Planning for revitalization.

In 2002, the City of Columbus embarked on a process to revitalize our Downtown. The resulting Strategic Business Plan represents a community-wide consensus, containing thousands of citizens' suggestions along with feedback and ideas from hundreds of community and business leaders. Most importantly, it lays out an action plan that represents the first step in re-energizing our most important economic asset: Downtown.

Downtown's renewal requires vision, money, and commitment from both public and private sectors. This plan sets forth an impressive collaboration between the two sectors that will assure success in time for our city's Bicentennial in 2012. The Columbus Downtown Development Corporation, a private, non-profit development corporation, is responsible for implementing the plan.

At its core, the plan is guided by five action strategies that are being implemented in tandem: