Thursday, March 09, 6:00pm – 7:30pm.
FOCUS Lab (21 3rd St. Troy, NY)

MAIN & MAIN:
At the Intersection of Imperative and Opportunity

Join us for The 3rd Annual FoSCI Winter Dialogue featuring renowned urbanist and dynamic speaker DAVID DIXON, who will lay out the future of North America’s communities for the next two decades, an era of unprecedented imperative and opportunity. Mr. Dixon says one of the keys to inclusive development is creating and enhancing mixed-use, walkable places. Welcome to the new Main Street!

Mr. Dixon will discuss how growing our local—and regional—economies starts with attracting and retaining “talent”, the educated and skilled workforce which in turn attracts and retains jobs and investment. This talent—whether formally educated at a major university or brought into the workforce and provided marketable skills by local nonprofits—seeks mixed-use environments to live and work. Jobs and investment follow. At the same time, housing represents two-thirds of our real estate economy and dramatic demographic changes will increasingly support the strongest demand for housing in mixed-used, walkable places since at least World War II. These are equal opportunity trends. Even in regions with slow or no population growth, demographic churn supports Main Street investment and a global talent shortage means jobs and investment will follow. How do communities unlock their opportunity to meet this imperative? Start planning now and start with Main Street.

(This event is part of the programing around our current FOCUS Lab exhibition “Resurfacing Main Streets.”)

https://www.futureofsmallcities.org/events/main-and-main

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