Billings Gazette reports on how Asheville urban planner Joe Minicozzi spread the word about his hometown's downtown-success story:
At the First Interstate Bank Operations Center on Tuesday morning, a North Carolina developer touted the public benefits of investing in downtown revitalization. ...
The speaker at the first event was Joseph Minicozzi, executive director of the Asheville, N.C., Downtown Association. His main message was that cities need to think like farmers — in terms of yields per acre, in this case the yield of tax revenue per acre of development. ...
He said Asheville, population 80,000, had a thriving downtown until the mid-1950s, when an expressway was built through its middle. During the 1970s and '80s, he said, the downtown was "dead as a doornail," with blocks and blocks of boarded-up buildings and deserted streets. ...
In terms of total taxes paid, the county takes in $51,000 a year per acre on the Asheville Walmart, compared with $414,000 a year per acre on the six-story downtown building [rehabbed by Public Interest Projects].
"That's what the community got by our investment," he said. ...
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At the First Interstate Bank Operations Center on Tuesday morning, a North Carolina developer touted the public benefits of investing in downtown revitalization. ...
The speaker at the first event was Joseph Minicozzi, executive director of the Asheville, N.C., Downtown Association. His main message was that cities need to think like farmers — in terms of yields per acre, in this case the yield of tax revenue per acre of development. ...
He said Asheville, population 80,000, had a thriving downtown until the mid-1950s, when an expressway was built through its middle. During the 1970s and '80s, he said, the downtown was "dead as a doornail," with blocks and blocks of boarded-up buildings and deserted streets. ...
In terms of total taxes paid, the county takes in $51,000 a year per acre on the Asheville Walmart, compared with $414,000 a year per acre on the six-story downtown building [rehabbed by Public Interest Projects].
"That's what the community got by our investment," he said. ...
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