PLANNING

PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE SHOULD BE FUN

We engage stakeholders in fun and creative ways to capture the spirit of the community’s values, vision and goals.

EXPERIENCED PARTNERS. LOCAL EXPERTS.

The collective experience of DPN team members and partners brings a multi-disciplined perspective and approach to planning for community, downtown and neighborhood business district initiatives. We like to create an air of excitement that makes it fun for community leaders and stakeholders – the local experts – to participate in meaningful ways.

We become active partners in your community’s initiative, working closely with you to develop creative strategies and ptractical solutions that can be readily implemented at the local level.

OUR APPROACH

Our interactive and economic-driven approach to planning challenges communities and organizations to elevate their vision and plan for success.

Our approach builds upon each community’s past work and facilitates the creation of plans and strategies that are locally recognized and embraced as each community’s own – the product of your vision, creativity and ingenuity.

We understand the complexities associated with the development of plans and strategies. Plans that are primarily design-based in nature usually fail to adequately address the broader range of issues and factors that are, at least, equally important in determining a community’s or district’s level of prosperity.

Our team analyzes social and economic factors, investors’ attitudes, local issues, and regulations related to public improvements, private investment, marketing, and each strategy’s overall implementation.

UNIQUE SKILLS. MULTI-DISCIPLINED.

We bring unique skills and experience to the task of creating effective plans and strategies:

We have a strong track record in community, downtown and neighborhood business district planning, redevelopment, management and marketing.
We bring the unique perspective of a private sector developers with extensive experience in rehabilitation and redevelopment projects.
We have developed practical methods and techniques for involving the public and decision-makers to build consensus.
We understand how to create links between planning and implementation.
We recognize the importance of communicating plans and designs in ways that can be easily understood by the community.

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Actionable Solutions

DPN strives to understand the client’s needs and collaborates with their clients to create actionable solutions. The downtown St. Charles plan’s guiding principles and goals have remained useful even as situations have changed, and the action steps enabled us to set priorities and mark progress.