RIVER STREET PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
Lead Planner. Margaret Irwin, Principal
River Street Planning and Development is a professional planning firm that focuses on consensus and capacity building, comprehensive planning, community and economic development and resilience. River Street will conduct comprehensive public outreach to ensure extensive community feedback is gathered and heard.
RIVER STREET PLANNING & DEVELOPMENT
Lead Planner. Margaret Irwin, Principal
River Street Planning and Development is a professional planning firm that focuses on consensus and capacity building, comprehensive planning, community and economic development and resilience. River Street will conduct comprehensive public outreach to ensure extensive community feedback is gathered and heard.

NYS is investing $200 million in up to 20 downtown neighborhoods across the State. The Downtown Revitalization Initiative (DRI) is investing $200 million in 20 downtowns statewide. Its goal is to boost local economies by transforming vibrant neighborhoods where the next generation of New Yorkers will want to live, work and raise a family. The Capital Regional Economic Development Councils (REDCs) will choose one or two downtowns that are ripe for revitalization. We want to hear from you about your passion for our Town and ready-to-go projects including public infrastructure that will help us reach our full potential. Opportunities that attract residents, workers and visitors and address needed public improvements like flood mitigation and municipal services may be identified in our proposal, which is due on September 15, 2021. You can read more about the program at
https://www.ny.gov/programs/downtown-revitalization-initiative
To be competitive we MUST document community interest and support. We are building on the 2016 Copake Downtown Design and Development Plan and the 2021 Town of Copake Waterfront and Community Revitalization Plan but we need your input focusing on downtown Copake. Help us tell Copake’s great story.
PLEASE JOIN US
Thursday, September 9, 2021
5:30 PM
Join with Google Meet at meet.google.com/cjp-agyn-mss
Join by phone at (US) +1 929-299-4231 (PIN: 387144040)
For more information, please contact Supervisor Jeanne Mettler at:
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LIVE, WORK & PLAY in Downtown Copake
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Identify Preliminary Projects for the Proposal
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Why Us? Why Now? What for?