Is your downtown losing its energy?

Revitalizing Downtowns: How Cities Are Breathing New Life Into Downtowns

Vacant buildings, limited investment, and outdated codes can stall growth. But with the right updates, communities can bring activity and opportunity back to the core.

This on-demand webinar gives city leaders practical strategies to refresh zoning, reuse underutilized space, align infrastructure, and create a downtown that attracts residents, visitors, and businesses.

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Revitalizing Downtown with SAFEbuilt

What You'll Learn

Clear, actionable ideas for city managers, community development directors, and building officials.

People downtown at market

Updating Codes To Support Growth

Targeted zoning changes that open the door for mixed use and housing.

Reusing Vacant and Underused Space

Strategies to convert older buildings into active housing and retail.

Strengthening Walkability & Public Space

Design improvements that draw people downtown and support local business.

Guiding Housing in the Right Areas

Clear standards for density, height, and placement where services can handle growth.

Identifying Funding and Incentives

Options that make downtown redevelopment realistic for cities and developers.

Engaging Stakeholders Effectively

Approaches to build support while addressing concerns about parking, character, and open space.

Featuring Your Hosts

Meet the SAFEbuilt experts sharing their insights in this session:
JimHickey

Jim Hickey, AICP

Director of Planning Services, SAFEbuilt

Jim brings decades of municipal planning experience, helping communities modernize zoning codes, streamline permitting, and manage development pressure effectively.

He is known for working closely with communities to balance new development with existing needs, drawing on his long track record as a city and town planner across South Florida

David-Dixon

Dave Dixon, AICP

Principal Planner, SAFEbuilt

Dave Dixon brings more than a decade of experience helping communities across the U.S. and Canada shape their future. His work spans comprehensive and redevelopment planning, urban design, site planning, and land use code updates, with a strong specialty in GIS. 

Watch the Webinar On-Demand

Hear how communities across the country are refreshing aging spaces, engaging stakeholders, and breathing new life into their downtowns.

Bring New Life to Your Community

Curious how these strategies could work for your city? Let’s explore what’s possible together.