[OMS_MANAGERS] PPS Story: How a rural Kentucky town reduced its dt vacancy rate from 40% to 0%

[STUART Sheri * OPRD]

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Interesting note from Project for Public spaces. Check out the links as well for additional info on the local food movement....Sheri

  *   How did the small Appalachian city of Corbin, Kentucky reduce its downtown vacancy rate <http://pps.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=2c803e70a8ad33c13a95a1ee6&id=0c52ed6605&e=b00924f787> from 40% to nearly 0% in only three years?
  *   The answer lies in part with a thriving local food movement<http://pps.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=2c803e70a8ad33c13a95a1ee6&id=2fbd3ae25e&e=b00924f787>, the 2013 opening of a new farmers market on Main Street, and a strong community that is willing to go to great lengths to support the both town and each other.
  *   Says Main Street Manager Andy Corbin: "By treating our farmers market as an incubator for agricultural and artisan-based entrepreneurship, we've been able to direct people that are growing into some vacant storefronts downtown, and this has had a multiplying effect ..." The market has helped bring more than 20 new businesses downtown.
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