8. Anthony Wayne Hotel, Hamilton, Ohio $16.5 million dollar renovation of 7-story hotel building into 48 apartments. Today, this building which was once considered โexpendableโ houses the Hamilton Welcome Center and the offices of the Hamilton Convention & Visitors Bureau
12. โ Economic development is an extraordinary competitive undertaking. Lower taxes to the minimum and another town will abate taxes all together. Lend money at a low interest rate and somewhere else will lend it interest free. Provide all of the public infrastructure and another community will throw in a building as well. But utilizing a communityโs historic resources is a strategy absolutely exclusive to your community.โ - Donovan Rypkema, Place Economics
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14. โ Jack Shrode, construction managerโฆsaid the continual work on historic buildings is crucial. He said his company took on the project because of the surrounding buildings in the historic downtown. โIts critical. With the lossโฆyou canโt afford to lose any more.โ He said losing enough buildings would drastically change the economic scope of development in the downtown. โIf you take that out of the equation, I couldnโt estimate the drop of revenue to the city. If the Carlisle were a stand-alone, even as beautiful as it is, I wouldnโt have done the preservation.โโ - Chillicothe Gazette, September 4, 2006
21. Upstairs Game developed in Japan Players in US, Canada, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, Australia Instant Interaction Talks live via headset Downstairs Online Web 2.0 program hosted in Romania Streaming radio from the BBC in London One Summer Night in Small-Town Ohio Broadband telephone
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26. E-Commerce and Downtowns Kennedy Lawson Smith Former Director, National Main Street Center โ Even a small increase in a downtown merchantโs annual sales can be the make or break for continued operation. Sometimes, $1000 to $5000 can make all the difference in the world between surviving to another year or closing.โ
