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• SMALL CITY BIG IDEAS - DOWNTOWN INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS

  • When
    09/10/2019
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    9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Manitou Art Center (MAC) 513 Manitou Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

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  SMALL TOWN BIG IDEAS

  Manitou Springs Downtown Institute for Business

  Across the country and the world communities are realizing to the power of the creative economy and experiential business. Manitou Springs has been supporting creative entrepreneurs before it was trendy, and in partnership with Downtown Colorado, Inc. (DCI) and APA Colorado will share the tools, resources, and networks essential to building the systems to feed the business ecosystem.  

  Join us for this innovative day in collaboration with the Manitou Arts Center and Start Up Colorado Springs!

  Registration included lunch and refreshments. 

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• Deal Making with Urban Renewal - Western Slope Redevelopment & Reinvestment Symposium

  • Start
    09/16/2019
  • End
    09/17/2019
  • Location
    Montrose, CO

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  Join us for part two of the Western Slope Redevelopment & Reinvestment Symposium: Dealmaking with Urban Renewal! participants will continue and build on the conversations held at the symposium in Durango in May. You can read a recap of that event on our blog. 

  This workshop in the series will focus on strategies to make successful deals with urban renewal. Join us to continue the conversation and build on URA topics. We will focus on project proforma, closing the funding gap, successful negotiating, among other redevelopment topics. Agenda will be relased soon. 

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• Downtown Districts & Collaboration in Silverton

  • When
    09/18/2019
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    10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Location
    Silverton Town Hall

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  DCI is pleased to continue to partner with the Town of Silverton as we establish a strategy plan to activate the downtown core and support the Southwest Corridor initiative towards a sustainable business ecosystem. With supportive public-private partnerships. Our plan will evolve from the work of the Silverton Challenge from the Colorado Challenge Accelerator Program. The Colorado Challenge Program is a unique team building accelerator focused on establishing a plan of work and proposal for funding over the course of twelve months. and continue for twelve months to establish a vision and plan for a sustainable and thriving community. A mid-day workshop for businesses, property owners, and partners to consider the benefits of business collaboration and resources and tools for managing Silverton’s Downtown Business district. Partners include USDA Rural Development and the Grand Junction Partnership.

  10:00 AM Meet and Greet 

  Meet your Downtown peers and find out what they are working on.

  10:15 AM Welcome and Introductions

  10:45 AM State of Silverton and the Southwest Corridor Challenge

  10:45 - 11:30 AM Downtown Collaboration: Purpose, Process, Partners

  Informal collaboration and Program concepts. Katherine Correll

  11:30 - 12:30 PM Downtown Financing Mechanisms 

  Tell me more about the alphabet soup - BID, DDA, URA, 501c(3)

  Brandon Stam, Grand Junction Partnership

  12:30 -1:15 PM Project Case Study

  Tell me more about the alphabet soup - BID, DDA, URA, 501c(3)

  1:15 – 2:00 PM Closing & Next Steps

  
  

  
  

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• Increasing Customer Traffic and Revenue as a Destination Business PRESENTATION

  • When
    10/16/2019
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    6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
  • Location
    Morgan Community College, 920 Barlow Rd, Fort Morgan, CO - Founders Room

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  Join the Brush! Chamber Main Street,  Morgan County partners, and Downtown Colorado, Inc. in presenting a Jon Schallert discussion on Destination principles and their specific application to the community and individual businesses. This keynote presentation is FREE - open to the public and kicks off with a networking reception at 6:00PM with the presentation starting at 6:30PM. Register online by October 14! 

  For more information call the Brush Chamber of Commerce, 970-842-2666.

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• Increasing Customer Traffic and Revenue as a Destination BUSINESS WORKSHOP

  • When
    10/17/2019
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    8:00 AM - 3:00 PM
  • Location
    Carroll Bldg, 418 Edison St, Brush, CO

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  Join the Brush! Chamber Main Street,  Morgan County partners, and Downtown Colorado, Inc. in presenting a full day Jon Schallert business workshop on Destination principles and their specific application to the community and individual businesses. The full day workshop is 8:00AM to 3:00PM. 

  
  

  This workshop for business owners is $10 for Brush Chamber Members and Investors , DCI Members, SBDC Clients, and Colorado Main Street Communities. 

  Non-Member registration is $25.; 

  
  

  For more information call the Brush Chamber of Commerce, 970-842-2666. Register online by October 16! 

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• Neighborhoods First: An Evening with Chuck Marohn

  • When
    10/30/2019
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    6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Lakewood, CO

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  Mark your calendars for Strong Town's Chuck Marohn on October 30!

  Downtown Colorado, Inc., American Planning Association of Colorado, and the City of Lakewood are proud to bring Chuck Marohn, founder and president of Strong Towns, to Lakewood the evening of October 30, 2019 to kick off the Strong America Tour! Strong Towns is a national organization dedicated to community development that celebrates resilience, incremental change, adaptation, citizen engagement, and making decisions based on current finances and neighborhood needs.

  
  

  After noticing that America’s national system of development and growth was fundamentally broken and resulting in communities going deep into debt, Mr. Marohn founded Strong Towns in 2008. What began as a blog promoting a model of development that allows America’s towns to become financially strong and resilient, has blossomed into an award-winning international nonprofit with thousands of subscribers and chapters throughout America. This event will allow community leaders and citizens to select their own topic from a range of focus areas touched on in Mr. Marohn’s forthcoming book, “Strong Towns: A Bottom-Up Revolution to Rebuild American Prosperity”, which offers a new vision of urban development in the United States.

  Mr. Marohn is a licensed Professional Engineer and land use planner with over two decades of experience. He is the lead author of Thoughts of Building Strong Towns Volume 1, Volume 2, and Volume 3 and wrote A World Class Transportation System, and in 2017, Mr. Marohn was named one of the Top 10 Most Influential Urbanists of All Time by Planetizen.

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