Placemaking Webinars Series

Our Placemaking webinar series will feature the country’s noted placemaking specialists and REALTORS^® involved in Placemaking to provide additional guidance so you can implement a Placemaking activity in your community. Register for an upcoming webinar or listen to the recorded version of a webinar that has already taken place.

• Make your Community a More Walkable Place
  Walkable communities are becoming the latest trend in real estate. A walkable community is one in which residents can get to grocery stores, shops, schools, work, cafes, and parks by walking, biking or taking public transit. Realtors® need to be aware of how walkable communities may affect their business and the future of real estate. Get the details on what makes a great walkable community; walkability’s impact on real estate; the demand for walkable communities; Walk Scores and MLS; and one community's strategy to become more walkable. Listen to the webinar.
  

• REALTORS® in Action
  Our Placemaking Micro-grant has been up and running for almost two years and we have approved over $300,000 in projects in over 30 states. Many of these projects have been completed and the communities, as well as the REALTOR® Associations who have worked on these placemaking projects, are seeing outcomes. Join us to hear about the placemaking projects four local REALTOR® Associations participated in including a description of their project; involvement of the Association, members and partners; and outcomes and community responses. You just may get an idea for a placemaking project in your community. The webinar is free and will be held on December 8 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm eastern.  Listen to the webinar.

• Reactivating Vacant Properties into Community Spaces
  Is your community faced with blighted and vacant properties that are disrupting the neighborhood's sense of community and lowering property values?  Then tune in to NAR’s next Placemaking webinar which will focus on how address and deal with vacant properties, specifically vacant lots.  After a brief overview of vacant properties and the negative impact on a community, you will hear from several organizations, including a REALTOR® association, on how they are transforming vacant and abandoned lots into community open spaces and vibrant gathering places.  Listen to the Webinar. 

• Streets as Places
  Streets make up more than 80 percent of the public space in our downtowns and no public space works harder than our streets.  But, streets need to do more than just move cars.  Streets need to be designed to meet the needs of people and create great places where people meet, sit, socialize, relax, wander about, play and more. Find out how to transform the streets in your community into great places with a variety of tools including street painting, parklets, plazas, block parties, seating, and other activities. Listen to the webinar.

• Community Outreach Leads to Commercial Revitalization
  Discover how engaging communities in downtown revitalization can lead to leasing/sales of vacant buildings and other positive impacts on commercial real estate development. Targeted efforts involving REALTOR® associations, REALTORS® and community organizations - including a Better Block tactical urbanism event, a Main Street® planning approach, and a tour of vacant properties – have resulted in positive economic changes and are strengthening communities. Listen to the webinar.

• Revitalizing with Main Street^®
  Main Street^® is a unique economic development tool that enables communities to revitalize downtown and neighborhood business districts by leveraging local assets.  This approach focuses on traditional commercial districts in a community and can help address vacant properties and other revitalization challenges.   Get an overview of  Main Street^®  and hear from two of your REALTOR^® peers who have initiated a Main Street^® program in their communities to help revitalize their downtowns.  Listen to the webinar.
• How to Build a Better Block
  Learn the ins and outs of a Build a Better Block project which involves a group of community stakeholders and volunteers organizing and making visible changes to a place over a day or two such as cleaning up litter, planting flowers, installing benches, and maybe launching temporary businesses called pop-ups in vacant storefronts. Listen to the Webinar.

• Lighter, Quicker Cheaper
  Find out how to take small, incremental, low cost steps to quickly turn your community's vision into reality and build momentum for further improvements.” Lighter Quicker Cheaper (LQC) is an approach involving several small projects in a neighborhood where, taken together, will make the neighborhood a better place to live, work and play. These hands-on projects can be proposed and finished in months or