Announced back in July of this year, the Downtown Raleigh Alliance (DRA) and the city have partnered with a few consultants to create a plan for Downtown as the last few years have seen unanticipated changes. The largest of those being the uptick in remote and hybrid work and how downtown businesses were reliant on a certain number of workers coming to the office and frequenting them for lunch and goods. It is also a great time for a new plan as the previous downtown plan was implemented in 2015 and plenty of policies and recommendations from that one have already been put in place.
The new plan has four key focus areas which include:
Providing a retail strategy for downtown with a focus on the Fayetteville Street corridor
Defining opportunities to support a thriving Minority and Women Owned Business community
Examination and strategic positioning of the downtown office market
Identification of catalytic projects to stimulate and grow the Downtown Raleigh economy
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