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Article: Community revitalization tough but rewarding business.(From the Ground Up)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Mississippi Business Journal
- Article date:
- October 6, 2003
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Community revitalization is a tough, but rewarding business. It is a big business if one counts all the government spending, foundation investment, and nonprofit funding that goes into it. And that's not counting the time contributed by thousands of volunteers.
I have not seen any statistics, but I suspect that most neighborhoods targeted for revitalization are not fully revitalized. Instead, there is a slowdown in decline of the neighborhood. That's not necessarily a bad thing; many groups involved in community revitalization could probably do better if they answered the six fundamental questions below.
First, what are you going to do with the current ...