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profiles of Austin, TX, Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, and four Manhattan districts
profiles of Austin, TX, Nashville, TN, St. Louis, MO, and four Manhattan districts
Austin, TX Project Start: 2003
In 2008, eco-concious retailer Patagonia opened its only Texas store on Austin's Congress Avenue. Click on the photo at right to learn more about how Downtown Works has helped Austin "get its' retail hummin'."
In 2008, eco-concious retailer Patagonia opened its only Texas store on Austin's Congress Avenue. Click on the photo at right to learn more about how Downtown Works has helped Austin "get its' retail hummin'."
Nashville, TN Project Start: 2007
Downtown Works began working in Nashville in 2007; within a year, 20 new retailers had opened in Music City USA. Click on the photo at right to read about how Nashville is "hitting the high notes" with retail.
Downtown Works began working in Nashville in 2007; within a year, 20 new retailers had opened in Music City USA. Click on the photo at right to read about how Nashville is "hitting the high notes" with retail.
St. Louis, MO Project Start: 2002
Between 2003 and 2008, over 100 new stores and restaurants opened their doors in Arch City. Click on the photo at right to learn more about how Downtown Works has helped St. Louis become a "retail gateway."
Between 2003 and 2008, over 100 new stores and restaurants opened their doors in Arch City. Click on the photo at right to learn more about how Downtown Works has helped St. Louis become a "retail gateway."
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Manhattan Bryant Park, Grand Central Partnership, 34th Street, Times Square
Downtown Works founder McCauley based the firm's method on consultant assignments in the Big Apple executed by Rodgers & McCauley. Click on the photo at right to learn about their work in four key Manhattan districts.
Downtown Works founder McCauley based the firm's method on consultant assignments in the Big Apple executed by Rodgers & McCauley. Click on the photo at right to learn about their work in four key Manhattan districts.
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in brief recent Downtown Works projects include:
Client: Downtown Center Business Improvment District, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles is an international fashion leader, and the people of L.A. love to shop, yet the city's downtown is not where they'd find trendy stores to patronize. A burgeoning restaurant scene has recently emerged; seeking to capitalize on this and other developments of the last decade, the Downtown Center Business Improvement District this year hired Downtown Works to develop a retail strategy for Downtown L.A. Recruitment efforts are just getting started...stay tuned for downtown's retail transformation in coming years!
Client: Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District, Business Association, Parking Foundation and Community Association, Chestnut Hill, PA
This year our team completed a strategy for the Chestnut Hill district of Philadelphia, which boasts affluent, well-educated residents who live in some of the city's grandest dwellings. At one time Chestnut Hill's rents were on par with those in downtown Philadelphia, but they did not keep pace across the last decade as the district's shop and restaurant mix faltered. The recruiter we identified and trained this summer has already garnered interest in locating in Chestnut Hill from some of Philadelphia's top independent operators, and we have no doubt this program will be a great success.
Client: Downtown Sacramento Partnership, Sacramento, CA
Last year our team was hired by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership to bring retail life back to the heart of Sacramento's downtown. A key recommendation in this effort was to reopen K Street-once downtown's retail spine-to vehicular traffic. It's transition in the 1960s to a pedestrian mall (in 1987 transit was added) dealt a heavy blow to the shops and restaurants that once lined the street, and it has been marked by more vacant than occupied space for quite some time. (Other U.S. cities shared the same fate after closing retail streets to cars-at one time there were more than 200 cities with pedestrian or transit-only streets; today less than thirty remain, and only a handful of these are successful). The City of Sacramento is working to have K Street ready for cars by mid-to-late 2011.
Client: Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, Milwaukee, WI
Downtown Milwaukee has much attractive, historic building stock. It also has a mall developed west of the river in the late 80s; following brief success it had a lingering negative impact on street vitality, and overcoming this is a challenge. Downtown Works identified an area, just east of the river, to focus retail revitalization efforts and recruitment is underway. How the mall is redeveloped will be key to the vitality of the west side.
Client: High I Partnership (a collaboration of Dickinson College and downtown stakeholders), Carlisle, PA
Carlisle is a charming college town with beautiful building stock. Over the last decade it had lost much of its independent retail with the arrival of big box stores. Downtown Works created a strategy to reestablish Carlisle's independent retail sector; today, recruitment efforts are well underway as the retail seeks out uses compliant with the merchandise mix plan.
Los Angeles is an international fashion leader, and the people of L.A. love to shop, yet the city's downtown is not where they'd find trendy stores to patronize. A burgeoning restaurant scene has recently emerged; seeking to capitalize on this and other developments of the last decade, the Downtown Center Business Improvement District this year hired Downtown Works to develop a retail strategy for Downtown L.A. Recruitment efforts are just getting started...stay tuned for downtown's retail transformation in coming years!
Client: Chestnut Hill Business Improvement District, Business Association, Parking Foundation and Community Association, Chestnut Hill, PA
This year our team completed a strategy for the Chestnut Hill district of Philadelphia, which boasts affluent, well-educated residents who live in some of the city's grandest dwellings. At one time Chestnut Hill's rents were on par with those in downtown Philadelphia, but they did not keep pace across the last decade as the district's shop and restaurant mix faltered. The recruiter we identified and trained this summer has already garnered interest in locating in Chestnut Hill from some of Philadelphia's top independent operators, and we have no doubt this program will be a great success.
Client: Downtown Sacramento Partnership, Sacramento, CA
Last year our team was hired by the Downtown Sacramento Partnership to bring retail life back to the heart of Sacramento's downtown. A key recommendation in this effort was to reopen K Street-once downtown's retail spine-to vehicular traffic. It's transition in the 1960s to a pedestrian mall (in 1987 transit was added) dealt a heavy blow to the shops and restaurants that once lined the street, and it has been marked by more vacant than occupied space for quite some time. (Other U.S. cities shared the same fate after closing retail streets to cars-at one time there were more than 200 cities with pedestrian or transit-only streets; today less than thirty remain, and only a handful of these are successful). The City of Sacramento is working to have K Street ready for cars by mid-to-late 2011.
Client: Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, Milwaukee, WI
Downtown Milwaukee has much attractive, historic building stock. It also has a mall developed west of the river in the late 80s; following brief success it had a lingering negative impact on street vitality, and overcoming this is a challenge. Downtown Works identified an area, just east of the river, to focus retail revitalization efforts and recruitment is underway. How the mall is redeveloped will be key to the vitality of the west side.
Client: High I Partnership (a collaboration of Dickinson College and downtown stakeholders), Carlisle, PA
Carlisle is a charming college town with beautiful building stock. Over the last decade it had lost much of its independent retail with the arrival of big box stores. Downtown Works created a strategy to reestablish Carlisle's independent retail sector; today, recruitment efforts are well underway as the retail seeks out uses compliant with the merchandise mix plan.
