Finding Solutions brochure 2004

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Associate Sponsors:
Presenting Sponsors:
Title Sponsor:
Community Economic
Development Fund
Presented by:
Premium Sponsor:
Connecticut Main
Street Center
Friday, September 17, 2004 • Omni Hotel in Downtown New Haven
Don’t delay – register today! Registration Deadline: Friday September 10, 2004
P.O. Box 261595 • Hartford, CT 06126
Healthy commercial districts are key
to building livable communities. This
full-day conference will provide you
with tools and revitalization strategies
that lead to action-oriented results.
Friday, September 17, 2004
Omni Hotel
in Downtown New Haven
Don’t delay – register today!
“A high quality event – the speakers were wonderful. I think the turn out is testimony
to the fact that economic development people and others have a hunger for good, solid
information and advice that can help them in their work.”
— Martha A. Hunt, President Connecticut Economic Resource Center, Inc.
CHOOSE
FROM
TOPICS
IN THE
FOLLOWING AREAS:
PLACEMAKING
SMALL BUSINESS & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT
PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
Great things are happening throughout
Connecticut on our Main Streets
and in our Neighborhoods.
Come join your colleagues at Finding Solutions
to share and learn:
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How to form partnerships that build capacity for implementation
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How to find the necessary financial resources
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How to craft creative solutions that are cost effective and can work
incrementally
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How to identify and capitalize on your community’s unique and
irreplaceable assets
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That you are the expert for your community and the tools are
available for you to succeed
End your day with a networking reception at
Café Bottega,Temple Street, New Haven.
Who should attend:
Everyone involved in downtown or neighborhood commercial
district revitalization in large cities or small towns including:
Local and state elected officials and employees • Revitalization
professionals and volunteers • Economic development professionals
Corporate, civic, and community leaders • Neighborhood leaders and
residents • Utilities and lending institutions • Planners and design
professionals • Preservationists and conservationists • Business and
property owners • Real estate developers and brokers • Chamber
of commerce and merchant association members
Conference Partners
CEDF – is a non-profit organization created to revitalize
Connecticut’s neighborhoods by providing greater access to
capital, technical assistance to small businesses, and support for community
economic development. Joining forces with the State of Connecticut,
leading lenders, and community representatives, CEDF has provided
millions of dollars in loans to small businesses, created and retained
hundreds of jobs for the state’s residents, and funded innovative community
planning efforts in towns and cities across Connecticut.
CMSC – Connecticut Main Street Center is the state’s leading
resource for cities and towns seeking to comprehensively
revitalize their “main street” districts. CMSC, a non-profit organization
whose major sponsors are the Connecticut Light & Power Company / Yankee
Gas and the State of Connecticut Department of Economic and Community
Development, is a member of the respected National Main Street network
and is committed to bringing Connecticut’s commercial districts back to life
socially and economically.
“WOW is just about all that
needs saying… other than thank
you for doing this wonderful
conference.”
–
Helen Higgins, Executive Director CT Trust
for Historic Preservation
Registration Procedures
Registration fee is $65.You may submit registration and payment
in one of two ways:
ONLINE – Credit Card Only.
You may register and submit payment for Finding Solutions online at
www.ctmainstreet.org OR www.cedf.com.
POSTAL MAIL – Checks Only.
Please make checks payable to “Connecticut Main Street Center” (purchase orders cannot be accepted).
Please complete the registration form and follow instructions for submission detailed below.
Registration deadline is Friday, September 10th. Any registration
received after that date will be processed on-site and is subject to
the late registration fee of $75. Don’t delay - register today!
Your registration fee includes:
All conference materials • Continental breakfast • Keynote luncheon • Closing Reception (cash bar)
Scholarships are available: to a limited number of volunteers who are active in
their communities. Please contact CEDF at 203-782-4377 for more information.
3 Easy Steps to Register!
Submit a separate copy of this form for each person registering for the conference. Keep a copy for your files.
DEADLINE FOR REGISTRATION: Friday, September 10, 2004. Refunds will not be granted after that date.
