Housing and Small-Scale Development - Theme for 2022 Main Street Now Conference
Red Wing Downtown Main Street staff will be attending the 2022 Main Street Now conference this May. One of the three central themes for the conference is Housing and Small-Scale Development.
Main Street Now - Housing and Small-Scale Development
Strengthening commercial district housing, density, and mixed-use development is one of the most transformative ways that a community can drive investment in its downtown. Main Street programs and other place-based economic development organizations have an important role to play in advocating, planning, and facilitating community investments to ensure development projects reflect community interests and needs. To do this effectively, Main Street programs must be ambassadors for strategies and incentives, bring community stakeholders together, and build community-wide capacity to address the myriad issues involved in the development process. Sessions will explore how our redevelopment, planning, and preservation processes need to adapt to make it easier and more affordable to add housing downtown and showcase innovations from the field, including upper story housing programs, workforce housing strategies, working with property owners, and more.
Courtney Mailey is a Program Administrator for the Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD), specifically working with the Virginia Main Street (VMS) program. She also is a small-scale real estate developer and cidery owner! Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) is co-hosting the upcoming Main Street Now Conference alongside Main Street America.
Learn more about housing and small-scale development in this article authored by Courtney Mailey where she presents fhe following topics:
Be a Catalytic Convertor
Small Regulatory Changes Can Spark Major Investment
Don’t Just Tell, Show
Technical Assistance for Small-Scale Developers and Property Owners