Recast City
Championing local leaders to revitalize downtowns and grow local economies through small-scale manufacturing
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Since 2014, we've helped 200+ communities across 44 states unlock the potential of this sector with visible results in 3–6 months, not 3–6 years.
Why Small Scale Manufacturing?
Small-scale manufacturers — from artisans to advanced manufacturing are often overlooked economic engines on main streets across the country. They’re nimble, with a unique ability to sell online, wholesale, into supply chains, and in person. This makes them resilient storefront tenants when traditional retail keeps closing. Read More Here.
Where Challenge Meets Opportunity
You've fought for the national business but it passes you by. Meanwhile, your storefronts stay empty, your most talented entrepreneurs struggle or leave for cities that figured this out, and your tax base keeps shrinking.
The businesses who can fill storefronts and anchor your downtown are already in your community. They’re scaling small-batch food, apparel, or hardware. Others are running CNC machines and 3D printers in spaces too small to grow advanced manufacturing businesses.
Whether your community is filling vacant storefronts, growing local entrepreneurship, diversifying the economy, or figuring out what makes people love the community - that is how we get there.
Three Ways to Transform Your Community
Meet Ilana, Founder of Recast City
Ilana Preuss founded Recast City after 20 years watching communities waste time on economic and downtown development strategies that don't work. She’s spent years working directly with leaders in the federal, non-profit, and private sectors to make sure they had the people and policies at hand to create places EVERYONE can call home. In the years since Recast City opened, she’s worked with 200+ communities across 44 states to revitalize downtowns and grow local economies through small-scale and advanced manufacturing.
Ilana Preuss is the founder of Recast City, author of Recast Your City (Island Press), and a nationally recognized expert on downtown revitalization through small-scale and advanced manufacturing. She has advised 200+ communities across 44 states. Grab the book here.
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