Mayor Gray announced last week the release of the Vibrant Retail Streets Toolkit, which evaluates the essential elements of outstanding retail areas and offers a customizable toolbox of strategies and implementation steps to improve retail streets. Developed by the D.C. Office of Planning (OP) and its consultant partner, Streetsense, the Toolkit provides a framework for retail streets in the District to thrive by supporting a dynamic retail experience, retail entrepreneurs and greater collaboration between public and private stakeholders. Enhancing the city’s retail sector is also critical to achieving Mayor Gray’s job creation and economic development goals for the District.
The Toolkit follows up on OP’s Retail Action Strategy and Retail Action Roadmap, both released in 2010, which assessed opportunities in established and emerging retail areas in the District and offered strategies for matching retail opportunities with neighborhood needs and expanding opportunities for small and local retailers. The Toolkit builds on this by taking into account that, as the District’s retail economy continues to evolve and grow, retail streets in D.C.’s neighborhoods face a variety of challenges. Read more.
North Capitol Street SWOT Analysis, Retail Demand Analysis, Strategy and Preliminary Planning Diagrams
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