Seven sure steps to reactivate your neighborhood

A vibrant public realm leads to successful businesses and additional economic opportunity. Here's seven sure fire ways to reactivate your community without breaking the piggy bank.

<h1>2. Market Urbanism</h1> Before and after images of Engine 15 Brewing Company’s bier garden in Jacksonville’s Honeymoon Yard industrial district. Zoning regulations were modified in order to allow a craft brewery and bier garden to use an abandoned early 20th century warehouse and rail loading dock.

Market Urbanism refers to the synthesis of classical liberal economics and ethics with an appreciation of the urban way of life and its benefits to society. The concept essentially embraces bottom up solutions, as opposed to those that are imposed from the top down. In general, if your community’s revitalization efforts have been a struggle, there’s a chance that certain local land use and zoning regulations could be obstructing market rate uses from coming in. Loosening those policies could create market rate economic opportunities for the private sector to take advantage of long underutilized spaces.