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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 gets applied to any Recast Boost moving forward).
Book a call today and see if it’s a fit.
Step 2: Recast Boost
Bring life to the heart of your community with a Boost. Get property owners excited about the potential. Bring small-scale manufacturers and other local businesses to the front to fill storefronts. Find the right real estate and economic development models for your specific community challenges.
We’ll work side-by-side with you to get it right. You’ll understand what’s really limiting downtown businesses and investment, have buy-in to take action, and clear short-term actions that make your downtown and local businesses thrive.
We dive deep with you on this 4-month project that includes one-on-one work with you and your team to fix policies, launch new programs, and create new real estate potential - all to make your downtown amazing again.
$44,995
Step 3: Recast complete
Make it all happen with our help. You are not alone to manage all of the new actions on top of your day job. We work with you as project manager, cheerleader, mentor, coach, researcher, and get-it-done help. All our expertise is at your disposal to make sure you successfully change downtown, main street, small business support, or target real estate right now.
$10,000-$40,000
If you are ready to have storefronts filled with people and local businesses thrive, book a call to see if Recast City is the partner to get you there.
Want to learn how to do this yourself with tons of coaching support alongside other awesome leaders? The Recast Leaders program might be the right fit for you. Check out the details here.
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