So, I see my post about Dead Towns was very popular.
So my family has been in the commercial real estate business and city planning business for a century, so I do have some knowledge about things.
So Ill share some ideas on how to build up towns that are in the beginning stages of starting to die.
First, hold a town meeting. Tell them the town needs to work together to gather up all the trash, overgrown vegetation, and junk in the town.
Second, invest some Tax Money into renting 10 big Dumpsters and placing them in a vacant lot and send postcards to all residents to bring all their clean up junk to them. replace them as they fill up.
Third, Separate out metals and take that to a recyclers for money.
Fourth, After the Dumpsters are finished and gone, invite people to bring all their still usable furniture and junk to that Vacant Lot and put a Lot Sale Ad in all the papers in the area and sell all the stuff the townsfolk bring in.
What all 4 things do, is make people work together, like Stone Soup, and get rid of Eye Sores and bring back pride.
Fifth, here are some creative ideas to bring tourists and people into your town.
The Mayor and other Govt people meet and brainstorm to decide on the following:
- A Tourist Gimmick
- Local Lore
- Food & Music
- A Reason To Have A Festival
- A Lure For Fitness Junkies.
- A Nature Trail
Ill give examples:
- Find out everything you can about the town, Examine blueprints, Newspapers.com, Maps, Google Streetview and aerials, Look up everything you can.
- Find out if anyone was famous. Start Ghost Stories, post online about Unexplained things and Murders, that happened in the town Etc
- Leave a house abandoned and plant spooky pics and Fake Urbex online.
- Plant Bigfoot Pics online or create a new creature, like a Wild Zombie horse thats halfman/halfhorse. BUT make it GOOD LUCK if you see it.
- Fake a UFO landing. In the woods with convincing evidence,
- Put No Trespassing signs up to lure URBEX and alien hunters in.
- Announce a Parade to highlight the “Lore”.
- Put up B&Bs, with Alien Museums or Bigfoot crap.
- Plant Ramps near moist land near creeks and rivers and spread exotic mushroom spores and other rare edible plants in strategic places, Lure foragers in. $$$$
- Put out invites to cooking contests for Town Recipe
- Make a claim that an Herb Dip from a hole in the wall restaurant gets womens contractions to start or makes sex fantastic.
- Start offering outside tables at most eateries
- Offer artists to paint murals
- Open a Roller Rink in an empty large building with arcade.
- Have activities for kids. Turn an empty office on Main St into a childrens Rave and Karaoke club, playing Kids Bop CDs and serving Pizza, Nuggets and Fries
- Create addictive special recipes from the town.
- Get horticulturists in to design a hiking nature trail.
- Put a town pool, Tennis, sports, dog park near the trail, Have a field next to it and invite bands in for a free concert.
- Invite Eccentric artists and crafters in.
- Put in a mini theater, a few museums.
- Put up Google Maps pins about it all.
- Post online about the interesting stuff the town has.
Then, once people start coming in
Build worthwhile businesses and Private Clubs
Build Restaurants and Piers on the River.
Invite all young beer brewers to come and build Brew Houses.
Good Luck!
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