Revitalize Your Downtown: Practical Steps Cities Can Start Now
By The Building Department Team | Sep 19, 2025 | 2 min. read
If you lead a city, a planning team, or a building department, you know downtown sets the tone for your community. When storefronts sit empty or proje...
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Invisible Infrastructure: The Systems Cities Can’t Live Without
By Juliana Ficheli Hoffman | 6 min. read
This article is part of SAFEbuilt’s Economic Development blog series — created for city leaders navigating growth, public pressure, and limited resour...
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How Municipalities Can Leverage Piggybacking To Streamline Service Delivery
By The Community Development Team | 4 min. read
Municipalities today face mounting challenges. Staffing shortages, rising service demands, and increasingly tight budgets are putting more pressure on...
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Navigating Economic Change: A Perspective for City Leaders
By Joe DeRosa | 4 min. read
This article is part of From the President’s Desk, where I share reflections from the field, drawn from conversations with city leaders and the real-w...
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From Rochester to Reno: How Two Cities Taught Me the Power of Reinvention
By Joe DeRosa | 5 min. read
I grew up in Rochester, New York, when it was still humming with the strength of American manufacturing. In the 1970s, it was a proud industrial city ...
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Retirements Are Rising: Is Your City Ready?
By Joe DeRosa | 3 min. read
Across the country, cities and counties are facing a quiet but growing challenge: the “silver tsunami” of retirements sweeping through the public sect...
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The Next Frontier: Creative Approaches to Small-Town Economic Development
By Juliana Ficheli Hoffman | 3 min. read
Innovation isn’t just for tech campuses or megacities. In 2025, small towns are leading some of the most creative economic development strategies in t...
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