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Downtown Revitalization Playbook
Principles & Players
Underlying Principles
Meet the Players
Readiness Factors
Fundamental Terms
Glossary
Funders & Investors
The Community Investment Ecosystem
How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?
Get Started
Practitioners
Guidelines for Investment
5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work
Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return
Types of Investments
Developers
Take the Readiness Assessment
Case Studies
Additional Information
About This Project
Appendices
Download the PDF Playbook
Download the PDF Readiness Assessment
Readiness Assessment
Downtown Revitalization Playbook
Principles & Players
Underlying Principles
Meet the Players
Readiness Factors
Fundamental Terms
Glossary
Funders & Investors
The Community Investment Ecosystem
How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?
Get Started
Practitioners
Guidelines for Investment
5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work
Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return
Types of Investments
Developers
Take the Readiness Assessment
Case Studies
Additional Information
About This Project
Appendices
Download the PDF Playbook
Download the PDF Readiness Assessment
Readiness Assessment
Folder: Principles & Players
Back
Underlying Principles
Meet the Players
Readiness Factors
Fundamental Terms
Glossary
Folder: Funders & Investors
Back
The Community Investment Ecosystem
How Do You Know a Community Is Ready?
Get Started
Folder: Practitioners
Back
Guidelines for Investment
5 Stages of Investment & Pre-Work
Understand the Capital Stack & Spectrum of Financial Return
Types of Investments
Developers
Take the Readiness Assessment
Case Studies
Folder: Additional Information
Back
About This Project
Appendices
Download the PDF Playbook
Download the PDF Readiness Assessment
Readiness Assessment

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The readiness assessment can help your community identify which factors you have in place to leverage for downtown revitalization while also providing context for how the community can overcome any acknowledged challenges. At the end, you’ll get an overview assessment of community readiness.

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This Playbook was commissioned by the Appalachian Funders Network (AFN) and the Central Appalachia Network (CAN), and funded by grants from the Appalachian Investment Ecosystem Initiative (AIEI), Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, and Community and Economic Development Initiative of Kentucky (CEDIK). Thank you to all the individuals that contributed to the development of this Playbook in the form of insight, case studies, photographs, and review.