Mansfield, as part of a multi-year economic development campaign, has embarked on an effort to make the Main Street corridor more welcoming and pedestrian friendly. The effort has been led by the public and private sector through a mix of philanthropic grants combined with federal, state, and local funding.

The City of Columbus constructed the city’s first protected bike lane in more than 30 years on a major arterial roadway connecting the University District with the downtown business district. The project, stalled for many years, was revived when a planned resurfacing project by the state DOT renewed interest in the corridor. 

The Western Licking County Accord (2018) is a non-binding planning agreement between 3 jurisdictions for if, how, and where development will occur in the neighboring communities to help them anticipate potential changes and encourage responsible growth.

In 2020, the Affordable Housing Trust for Columbus and Franklin County evaluated their internal procedures to identify ways their work could be fine-tuned in order to improve measures of equity in their community.

Established through multi-sector collaboration, the Springfield Housing Solutions Consortium is a multi-sector group of community leaders that are addressing the City’s current market-rate and affordable housing needs.

Insight2050 Corridor Concepts provides a plan for population growth and development, over the next 30 years. Central Ohio is expected to grow by nearly one million residents by 2050; this study offers strategies for absorbing that new population.

Public-private partnerships have paved the road for a new dedicated transit service that connects residents, in Butler, Hamilton, Montgomery, and Warren counties, to employers across the growing I-75 industrial corridor.

Developed, owned, and operated by the Detroit Shoreway CDO, Aspen Place is an example of transit-oriented development that capitalizes on neighborhood assets and takes advantage of an innovative partnership with Greater Cleveland RTA.

Nehemiah Manufacturing and Beacon of Hope Business Alliance, now Cincinnati Works, engages in “second chance” hiring practices by providing social services and support to workers returning from incarceration.

In Sandusky, various sectors have aligned their missions and partnered to develop the nation’s first college centered on resort and attraction management—a $14 million investment that has also sparked improvements to other aspects of the City’s revitalization.

The Dayton Arcade is a historic rehabilitation project that has served as a vehicle for leveraging alignment in the city’s social programming, making it a notable example of how real estate development can spur equitable outcomes.

ECDI launched Capital for Construction to provide minority business enterprises (MBEs) with training and access to flexible and affordable short-term capital. The program works to reduce financial barriers and sustain MBE contractors’ businesses.

The Minority Business Accelerator highlights the power of leveraging existing anchors to yield more significant equity impacts. The Accelerator provides individually-tailored advisory support and coaching to help Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) acquire what they need to excel.

COTA provides eligible downtown workers with unlimited access to the entire bus system through the Downtown CPass program. CPass has been an innovative and effective way of encouraging alternative transportation, reducing parking needs, and increasing COTA’s ridership.

The Downtown Newark Revitalization Project is an excellent example of leveraging an otherwise traditional infrastructure project into a transformative placemaking opportunity and economic generator for the city by creatively designing the project to be eligible for multiple funding sources.

Hamilton CORE is a 501(c)(3) partnership established to help accelerate downtown revitalization in Hamilton, and reduce financial barriers for investing in the urban core by managing funds for strategic commercial and below market single-family residential real estate property acquisition and investment.

The South Side Renaissance Fund is a $20 million loan fund for the financing of community development projects and the acquisition, construction and permanent financing of affordable single family and multifamily rental housing in South Side Columbus neighborhoods.

LBCA’s traffic-generating events like fairs, festivals and open houses have drawn people to the historic Bridge Street in Ashtabula.

The Scioto Foundation brought together a broad group of community stakeholders to discuss and brainstorm a vision for the future of Downtown Portsmouth.

A 10 year, $50M place-based initiative to address the social determinants of health in a Toledo neighborhood.