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9NEWS Invites DCI Members to an educational workshop + lunch with Colorado’s leading lifestyle show, Colorado & Company. The workshop will take place at the 9NEWS station on 7/23. Hear from industry experts, tour the studio, and learn how to effectively utilize the power of TV to showcase what’s going on in your community.Professional headshots will be offered for you & your group free of charge and enjoy a special offer just for DCI members. Colorado & Company reaches over 20,000 households on average daily (picture the size of Empower field filled with fans!) Join us to learn more! Email (Pick any of the language from above, plus some logistic details): Please RSVP directly to kim.roose@9news.com with your number of attendees + any dietary restrictions, and she will forward you over day of arrival details. Let her know if you have additional questions. Special offer includes a Buy One Get One Free Segment to use anytime in the year, PLUS free billboards to air during the CO&CO hour only for DCI members in attendance. There is a virtual option to attend for members 25 miles+ from Denver. Link to CO&CO sizzle reel to get to know the show more!

9NEWS Invites DCI Members to an educational workshop + lunch with Colorado’s leading lifestyle show, Colorado & Company. The workshop will take place at the 9NEWS station on 7/23. Hear from industry experts, tour the studio, and learn how to effectively utilize the power of TV to showcase what’s going on in your community.Professional headshots will be offered for you & your group free of charge and enjoy a special offer just for DCI members.Colorado & Company reaches over 20,000 households on average daily (picture the size of Empower field filled with fans!)Join us to learn more! - Please RSVP directly to kim.roose@9news.com with your number of attendees + any dietary restrictions, and she will forward you over day of arrival details. Let her know if you have additional questions. - Special offer includes a Buy One Get One Free Segment to use anytime in the year, PLUS free billboards to air during the CO&CO hour only for DCI members in attendance. - There is a virtual option to attend for members 25 miles+ from Denver.

Boosting Community Buy In | July 24 9AM DESCRIPTION | What steps can you take at the beginning of the process to make sure the right people are involved, that they’re working from the same information, and plan for change and adapt throughout the lifecycle of your project? Review planning templates and a project scoresheet to help identify your best available sites and get your team on the same page early. SPEAKER | Jim Heid PROGRAM OVERVIEW | DCI is pleased to invite you to participate to learn more about an opportunity to serve as a pilot community, free of charge, in a program with access to extensive training, workshops, and technical assistance to consider community revitalization and property redevelopment. The revised Colorado Challenge Accelerator Program will help establish a list of opportunity sites for investment, build a stronger community team to connect public and private resources to get things done and help shape a funding strategy with a timeline and talking or proposal points to share with funders.

Join us tomorrow!! EXPLORING RETAIL RECRUITMENT: SUPERIOR CASE STUDY July 16 9am on Zoom DCI invites back our Recruiting Retail team of Julie Jacoby, Stephanie Otte, and Jill Mendoza to review the process and numbers that Downtown Superior is using to develop a recruitment strategy. The webinar will highlight both the tips shared in past sessions with the actual findings from the Superior case study. The session will be a webinar pre-event to prepare participants for the exploratory in person visit the following week. REGISTER TODAY! https://lnkd.in/gs_C_tvu

No one in their right mind would ask an architect to design them a house with lots and lots of hallways. There is a saying: Hallways and corridors are a waste of space. This is because the real stuff of living happens in the rooms, not in the corridors. Cities, like buildings, have two types of space: exchange space and movement space. In a building, the exchange spaces are the rooms, and the movement spaces are the corridors and hallways. To reduce the amount of corridors in a house, architects remove the walls and create a dual-purpose space — a room that can be used for exchanges or to access other rooms. Early city builders created streets as dual-purpose spaces — an outdoor living room for exchange and a room that could be used to access other exchange spaces. There was an internal genius to this. People walking down the street (on their way to a planned exchange) would be involved in a range of spontaneous exchanges with the people using the space as a room. Treating streets as outdoor living rooms that serve both an exchange and a movement function greatly increases the potential for spontaneous exchanges, the evolutionary lifeblood of the city. I have done hundreds of audits on public places, and again and again I find that they feel like a corridor, not a room. (Our being a mobility-centric culture subconsciously shapes the way we create our public spaces.) The movement function dominates, even in pedestrian areas. A lot of attention is given to ‘the carpet’ (paving). The seating serves the movement function (its purpose is to rest weary legs), rather than the function of facilitating social interaction. The space is full of traffic artefacts: white lines, signs and bollards. As I often point out in my lectures, the quickest way to turn your lounge room into a corridor is to paint white lines on the carpet to show people where they should walk. Behaviour in a room is controlled by how the furniture is placed. Often the most important element in turning a space into a place isn’t what you put in, but what you take out. If you know how to create a great room in your home, then you know how to create a great public space. Start by taking out the things that make the room feel more like a corridor than an intimate space for social exchange. For more placemaking secrets see my latest book, 'Revitalise Your Town Centre in 7 Weeks or Less'. Visit my website listed on the picture below. #Placemaking #urbanism #urbandesign #towncentre

