{"product_id":"shaping-a-city-ithaca-new-york-a-developers-perspective-9781501730146","title":"Shaping a City: Ithaca, New York, a Developer's Perspective","description":"\u003cp\u003ePicture your downtown vacant, boarded up, while the malls surrounding your city are thriving. What would you do?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1974 the politicians, merchants, community leaders, and business and property owners, of Ithaca, New York, joined together to transform main street into a pedestrian mall. Cornell University began an Industrial Research Park to keep and attract jobs. Developers began renovating run-down housing. City Planners crafted a long-range plan utilizing State legislation permitting a Business Improvement District (BID), with taxing authority to raise up to 20 percent of the City tax rate focused on downtown redevelopment.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShaping a City\u003c\/i\u003e is the behind-the-scenes story of one developer's involvement, from first buying and renovating small houses, gradually expanding his thinking and projects to include a recognition of the interdependence of the entire city--jobs, infrastructure, retail, housing, industry, taxation, banking and City Planning. It is the story of how he, along with other local developers transformed a quiet, economically challenged upstate New York town into one that is recognized nationally as among the best small cities in the country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe lessons and principles of personal relationships, cooperation and collaboration, the importance of density, and the power of a Business Improvement District to catalyze change, are ones you can take home for the development and revitalization of your city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell Publishing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501730146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.81lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.25h x 7.25w x 1.00d","brand":"Mack Travis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41500135096501,"sku":"9781501730146","price":30.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_8d67b321-6d83-43f1-8665-3e7929f99071.jpg?v=1641273173","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/shaping-a-city-ithaca-new-york-a-developers-perspective-9781501730146","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}