The Community Institute #4 - "Community Economics" October 22, 2015 Brunswick Maine


Join national faculty members Charles Marohn from Strong Towns and Joe Minicozzi from Urban 3 LLC on Thursday, October 22, 2015 at The Daniel in Brunswick Maine. Additional state, regional and local faculty members will be announced soon.

Each session of The Community Institute features up-close and personal discussion with national experts, tools for you and your community and valuable networking time. Each session of TCI builds strong places, communities and leaders. Register Today!

Where else can you spend a day talking about policies, programs, tools and opportunities that will make a difference, improve your community and strengthen our local, regional and state economy? At The Community Institute you will learn from others, acquire tools that work, engage in discussions that matter and be inspired.

Charles Marohn is from Strong Towns. Strong Towns mission is to "support a model of development that allows America's cities, towns and neighborhoods to become financially strong and resilient". Strong Towns holds that:

  • Financial solvency is a prerequisite for long term prosperity.

  • Land is the base resource from which community prosperity is built and sustained.

  • A transportation system is a means of creating prosperity in a community, not an end unto itself.

  • Job creation and economic growth are the results of a healthy local economy, not substitutes for one.

  • Local government is a platform for citizens to collaboratively build a prosperous place.

  • Strong Towns are made of Strong Citizens.

Developer Joe Minicozzi from Urban3 LLC will also serve as a faculty member for this session. Urban3 LLC helps communities make better decisions through the understanding of data and design. He will present his data and analysis, including some from Maine communities he has worked with and inspire you to view your community's development patters differently. His group has conducted property value analysis, retail tax studies, revenue forecasting, and transit-oriented development analysis across geographies ranging from rural areas and small cities to regional areas. Joe Minicozzi is the principal of Urban3, a consulting company created by Asheville real estate developer, Public Interest Projects. Urban3's work in pioneering geo-spatial representation of economic productivity has prompted a paradigm shift in understanding the economic potency of urbanism and the value of well designed cities. Their studies of cities in the United States and Canada have affected the reevaluation of public policy and a broader understanding of market dynamics created by tax policy.

Joe Minicozzi, Urban3 LLC

 

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Building Strong Communities-Recap
On June 18, approximately 65 people attended Building Strong

Building Strong Communities Presenters, FMM Board Members

and FMM Staff

Communities at The Rockport Opera House. In addition to a delicious social hour, attendees were entertained and inspired by 10 presentations on stage, all of whom competed for one $500 people's choice award.  The winner of the strongest community building project was Rob Brown of the Cooperative Development Institute and the Business Owners Solutions project. Second place was awarded to Bre Bebb of Our Town Belfast for the video project.
The contenders were:
A. Business Owners Solutions, Cooperative Development Institute, Rob Brown
B. Culinary Connections, The Penobscot School, Mac Deford
C. Erickson Fields, Teen Ag Program, Ron Howard
Rob Brown of Business Ownership Solutions Selected as People's Choice Winner!
D. Forktale, Seth Silverton
E. Green Gem Holistic Healing, Sandy Fortin
F. In-Fill Ordinances, Valli Geiger
G. Midcoast Leadership Academy, Robin McIntosh
H. Our Town Belfast Video Project, Breanna Pinkham-Bebb
I.  St George Business Alliance, Rosemary Limmen
J. Window Dressers, Frank Mundo
 
In addition, Rockport Town Manager Rick Bates spoke about Why Broadband Matters and Jane Lafleur presented the top ten accomplishments of Friends of Midcoast Maine and in Midcoast communities. Peter Gross, AIA of Camden was elected to a three year term on the FMM Board of Trustees.                                  
Rockport Town Manager Rick Bates
  
The second Annual Building Strong Communities event was sponsored by Friends of Midcoast Maine, the Town of Rockport, The Orton Family Foundation, PenBay Healthcare, Renys, and the Amtrak Downeaster.

 
RESPONSIBLE TOURISM - How to Preserve the Goose that Lays the Golden Egg

Where did you go on your last vacation? Was it rewarding and satisfying?

Camden, Maine

Would you recommend it to a friend? Did the destination meet your expectations? Or were you disappointed? Did traffic congestion, dirty air, crowded beaches, slipshod service or excessive commercialism leave you feeling frustrated and cheated?

 

Tourism is big business. Americans spend more than $800 billion a year on travel and recreational pursuits away from home. Tourism is one of the three largest industries in every American state and a critical factor in the world economy. READ MORE...

 
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