Arts-Based Community Development in Greater Philadelphia - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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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

City of Chester – Delaware County • Leading – Various arts groups • Involved – Local social service organizations • Interested – City government 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 one 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 original, 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 of existing buildings � Opportunities to receive funding from the Maryland Economic Development Assistance and Authority Fund

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

“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