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February 15, 2010 Meeting. Revitalizing the Heart of Harrison and Boone County C.O.R.E.

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1 February 15, 2010 Meeting

2 Revitalizing the Heart of Harrison and Boone County C.O.R.E

3 Revitalizing the Heart of a Community ► WHY? ► HOW? ► WHO?

4 WHY? Revitalizing the Heart of a Community

5 Heart of a Community ► Gathering place for events and celebrations

6 Heart of a Community ► Provides access to important services MunicipalGovernmentalMedical Historic & Cultural Conference Center Banking Services ► Conveys uniqueness

7 High tide raises all boats

8 Model Communities Revitalization of downtown can: ► Lead to a vibrant, healthy community & county ► Draw people to visit, live, and work ► Become a catalyst for jobs & economic development

9 HOW? Revitalizing the Heart of a Community

10 Revitalizing the Heart of the Community ► Recognize & leverage existing strengths ► Create a vision with community wide participation ► Partner with experts ► Develop a master plan & implementation strategy

11 C.O.R.E. Leveraging Strengths ► Access to important services ► Recent C.O.R.E. developments  Hospital Expansion  Durand Center  Hotel Seville Renovation  FNB Berryville Opening

12 Partner with Experts C.O.R.E. and Breakthrough Solutions ► Breakthrough Solutions is program of the University of Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service  BS is a strategic planning program  C.O.R.E. selected as the first pilot community for the new program

13 WHO? Revitalizing the Heart of a Community

14 C.O.R.E. ► Initiated by John Paul Hammerschmidt ► Everyone is invited to participate ► Activities are transparent ► Supports the City of Harrison & Boone County ► Hub & Spoke Structure

15 Spokes ► Community Assessment- ► Destination Harrison – ► Entrepreneurship – ► Funding – ► Infrastructure – ► Marketing – ► Quality of Life – ► Retail –

16 Together We have defined the C.O.R.E

17 WE NEED YOU! Revitalizing the Heart of a Community

18 C.O.R.E. Action Plan for Revitalization Community input (surveys) through April 1 Develop Master Plan Hold Summit Event June 2010

19 We need you to: Complete a survey Attend meetings every 3 rd Monday of the month Stay up-to-date on developments Get involved by serving on a Spoke Revitalizing the Heart of a Community


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