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10:30 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Annual Statewide Conference
11/3/2022 - 11/4/202210:30 AM - 4:30 PM EST
Event Description
Join us in downtown Muskegon during our Annual Statewide Conference to be held Thursday, November 3 and Friday, November 4, 2022.
FULL AGENDA AVAILABLE HERE
Annual Conference
Restoring Michigan Downtowns:
The Rejuvenation of Downtown Properties, Organizational Budgets, and YOU!
Downtown is the community’s center, its heartbeat. How can you ensure that your community’s core remains vibrant, healthy, and evolving? For that matter, how do downtown managers continue to grow, remain positive, and make positive change? Join us for our Annual Conference held in Downtown Muskegon, a downtown that exemplifies Rejuvenation and Vigor, and learn how taking care of downtown (and you) now helps to create a promising future.
An in-person and virtual attendance option is available (the cost is the same).
Session Topics Include
Real Estate Development
How to Get Property Owners to Fix Buildings
Working Together
Historic Preservation Designation and Incentives
Brownfields
Alternative Funding for DDAs
Community Foundations and Downtown Organizations
PLUS
Implementing DEI in YOUR Community
Due to overwhelming requests, Kenneth James returns to the MDA stage to continue honest discussion regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this interactive session, participants will review the terms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Practical concepts of how to start or continue DEI initiatives will be shared and participants will leave with ideas on how to implement or continue DEI in their respective communities.
Ken James, Chief Diversity Officer, Muskegon Community College
Take This Job And…
A Conversation with Michigan Main Street Managers
As if downtown management didn’t already have its challenges, the last few years have brought even more uncertainty, stress, and long hours to the job of ‘Director’. In this session, we will hear from Main Street directors who have discovered ways of managing stress while keeping forward momentum during the last two years with the support of Michigan Main Street resources.
We will have a walking tour of downtown Muskegon and a networking event at the Frauenthal Center on Thursday evening.
Cost
MDA Member before October 29, $205
After October 29, $230
Non Member before October 29, $230
After October 29, $250
Cost is the same for in-person and virtual attendance. Cost includes lunch on Thursday, Networking Event on Thursday (appetizers, cash bar) and Continental Breakfast on Friday.
FULL AGENDA AVAILABLE HERE
Annual Conference
Restoring Michigan Downtowns:
The Rejuvenation of Downtown Properties, Organizational Budgets, and YOU!
Downtown is the community’s center, its heartbeat. How can you ensure that your community’s core remains vibrant, healthy, and evolving? For that matter, how do downtown managers continue to grow, remain positive, and make positive change? Join us for our Annual Conference held in Downtown Muskegon, a downtown that exemplifies Rejuvenation and Vigor, and learn how taking care of downtown (and you) now helps to create a promising future.
An in-person and virtual attendance option is available (the cost is the same).
Session Topics Include
Real Estate Development
How to Get Property Owners to Fix Buildings
Working Together
Historic Preservation Designation and Incentives
Brownfields
Alternative Funding for DDAs
Community Foundations and Downtown Organizations
PLUS
Implementing DEI in YOUR Community
Due to overwhelming requests, Kenneth James returns to the MDA stage to continue honest discussion regarding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In this interactive session, participants will review the terms Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). Practical concepts of how to start or continue DEI initiatives will be shared and participants will leave with ideas on how to implement or continue DEI in their respective communities.
Ken James, Chief Diversity Officer, Muskegon Community College
Take This Job And…
A Conversation with Michigan Main Street Managers
As if downtown management didn’t already have its challenges, the last few years have brought even more uncertainty, stress, and long hours to the job of ‘Director’. In this session, we will hear from Main Street directors who have discovered ways of managing stress while keeping forward momentum during the last two years with the support of Michigan Main Street resources.
We will have a walking tour of downtown Muskegon and a networking event at the Frauenthal Center on Thursday evening.
Cost
MDA Member before October 29, $205
After October 29, $230
Non Member before October 29, $230
After October 29, $250
Cost is the same for in-person and virtual attendance. Cost includes lunch on Thursday, Networking Event on Thursday (appetizers, cash bar) and Continental Breakfast on Friday.