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Smart Growth America Application for Small-Scale Manufacturing

On January 6th, 2017, the City’s Office of Redevelopment, Community Development, and the Knoxville/Knox County Metropolitan Planning Commission applied to SGA for technical assistance to help integrate small-scale manufacturing into the Magnolia Avenue Warehouse District (MAWD). Historically, factories have been viewed as large, polluting, and isolated structures, but are now giving way to new models that are clean, small, and can be readily integrated with other land uses. Smart Growth America’s technical assistance would provide recommendations on how to better re-purpose the warehouse district for small-scale manufacturing and placed-based economic development.

If selected, SGA will facilitate a two-to-three-day workshop and provide a customized action plan that identifies next steps and resources available for implementation. The workshops will be designed to help identify existing assets and how they can be harnessed to develop small-scale manufacturing in the MAWD. The assistance also includes stakeholder interviews that will be incorporated into the final report.

Successful proposers will be notified on or by January 27, 2017. Expect more news to follow if Knoxville is selected.

For a link to the submitted application (click here).

Posted by bberry On 25 January, 2017 at 10:05 AM