1) COMPLETE CONTACT INFORMATION
Last name ______________________________________________
First name ______________________________________________
Early Afternoon Sessions: Please indicate your 1st and 2nd choices.
1:45 – 3:15 pm: (mark 1 and 2)
____Small Scale Arts Events That Create A Big Bang
____Good Neighbors Make Great Customers: Neighborhood Housing
Development
____Supporting Local Entrepreneurs:Their Success Is Your Success!
Title __________________________________________________
City __________________________________________________
Late Afternoon Sessions: Please indicate your 1st and 2nd choices.
3:30 – 5:00 pm: (mark 1 and 2)
____After Market Analysis: Identifying your Downtown’s Niche Markets
____Public Art In Public Places
____Mixed-use Development Downtown
State ______________ Zip _______________________________
3) SUBMIT REGISTRATION AND PAYMENT of $65.
Phone_______________________ Fax ______________________
Registration and payment must be received by Friday, September 10,
2004. Any registration received after that date will be processed on-site
and is subject to the late registration fee of $75.
Organization ____________________________________________
Mailing Address ________________________________________
Email__________________________________________________
(please provide for confirmation of registration)
Specific Dietary Restrictions ________________________________
2) PLEASE SELECT SESSION CHOICES
Morning Sessions: Please indicate your 1st and 2nd choices.
10:30 – 12 noon: (mark 1 and 2)
____Catalysts for Change: How Creative Merchants Can Be Key To
Success Of Downtown
____Middletown:Tools & Partnerships for Attracting Destination
Development to Downtown
____The Media’s Role in Downtown Revitalization
You may submit registration and payment in one
of two ways:
I. ONLINE – Credit Card Only. You may register and submit
payment for Finding Solutions online at www.ctmainstreet.org
OR www.cedf.com.
II. POSTAL MAIL – Checks Only.
Please make checks payable to “Connecticut Main Street Center”.
Mail completed registration form to:
FINDING Solutions
P.O. Box 261595
Hartford CT 06126
Please note: faxed registrations will not be accepted.
Conference Program
“What a fantastic conference! The sessions I attended dovetailed perfectly with my present area of
concentration. I can immediately apply what I learned.”
Tana Parseliti, Director Downtown Manchester Special Services District
8:15 – 8:45 am
Registration &
Continental Breakfast
10:30 – 12 noon
Educational Sessions 1-3
Session #1
8:45 – 10:15 am
Welcome &
Opening Plenary Session
Welcome
Connecticut Governor M. Jodi Rell
(invited)
Opening Plenary Session
Cultural Assets + Historic Town
Centers = Connecticut’s Future
Economic Vitality: A Visitor’s Perspective
• Valecia Crisafulli, Associate Director,
Statewide and Local Partners, Center
for Preservation Leadership, National
Trust for Historic Preservation
Ms. Crisafulli has provided her consulting
expertise to many large and small
commercial districts in Connecticut.
Catalysts for Change: How Creative
Merchants Can Be Key to Success –
How Merchants View Their Role in
Revitalization Efforts
• Giuliana Maravalle of Bottega Giuliana &
Café Bottega in Downtown New Haven
• John McTurk Jr. of Colonial Market IGA
in Niantic
• Vivian Akuoko of Evay Day Spa in the
Upper Albany Neighborhood of Hartford.
Session #2
Middletown: Tools & Partnerships for
Attracting Destination Development to
Downtown
• Domenique S.Thornton, Mayor of
Middletown (invited)
• Douglas J. Bennet, President, Wesleyan
University
• Mark Masselli, President, Community
Health Center
• Jennifer Alexander, Kid City
• Ben Logan,The Inn at Middletown
• Moderated by Cal Price,Vice
President & Director of Community
Development, Liberty Bank
• James C. Kevlin, Executive Editor of The
Norwich Bulletin
• Angela Carter, Reporter for The New
Haven Register
12:00 – 1:30pm
Keynote Luncheon
Fred Kent, President
Project for Public Spaces
“Humorous,
charismatic,
and
irreverent,”
Fred Kent is
a leading
authority on
revitalizing
urban public
space, and one
of the foremost thinkers on livability, smart
growth and the future of the city. He
challenges and inspires audiences to put
common sense into practice and to trust in
the ability of ordinary people to create
meaningful public spaces for themselves.
