Approaches to VAD property – Presentation at Tampa Bay Partnership

Thank you to the planners at the Downtown Tampa Partnership! Their planning intern, Bryan, took up the task of exploring ways Tampa and other cities around the US deal with VAD property.

The playbook we use to manage VAD property covers the whole city. That includes underserved residential areas, but that also includes high density neighborhoods in the urban core like Downtown and Ybor. There is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to this, and learning about the creative solutions from other cities was enlightening. Bryan’s findings also validated much of the information on vibrantplaces.org, bolstering the confidence readers can have in the validity of this work.

Excited to see this effort snowball into real change that can improve people’s lives.