Newsletter: Downtown leaders to learn new skills, strategies in Missouri

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The State of Wyoming's Economic Development Agency   l   March 6, 2018

Wyoming downtown leaders
to learn new skills,
strategies in Missouri

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Wyoming Main Street is escorting a bus jampacked with downtown advocates to the Kansas City, Missouri, area March 21-March 29 for a week of workshops, classes and a national conference dedicated to teaching local leaders how to market their communities, fundraise for new amenities, develop a thriving commercial scene and breathe new life into their towns and cities.

The event consists of two parts. The first is a uniquely Wyoming event called the Best Practices Workshop, in which Main Street staff and community supporters will spend two days visiting four Missouri towns ranging in size from 5,300 to 30,000 people. These communities face similar challenges to Wyoming's.

Leaders from each town will guide the Wyoming visitors around while explaining how they approach marketing; incorporate public art; redevelop historic property into functional, modern uses; create public space and help the cores of their communities thrive.

The aphorism goes that great artists steal. The National Main Street Center takes the saying to heart by encouraging community leaders to incorporate what works elsewhere back home. That’s what the sponsorship-driven Best Practices Workshop, now in its 10th year, is all about.

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Report offers snapshot of Wyoming economic development in 2017

A snapshot of the Wyoming Business Council’s 2017 achievements and the opportunities and challenges ahead is available in the agency’s 2017 Benchmarks and Annual Report released today. // READ STORY

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