1:45 – 3:15pm
Educational Sessions 4-6
Session #3
Session #4
The Media’s Role in Revitalization –
What the Media Can Do for Your
Community: The Nuts and Bolts of
Building a Good Relationship
• Tom Condon, Place Editor of The
Hartford Courant
Small Scale Arts Events That Create A
Big Bang – Using Arts Events to Draw
More People to Your District
• Penny Parsekian, New London Main
Street – Wet Paint Week
• Jean DeSmet, Willimantic Renaissance –
1st Thursday Concerts
• Thea Buxbaum, Westville Village
Art Walk
Session #5
Session #8
Good Neighbors Make Great Customers
– How to Work Housing Rehabilitation
And Development In Surrounding
Neighborhoods Into Your Commercial
District Plan
• Peter Beronio, City of Englewood NJ
Public Art In Public Places – Creative
Works of Art as People Magnets and
Place Makers
• Alan Plattus, Director of Urban Design
Workshop,Yale School of Architecture
• Linda Dente, Senior Program Specialist,
Connecticut Commission on the Arts,
Tourism, Culture, History & Film
• Helen Kauder, Executive Director of
Artspace, Inc. in New Haven’s 9th Square.
Session #6
Supporting Local Entrepreneurs: Their
Success Is Your Success! – How the
District Works to Support Local Business
• Scott A. Healy, Executive Director of
New Haven’s Town Green Special
Services District
• Sarah Floroski, Executive Director of
Simsbury Main Street Partnership
• Rick J. Mendes, Business Development
Manager, Community Economic
Development Fund
3:30 – 5pm
Educational Sessions 7-9
Session #9
Mixed-use Development –
Combining Vibrant First Floor Businesses
With Upper Story Housing
• Developer Michael Joplin, Downtown
New London
• Romulo Samaniego, Executive Director
of Broad Park Development Corp. –
Hartford
• Moderated by R. Michael Goman,
President & CEO of Konover &
Associates
QUESTIONS?
If you have questions,
please contact
Session #7
After the Market Analysis: What Do You
DO With It? – Identifying Your
Community’s Niche Markets
• Ken Bowers of Phillips, Preiss & Shapiro
Associates, Inc.
• Michael Berne of MJB Consulting
• Gary Roman of First Town Downtown,
Windsor Center
Connecticut Main
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Closing reception
at Café Bottega,
Temple Street New Haven
Join us for refreshments and a chance to
mingle with presenters and fellow attendees.
* topics and speakers subject to change
Street Center
at 860-280-2556 or
kim@ctmainstreet.org.
Driving Directions:
Omni New Haven Hotel at Yale • 155 Temple Street, New Haven, CT 06510 • Phone: 203-772-6664
Park at the Temple Street Garage, located 1⁄2 block south of the Omni Hotel.
From I-91 South:
From I-95 North or South:
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Take exit 1 (Route 34 connector-Downtown New Haven)
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Take exit 47 (Route 34 connector-Downtown New Haven)
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Take 1st exit off of connector (New Haven Coliseum is on
your right)
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Proceed to exit 1 / Route 34 connector
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Follow from directions above
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Go to first traffic light (Church Street)
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Take a right onto Church Street
OR Take the Train to State Street Station!
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At 2nd light, take a left onto Crown Street
Metro North and Shoreline East Commuter Rails both service
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Temple Street Garage is on your left. This is the official
Conference parking location
Downtown New Haven. Commuter Connection busses will
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Omni Hotel is located at 155 Temple Street, 1⁄2 block north
of garage
Omni Hotel.
bring you from State Street Station to within 1 block of the