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Arts-Based Community Development in Greater Philadelphia

Kensington

• Leading – New Kensington CDC
• Involved – Artists & Local Businesses
• Interested – Residents & City Government

• Coral Street Arts House
• Kensington Kinetic Sculpture Derby
• Frankford Ave Artsracks
• Frankford Ave Bench Project
• TART – Transitional Arts Project
• Artists’ Workshops

Media – Delaware County

Leading – Arts Organization Involved – Local Government Involved – Community Members

• Second Saturdays
• Jazz Festival
• Film Festival

• Leading – Various arts groups
• Involved – Local social service organizations
• Interested – City government

City of Chester – Delaware County Hope VI monies will be used to leverage funds to build a new 13,000 sq. ft. cultural center in Chester

Supply Manufacturing industries have left the city, inner-ring boroughs as well as older municipalities far from Center City. Retail districts of cities and small towns have lost business to regional shopping malls and big-box stores that now proliferate in the suburbs. Demand Over the past decade there has been a significant growth in the number of non-profit cultural organizations as well as for-profit creative sector positions. Suburban sprawl! Sprawl has filled the once rural areas of our counties with developments and sub-divisions. The majority of the townships that have grown up in our region have no identifiable town center.

Three kinds of Cultural Districts: Facilities Anchored Districts

• North Adams, MA
• Doylestown

Heritage & Natural Districts

• Fells Point
• Village of Arts & Humanities

Cultural Production & Creative Industry Districts

• Millville, NJ
• Pawtucket, RI

Margaret J. Wyszomirski & Wayne P. Lawson, The Ohio State University Arts Policy & Administration Program Presentation for the Districts & Culture Conference, December, 2008

Many Cultural districts are hybrid combinations of more than

• ne model

Cultural District initiatives can have many points of origin but eventually require ongoing collaborative governance and support

Rhode Island Arts & Entertainment District Legislation (1998) Artists are exempted from paying state sales tax or state personal income tax on the sale of any work created within the district Galleries are exempt from paying state sales tax on the sale of

• riginal, one-of-a-kind works of art,

whether or not the works were created within the boundaries of the arts district.

Maryland Cultural District Legislation (2001) Exemptions from local admissions and amusement taxes Property tax credits for renovations

• f existing buildings

Opportunities to receive funding from the Maryland Economic Development Assistance and Authority Fund

Business Improvement Districts Community Development Block Grants Community Development Corporations Easement/Right of Way tradeoff Easements Empire Zones (New York State) Empowerment Zone - accelerated depreciation Enterprise Zones Federal Energy Credits Financing: Urban renewal, façade, etc. grants Historic preservation tax Credits Incentive Zoning - Density Bonus Incentive Zoning - Upzone bonus Income Tax abatement Innovation Zones Low Income Tax Credits - artists work/living space Low interest loans from municipalities Main Street Programs Marketing Campaigns Microfinancing New Development property tax abatement Overlay districts Property Tax Abatement Public/Private partnerships Reposition state funding mechanisms (e.g. bed tax) Sale of Municipally-owned stock (e.g. $1 houses) Sales tax exemptions Small Business assistance Tax Increment Financing Zoning - overlays, technical assistance, relaxing standards

Excerpted from list created at AFTA - Districts & Culture Conference December, 2008 Columbus, OH

Creating Arts/Cultural/Entertainment Districts – Possible Tools

“Cultural development and economic development… share one salient characteristic… they are both in the business of making reality rather than accepting reality.”

• -- Joseph Thompson, the Founding Director of MASS MoCA