It’s time to take back your Main Street. Time to fight to restore it. Time to fight for its safe return. I know Main Street hasn’t been stolen, it hasn’t been whisked away in the middle of the night....
Carl Bingham never deployed overseas with his Tank unit. Most likely, because it was too close to the end of the war, but possibly because he was more valuable developing tests that certified the mental state of army personnel....
A majority of my work is interviewing people in a community and turning their stories into social media content in the form of photo essays, videos, and podcasts.Yesterday, I interviewed six people in the City of Saginaw, Michigan. Dawn...
It’s the season of giving so why not do something that gives back to your community every day. Even the smallest daily actions when added up can make a huge difference in your neighborhood and town. It’s easy, you’ll...
By John Paget & Chris Elisara, Founders of First+Main Films Let’s remember something: branding started with cows. Advertising gurus adapted the practice to brand products, and then to brand the makers of products. And now we’re told that branding...
When a dam broke and flooded my town, I was out the door to volunteer at a shelter. My volunteering led to being on calls talking about federal disaster declarations and strategizing how to help my community recover. On...
Branding isn’t marketing When most people hear “branding” what they actually are picturing is marketing. There’s a big difference and this is where communities often go wrong. When branding is approached simply as marketing, it can and should get...
A Look at How Corpus Christi is Flipping the Script on the Role Economic Developers Play By Joe Borgstrom, Principal, Place + Main Advisors If there’s one thing we’ve learned during the COVID crisis, it’s that jobs that we...
The best way I know how to describe the way the quality place affects me is an oft-repeated phrase that’s most likely grown annoying to those that know me: “I am no more neighborly by birth than someone that...
My neighborhood coffee shop owner was born in Atlanta but his family is Colombian. He would travel every summer to their place in the coffee growing region. His grandfather introduced him to coffee and his cousins taught him perfect...
