Rural Research Report: LeClaire, Iowa: What Revitalization Can Accomplish

Ambrose University in Rypkema (2003) claims that downtown areas are a critical link to the future for small Davenport, Iowa, and the Forbes towns, and many strategies have been developed after studying the wants and needs School of Business in Clinton, of communities. [...] Protocol and policy ers recognized that various stakeholder needs must be dictated that the plan be presented to the public in monthly embraced through place-making strategies and by using a open door, community-wide meetings for a year and a half. [...] Even during the difficult and challenging economic power, cable, and phone poles and wires; poor signage; downturn across America, LeClaire was able to attract deteriorating or vacant buildings; and limited number of small businesses as a positive outcome in its revitalization businesses in the downtown area had to be addressed. [...] A cooperative public-private partnership (PPP) helped in Prior to the successful transformation, the downtown area forming a collaborative arrangement between the public and had 14 businesses and four restaurants. [...] Housing Developments and Recreation As part of the revitalization effort and planned growth, asset The revitalization successes quickly caught the attention mapping and research disclosed inadequate housing avail- of many housing developers.