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"Creating Arts Districts as Economic Development Engines"
Arts Districts are being recognized as important revitalization tools that can energize economic development and improve quality of life. How can we make arts districts within a neighborhood setting work? What lessons are we learning here in Cleveland and the inner ring suburbs that can be applied regionally? What are the recurrent challenges and what collaborative efforts and partnerships are needed to make such projects successful?
Our discussion will delve into the value of creating neighborhood-based arts districts or arts-saturated environments to help reinforce and strengthen the triple-bottom line integral to economic development.
Moderator:
Jim Harris, H/L Communications, Marketing & Communications.
Presenters:
James Levin, CPT founder, civic entrepreneur and head of Gordon Square Arts District, and his plans to create an arts district at Gordon Square.
Brian Friedman, Executive Director, Northeast Shores Development Corporation, to discuss the role of CDCs generally in arts district development with a focus on what NSDC is doing in the Waterloo-Beachland neighborhood.
Peggy Spaeth, director of HeightsArts?, and Susanna Neirmann O'Neil, Director of Community Services, City of Cleveland Heights, will talk about how CH and its partnering with groups like HeightsArts? is encouraging neighborhood-based arts initiatives within the city. Learn more. Visit: http://www.heightsarts.org
Read more about these Cleveland leaders and their life-work experience:
Attach:3-22REITUESDAY.pdf
Read the Urban Marketing Collaborative's report on the economic benefits of creating neighborhood based arts districts:
Attach:Economic_Power_of_Arts_Districts.pdf
View Audio Visual Link:rtsp://ion.cwru.edu/input/REI_03_22_05.rm
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