[OMS_MANAGERS] We welcome your ideas on a interactive session at the OMS Conference

[Ellen Huntingdon]

Our city has a lot of trouble getting our downtown business owners really involved and excited about anything. We also have trouble getting business owners to cooperate and communicate with each other. Tips and advice in this respect would be greatly appreciated!

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From: OMS_MANAGERS [mailto:oms_managers-bounces at listsmart.osl.state.or.us] On Behalf Of STUART Sheri * OPRD
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 11:19 AM
To: Oregon Main Street program managers
Subject: [OMS_MANAGERS] We welcome your ideas on a interactive session at the OMS Conference

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We will be wrapping up the Oregon Main Street Conference, Oct. 4-6, in Oregon City, with an interactive session to Trouble Shoot Issues on Main Street. The idea is to help a community address an issue in their downtown. In 5-minutes or less, towns will present their issue to a panel of experts and then the experts will brainstorm solutions. Our awesome facilitator is Michele Reeves from Civilis Consulting - you might know her as a presenter at several of our previous conferences. We have some ideas submitted from a few communities already, but we still have room for a few more. You can respond over the listserv or email me directly at: sheri.stuart at oregon.gov<mailto:sheri.stuart at oregon.gov>

Here's some of the issues towns have mentioned (we welcome feedback on these topics as well - which are you most interested in hearing some ideas and ways to assist?):


*         Property owners that use historic buildings as "storage"

*         Strategies for filling up vacant buildings in an historic small Oregon town.

*         Creating a collaborative relationship between Downtown Associations, Chambers, Visitors Centers & regional tourism NGOs when the missions overlap and the players see the dynamic as a "zero-sum-game"

*         Funding a downtown organization to include a paid downtown manager on a stable basis. What are the tools and how are they employed to convince skeptics?

*         Educating local business owners on running their business like a business and not like a hobby.  (i.e., meeting the needs of the community and not the personal needs of the owner.

Regards, Sheri
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