Delegates from five cities will visit Greenville in November to learn how the city has used historic preservation, brownfield redevelopment, and historic preservation to create “one of America’s most beautiful Main Streets and a vibrant downtown.”
The Amazing Place Ideas Forum, presented by Smart Growth America, has announced that leadership teams from Akron, Ohio; Charlotte, N.C.; Columbia, S.C.; Macon, Ga.; and Wichita, Kan. will visit Greenville Nov. 14-16.
The participants will also visit Denver, Colo., August 29-31, to study how that city has used transit, strategic redevelopment, and the arts to attract millennials.
“Denver and Greenville exemplify the Amazing Place approach to local economic development,” said Smart Growth America in a statement. “The five selected communities will get an up-close look at how they’re doing it, but this is an approach that any community can use.”
Greenville was featured in Smart Growth America’s 2016 study, “Amazing Place: Six Cities Using the New Recipe for Economic Development.” Denver, Minneapolis, Nashville, Pittsburgh, and Boise, Idaho, were the other cities featured.
Learn more at smartgrowthamerica.org.
