ENERGize YOUR MOST VALUABLE PLACES.
Spark Towns identifies, imagines, and implements placemaking projects that deliver results for your community and its economy.
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Place stopped existing as we know it!
The strongest economies are now exercises in social capital—the most vibrant places investing heavily in their own magnetism. Well-designed districts with curated public art installations draw people to them, enabling the serendipity that will become your next local business or perfect new hire. They empower local ownership in a world built for chains and franchises. They improve safety, connection, and pride.
At Spark Towns, we don’t just understand the strategy behind placemaking investments. We are actively changing key places in our partner communities, helping them to grow new energy that will define their next era. We get creative ideas out of your brains and onto your walls!
People today are living and working in different communities. Manufacturing companies are headquartered far away from their essential materials. Students attend college without ever stepping foot on campus. Whole businesses travel with their founders on their phones.
Perhaps it’s impossible
to wear an identity without becoming
what you pretend to be.
Orson Scott Card
WE evaluate place at three levels, BUILDING A STRATEGY to maximize your LOCAL GENIUS.
We work at the neighborhood level to imagine friction zones of high interaction where the best ideas bump into one another.
We work at the building level to imagine power houses that invite people into the ecosystem while providing them resources.
We work at the regional level to evaluate your energy grid, maximizing the flow of power and ensuring equity and access.
Energy READINGS
Time in community is essential to this work. As such, our process emphasizes site visits and stakeholder interviews designed to connect with the people and places that have highest potential to inform your placemaking strategy. Get started with our unique opportunity mapping tool! Spark Towns will spend time in your community talking to your people and learning how your energy flows. We will leave you with a clear map of both your bright spots and your biggest opportunities.
Spark Towns supported the City of Detroit Lakes, MN as they launched both a new arts & culture commission and a new nonprofit focused on quality of life and entrepreneurship. Click on the adjacent images to access those Energy Readings!
Additional SERVICES
Wishing you already lived in a Spark Town? Missing the support you need to bring your big idea to fruition? Spark Towns works directly with innovators to provide idea development and change management services. We love being an extra brain for you as you navigate the change that will take you to the next level. Reach out with projects and proposals and we will work with you to design a program that gets you where you should be.