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Report
Why Erie’s Downtown is a Proxy for the Nation: The Future of Main Street Businesses amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
24 Mar 2020
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.17918/00010532
Abstract
The challenge of how to keep local economies from cratering in the COVID-19 crisis is evolving - we don't know when the pandemic will abate and what the state of our cities will be when it does. The story of Erie presented here is a microcosm of the challenges many cities are facing across the nation. It shows how a community writ large – and a group of remarkable, passionate entrepreneurs, and city builders – have been able to restore a sense of civic pride and purpose and put a city back on track, and how that years-long effort is at risk of reversal in a matter of weeks.
As federal emergency responses move to ground, we have a simple test that we will apply for the nation. Do these measures work for thousands of downtowns and main streets like Erie? Do they respond to the real-world calculations of small business owners? And do they ultimately harness the collective power and capacity of communities both to mitigate the damage and drive the future?
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- Title
- Why Erie’s Downtown is a Proxy for the Nation: The Future of Main Street Businesses amidst the COVID-19 Crisis
- Creators
- Bruce J Katz - Drexel University, Nowak Metro Finance LabBen Speggen - Jefferson Educational Society (United States, Erie)
- Publisher
- Nowak Metro Finance Lab, Drexel University; Philadelphia, PA
- Number of pages
- 12
- Resource Type
- Report
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Nowak Metro Finance Lab; Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation
- Other Identifier
- 991021902315704721