Main Street Consulting

CDS Inc. provides services to communities who wish to revitalize their historic main street areas, strategically explore short and long terms work plans to bring visions of revitalization to fruition, and explore funding sources, support systems, coordination, and a system of metric tracking to ensure accountability to all stakeholders. CDS Inc., with Merinda Conley, has an extensive background leading the Alberta Main Street Program, consulting to the Main Street Saskatchewan Program, and to The National Trust for Canada. CDS Inc. has an array of experience with downtown revitalization strategies, planning initiatives, and the application of the internationally accepted Main Street Four-Point Approach® to downtown revitalization. Such services extend across the disciplines of community organization, marketing and promotion, economic development and restructuring, and design and heritage conservation.

Services

• Initial Community Assessment
• Initial Community Assessment
• Start-up consultation
• Ongoing Assessment and Evaluation
• Vision Development
• Design Guidelines
• Planning services
• Work Plan Development
• On-site consulting and coaching services, coordinator and board training
• Streetscape studies, architectural services and studies relating to the historic built environment of the Main Street area
• Main Street Master Plans
• Reporting of key statistics and metric tracking system
• Mid-year and annual reviews of work plan, goals and objectives
• Annual