus among stakeholders, and clarify opportunities. We then help focus your efforts on recruiting the businesses that are best suited to your community or specific redevelopment projects, retaining existing businesses and helping them prosper, and creating a destination that brings shoppers back again and again.

Learn more about how a Community Insights™ study works...

Our brochure, "Bringing Business Back to Main Street", as well as our presentation at the LISC Urban Forum 2006, the July 2006 NJ DRI presentation and August 2006 LISC webcast are available in PDF format. Click on the images below to download.