Artistic and cultural activities strengthen communities, particularly when they reveal and celebrate a community’s character and identity. Creative placemaking can spark positive social, physical and economic development of neighborhoods through arts and culture.
Safety is critical to attracting visitors to commercial corridors and enabling business districts to thrive. Strategies for improving the sense of safety on commercial corridors are essential to allowing local economies to flourish.
Anchor institutions are health care, civic, educational, cultural, and religious institutions that can serve as economic engines for their neighborhoods. They are anchored in their communities and tend to have significant assets that can support commercial corridor strategies.
A compilation of economic development strategies from LISC sites across the country. These tools were developed to respond to specific community needs and can be adapted to other contexts.