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Every #place is different, but there are some important common ingredients for creating a great public space. Project for Public Spaces (PPS) began consistently using the term placemaking in the mid-1990s to describe its innovative people-and-place-based approach. It was informed by the work of placemaking pioneers like #JaneJacobs and #WilliamWhyte, who introduced groundbreaking ideas on the social and cultural importance of lively neighborhoods and inviting public spaces. In evaluating thousands of public spaces around the world, PPS found that to be successful, they generally share the following four qualities: 1. they are accessible 2. people are engaged in activities there 3. the space is comfortable and has a good image; 4. it is a sociable place: one where people meet each other and take people when they come to visit. Another thing we'd add to this list is people who care for and look after the space. This could range from informal care, like picking up a piece of rubbish, or professional care like #placemanagement, #cleaning, #maintenance etc. Even the most beautiful and well designed space soon feels neglected if there are no professionals and/or local people to care for it. The graphic below shows some of the important ingredients of great places, as judged by everyday people all around the world. Thanks to the ACT Government for providing this photo of the Dickson Shops in Canberra, Australia. Learn more about the need for and how to improve public spaces and create more connected, resilient #neighbourhoods at https://lnkd.in/e-5dtiab. Town Team Movement PlacemakingX Nyah Donaldson Dot Hepburn Anna Chauvel Emma Snow Dean Cracknell Ethan Kent Malcolm Snow Nic Plunkett-Cole Andy Sharp Jason ‘Jhay’ Mann City Renewal Authority Suburban Land Agency Dionysus David Caffery Obelia Tait Christina Harmsen David Snyder Yanling Lin David Martin Rik Adamski Ryan Smolar Guillermo Bernal Conservation Volunteers Australia Audrey Barucchi

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SHAPING POLICY TO FIT THE VISION | Aug 7 9AM | Webinar DCI is pleased to invite you to participate to learn more about an opportunity to serve as a pilot community, free of charge, in a program with access to extensive training, workshops, and technical assistance to consider community revitalization and property redevelopment. The 2024 Colorado Challenge Accelerator Program will help establish a list of opportunity sites for investment, building a stronger community team to connect public and private resources to get things done, and help shape a funding strategy with a timeline and talking or proposals points to share with funders. DESCRIPTION | This webinar will teach you how comprehensive and strategic plans turn into policy, capturing community vision and attitude. How can your policies create a predictable environment for investors, town staff, and your community? We review how best practice policy-writing turns your community vision into results. SPEAKER | Jim Heid LEARNING LESSONS Building community consensus and sustaining engagement through private-public partnerships, committee ownership, financing mechanisms. Process for turning vision into regulation. Tailoring example policies to fit community goals: do’s + don’ts. Suggestions for durable, iterative policies. Communicating predictable policies to the private sector. REGISTER: https://lnkd.in/ghCXztFw

Boosting Community Buy In | July 24 9AM DESCRIPTION | What steps can you take at the beginning of the process to make sure the right people are involved, that they’re working from the same information, and plan for change and adapt throughout the lifecycle of your project? Review planning templates and a project scoresheet to help identify your best available sites and get your team on the same page early. SPEAKER | Jim Heid PROGRAM OVERVIEW | DCI is pleased to invite you to participate to learn more about an opportunity to serve as a pilot community, free of charge, in a program with access to extensive training, workshops, and technical assistance to consider community revitalization and property redevelopment. The revised Colorado Challenge Accelerator Program will help establish a list of opportunity sites for investment, build a stronger community team to connect public and private resources to get things done and help shape a funding strategy with a timeline and talking or proposal points to share with funders.