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Bennington Downtown Area-Wide Plan

The Bennington Downtown Area-Wide Plan provides a guide and vision for economic revitalization of vacant and underutilized sites in downtown Bennington. The plan provides information and analysis on the environmental, infrastructure, and market conditions that is intended to assist economic development partners identify opportunities and challenges presented by the conditions in the downtown area. The plan also presents visions of the redevelopment of key parcels in the area.

The following Story Map aims to provide the community of Bennington with the necessary tools to make the redevelopment of key properties successful. It is intended to summarize the findings and recommendations of the broader planning efforts. Further detail related to the existing conditions, market assessments, and conceptual development plans can be found in the Full Area Wide Plan Report.

 

 

 

Stone has built an interesting story map journal (http://goo.gl/0ww6Se ) as a way to provide interactive public access to the Bennington Downtown Area-Wide Plan. The plan was done by Stone and several partners working with the town, BRPC and other team members. The Story Map Journal provides information and analysis on environmental and market conditions that is intended to assist possible economic development partners identify the opportunities and challenges presented by conditions in the downtown area.  The Journal also presents the visuals and text on the Town’s vision for the redevelopment of a key cluster of parcels in the area as well as implementation steps that will assist the Town and its partners realize a transformation in the area. Mitigation of brownfield environmental conditions will be a big step toward reinvestment in the community and the encouragement of a more healthy and attractive downtown district.

 

Check it out if you have time. We would like feedback/comments/improvement ideas on this concept of providing more engaging access to typically dull reports.

 

Total effort to build this was about 20 hours, mainly because of the number of pages. We feel that 8-10 hours would be average time to build a decent Story Map Journal using the template and tools available on ArcGIS Online.

 

David

                                                                          

David J. Healy | Vice President | Applied Information Management

         

535 Stone Cutters Way, Montpelier, Vermont 05602

802.229.1879 office 978.761.8409 mobile

www.stone-env.com/aim

http://stone-env.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html

 

 

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