We work with you to create a place that stands out because it is uniquely yours.
Imagine if you could…
Get more people downtown. Fill vacant storefronts. Create more jobs with more local, diverse entrepreneurs.
I’m as impatient as you are to bring back main street and make it a thriving place. Let’s get there now.
We’ll partner with you to:
Map your missing local businesses (like small-scale manufacturing!), key connectors, and other assets hiding in plain sight.
Meet with business and property owners, government officials, and real estate developers to understand economic, planning, decision-making, and downtown brand barriers to success.
Mine local policies and onsite interviews to hand you proven models of success to make your downtown thrive and fix problems ASAP.
How it Works
Step 1: Book a Recast Spark
Identify your downtown, main street, or neighborhood’s unique angle and get a plan to move forward towards revitalization with strong local businesses. In this 1.5 hour interview we get to the heart of who you are, what your place is about, what makes it different, and where small-scale manufacturing fits as a catalyst. Then we deliver a clear roadmap for how to bring downtown back to life.
$1995
*(This cost, or the cost of Recast Your City to Thrive, get credited to Recast Leaders moving forward).
Ready to make it happen?
Be the first to know when we open a new cohort. Join the Recast Leaders Waitlist today!
Step 2: join the next cohort
Rebuild your economy & downtown alongside a select group of like-minded local leaders.
Join a select community of local leaders who want to learn all the details and get it done now. Get all the expertise and all the coaching to identify the right actions AND get the support to implement successfully too. Join Recast Leaders to build a strong, inclusive downtown and get your economy humming in 10 months.
Once a year, I select a small group of communities to make sure they go from outcomes to implementation in the Recast Leaders program. This 10-month cohort is the only way to get my ongoing direct expertise and be a part of a crew of communities working to all get ahead together. If you want to LEAD THE WAY, doors are open now to be a Recast Leader.
RECAST LEADERS IS AN INTENSIVE GET-IT-DONE-FOR-YOUR-CITY PROGRAM FOR PLACES COMMITTED TO MAKING THINGS HAPPEN.
RECAST LEADERS GRADUATES SEE THESE RESULTS:
Build a stronger, more resilient, more inclusive, business community.
Find the right local businesses for main street (or your downtown).
Bring small-scale manufacturing businesses into the limelight to achieve these outcomes.
Grow buy-in to bring main street back to life and increase property values.
Redevelop properties and adopt key business development models.
Implement new models within six to twelve months.
$2,100 per month
Or pay in full upfront and receive a $3,000 discount.
Do you need more intensive or more immediate help? Check out the Recast Boost for our 4-month intensive with direct one-on-one assistance from Ilana.
Testimonials
“Ilana is a person that sleeps (we hope) and dreams of creating successful small scale manufacturing businesses in distressed communities. After working with Recast City, we published an RFP of a city owned building for the property to be redeveloped for maker spaces, and we partnered more with the Knoxville Area Urban League and the Knoxville Entrepreneur Center (KEC) to help makers grow and to educate neighborhoods on how to support their business base."
Dawn Michelle Foster, Director, Office of Redevelopment, Knoxville, TN
”Our work with Recast City crystalized what we are trying to do economic development wise - what the needs are out there, what the businesses are, and what our street could become. We saw a huge change in how the Business Loop is viewed. People used to say it’s not safe. Now they’re asking about the cool pop-up lot. Ilana pushed us to look for connectors and be intentional about bringing in underrepresented business owners – it really broadened my view of the community and my network. The final report felt very specific to us - there were steps I could start moving on Day 1. We will have the commercial shared kitchen open 9 months from the date of the report!”
Carrie Gartner, Executive Director, The Business Loop Improvement District, Columbia, MO
If you are ready to have storefronts filled with people and local businesses thrive, and maybe have more questions, book a call to see if Recast City is the partner to get you there.