DIY Market Analysis: Free Data to Explore and Demonstrate Downtown Market Opportunities Webinar
Wednesday, March 6th – 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
Are you interested in demonstrating the economic opportunities of doing business in your downtown?
More and more data sources are available online today from both public and private organizations. The data can produce facts and figures of interest to investors, lenders and business operators. This webinar will explore a sample of data sources and how they can be used in both a comprehensive market analysis and in just-in-time research to answer questions that arise.
The discussion will look at data that can be utilized in the Downtown and Business District Market Analysis toolbox. This resource has been developed and updated by Extension in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Minnesota. The toolbox provides a structure for conducting community–led studies involving a local volunteer study group.
Webinar participants will leave with various sources that can provide new insights on study area and trade area dynamics.
Time will be reserved at the end for a “show and tell” of other data sites that we have missed. So if you have a valuable source of data useful in understanding your district, community, or trade area, drop it in the chat box during the webinar.
And yes, to amend the rivalry between Ohio and Wisconsin, Extension educators and downtown professionals will have each other’s company as we learn and share together.
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Speakers:
Bill Ryan
Bill Ryan works for the University of Wisconsin-Madison/Extension and is a statewide specialist in downtown and tourism business development. He provides research and educational programs throughout the state with city, chamber, and other economic development leaders interested in filling empty space and repurposing their downtowns with new uses for buildings. Bill co-authored an on-line downtown market analysis toolbox which is used nationwide to guide community – led market studies. Prior to Extension, Bill was employed in financial planning and hotel development in Boston.
Jon Wolfrath
Jon Wolfrath is a graduate student in the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning program at the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He is focusing his studies on economic development, transportation, and housing. He also works for the University of Wisconsin – Madison/Extension as a Community Business Development Analyst and has assisted in market analysis research and resource development.
Danielle Steinhauser
Danielle Steinhauser, CMSM works for CT Consultants, a municipal engineering firm in OH, KY, PA & WV. She works with municipalities and downtown organizations to plan projects and find funding resources. Her work is diverse, allowing her to assist communities with everything from market analyses and strategic planning to streetscapes to water and storm water lines and treatment facilities. Danielle has worked on several dozen Downtown Plans for communities across Ohio and Pennsylvania, including recommendations and implementation strategies in all of Main Street’s Four Points. Prior to her work in consulting, Danielle was a Main Street Manager in Toledo, Ohio.
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Federal Qualified Opportunity Zones Webinar
Wednesday, February 6th – 1:00 pm-2:00 pm
As part of 2017 federal tax reform, Congress created new tax benefits for certain investments in low-income communities designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones. During 2018 Ohio designated 320 Opportunity Zones, the maximum allowed.
This webinar will provide an overview of the technical aspects of the program. Suggested strategies will be offered for using the QOZ program in mid-western cities and how you can combine QOZ investments with other economic incentives.
Speakers:
Kelly Bissinger
Kelly is a partner in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and a member of the finance, energy and real estate group. Her practice is focused on real estate and tax matters. Kelly represents clients from all perspectives of the acquisition, financing, ownership, development and sale of office buildings, apartment projects, mixed-use and other commercial properties. In particular, she has experience representing both institutional and developer clients in connection with structuring and negotiating real estate joint ventures with an emphasis on the tax planning aspects of such transactions.
In addition, Kelly has extensive experience advising developers, syndicators and investors on low-income housing, historic, new market and energy tax credits matters, including legislative and regulatory developments, originations, secondary market acquisitions and dispositions, end of compliance period planning and workouts.In 2013, Kelly was named one of Real Estate Bisnow’s (D.C.) 35 Under 35: Rising Stars in Commercial Real Estate. Kelly received her LL.M. with distinction in taxation and her J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center. She received her B.A. cum laude from Tulane University. Prior to joining Vorys, Kelly was an attorney with Goulston & Storrs P.C. and Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP.
Avram Fecher
Before co-founding EquityPlus, Mr. Fechter worked for the District Government underwriting and closing over $400 million in LIHTC and NMTC financed projects while deploying $3 million of 9% LIHTC Allocation and $80 million of District Government loans. Mr. Fechter has closed over $800 million in NMTC/HTC/LIHTC financing and has served as an NMTC Allocation Application reader for the CDFI Fund. Mr. Fechter has a Masters Degree in Public Policy from Rutgers University. He lives in Aldie, Virginia with his wife, Linnea, and two children, Alana and Evan.
Joseph Mann
Joseph is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office, a member of the tax group and the head of the federal tax subgroup. He practices generally in the area of federal taxation, including public and private mergers, tax-free and taxable acquisitions and divestitures, partnerships, limited liability companies, S corporations, joint ventures, venture capital, real estate, restructurings, financing and equity transactions. Joseph advises in transactions involving federal New Markets Tax Credits and Historic Tax Credits. Joseph’s federal practice also includes tax aspects of the oil and gas industry, including divestitures and joint ventures relating to interests in the Utica Shale formation in eastern Ohio.
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Using Utility Project Funding to Improve More Than the Just the Pipes Webinar
Wednesday, January 9th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
How the City of Newark leveraged a sewer separation project to revitalize their downtown. Faced with US EPA mandates to separate its combined sewer system and wanting to improve the look and feel of the historic Downtown square, the City of Newark was able to put together financing to not only improve failing infrastructure but revitalize the square as well.
Speaker: Roger Loomis
Water Administrator City of Newark, Division of Water and Wastewater
Total of 41 years of experience at various water and wastewater facilities working in all facets of the water and wastewater utility business. B.S. Business Administration, Human Resources from The Ohio State University, A.A.S. Turfgrass Management from Agricultural Technical Institute of Wooster, Class III Water Supply Certification, and Class IV Wastewater Treatment Certification.
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Revitalizing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities: Tools for Local Leaders Webinar
Wednesday, June 20th – 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Smaller legacy cities – older industrial communities with about 30,000 to 200,000 residents – are undergoing significant transformations as they adapt to twenty-first-century economic realities. Revitalizing America’s Smaller Legacy Cities, a report from Greater Ohio Policy Center and the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, documents the unique challenges and opportunities facing these communities as they seek to revitalize and thrive. Eight strategies for small city urban revitalization emerged from that report, and this toolkit is meant to provide additional resources to practitioners working on the ground to implement them.
This webinar will prove useful for individuals in community organizations, local government, community lending, philanthropy or anyone else who is interested in urban revitalization in small legacy cities.
Speaker: John Collier
Manager of Research, Greater Ohio Policy Center
As Manager of Research for the Greater Ohio Policy Center, John provides support on research projects, contributes to policy development, and works with partners statewide. Since joining GOPC in 2016, John has provided data-driven research on a variety of GOPC’s core issues areas including brownfields, housing, and urban revitalization in small legacy cities. John is an Ohio native, born and raised in Toledo and a graduate of The Ohio State University where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with a minor in City and Regional Planning.
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