The town in May 2010 secured Michael Sparks, a previous town consultant and writer of a revitalization feasibility study, as Director of Economic and Community Development to revitalize downtown and attract tourism.

The reasons given were lower county taxes, better services provided to the town, and a need for revitalization.

As one of the six cities selected in Tennessee for downtown revitalization, extensive work is being done around the town square and adjacent areas.

The town recently received a Main Street designation from the state, and a $ 1 million downtown revitalization project started in 2008.

The town has recently undergone a revitalization process, which has included Appomattox County library bringing in an Annex site to the former Pamplin City Train Depot used by the Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company.

The primary goals of a community network may include providing a sustainable, trusted platform for an urban neighborhood, suburban village or exurban town or region to enhance a vital community and functioning democracy ; closing of the digital divide across socio-economic lines ; offering easier access to already existing information and services ; promotion of local economic development and employment ; strengthening of local identity ; and / or revitalization, promotion, and / or maintenance of local communal ties.

Long considered to be just a mostly rural, drive-by town for drivers who were going from San Juan to the western part of Puerto Rico, Guaynabo went through a large economic revitalization in the 1950s and 1960s.

The village, the town of Hamilton, and Colgate have formed the Partnership for Community Development which develops an active network of professional consultants, foundations, municipalities and not-for-profit organizations located throughout the Central New York region to assist area residents, businesses and visitors, including efforts to stimulate and support local business through small business development and the revitalization of historic buildings.

The town also has a fresh water lake, Chapman's Pond, which is undergoing revitalization.

The town has undergone a widespread reconditioning of these homes since the mid-1990s, when an altercation over redevelopment rights attracted substantial news coverage about Stonington's revitalization.

Additionally, his hometown Hokuei has done several machi okoshi ( town revitalization ) projects in honor of his contribution as a manga artist and resident of the town.

Asbury Park's boardwalk is in the process of revitalization and has recently been connected to the neighboring town of Ocean Grove, New Jersey.

These factors create continuing tensions between town and gown, but in some scenarios, the university and the local community work together in revitalization projects.

Several local organizations seek to promote the tourism opportunities of the town, improve tourist and vacation infrastructure, and plan for the long-term economic revitalization of the town.

When World War 2 ended, the local economy began to experience revitalization by way of subsidies from Federal Belgrade.

In the 1980s and 1990s the Community Action Committee, headed by Ed Conway, a longtime resident of Lakeview, began a revitalization of the community.

As of 2006, Downtown Wayne began to undergo a revitalization & growth program, with the assistance of Andrews University-Urban Design Studio.

As the suburban landscape developed during the 20th century and the outer city became a refuge for the wealthy and, later, the burgeoning middle class, sociologists began to study the structure and revitalization of the most impoverished areas of the inner city.

By the end of the 20th century and beginning of the 21st, revitalization and gentrification of historic neighborhoods attracted an increase in middle-class population as people began to return to the city.

For example, a modern revitalization of the rímur tradition began in 1929 with the formation of the organization Iðunn.

The recession that began in 2008 has hampered revitalization, and the La Reunion development was canceled.

The movement's revitalization began in 1974 with Eli Joseph and the assistance of Eric Graus and George Evnine.

A revitalization and reforestation program began in 2005.

A revitalization began as urban pioneers moved into the then-cheap neighborhood and restored the Victorian-style homes.

In 1993, as part of a revitalization effort, Inakadate began creating tanbo art, murals of art using rice paddy fields.

Starting in the 1960s, revitalization efforts began, spearheaded by the LDS Church, who had always considered downtown their home.

In 2007, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, in collaboration with McNeese State University and the College of William and Mary, began the Koasati ( Coushatta ) Language Project as a part of broader language revitalization efforts with National Science Foundation grant money under the Documenting Endangered Languages program.

As mayor Decore eliminated the city's Board of Commissioners-handing more power to its elected city council-put in place a fiscal program that would eliminate the city's debt, took key major steps which began downtown revitalization and won a high-profile battle with the Province of Alberta over the city-owned telephone company's right to a fair share of long distance revenue.

In the 1990s, Manayunk's revitalization began with the opening of several upscale restaurants on Main Street, which were backed by developers who promoted the neighborhood as a place to visit.

began revitalization of the A & W brand of hamburgers and root beer.

However, renovation began in 1993, and under the direction of Ray Shepardson, who had been influential in Playhouse Square's revitalization during the 1970s, the Hanna reopened in March 1996-the 75th anniversary of its original opening.

Beginning in 2006, the CVCBDMA began to divest its housing and economic revitalization programs, transferring them to the Greater Homewood Community Corporation.

In 1985, the establishment of the Center for Interfaith Relations ( formerly the Cathedral Heritage Foundation ) began a push for renovation of existing facilities, expansion of the Cathedral complex, and revitalization of the Cathedral's mission to the broader community as a spiritual center in Louisville.

Laith has been accorded the historical status of a popular folk hero since his court began the revitalization of the Persian language after two centuries in which the Arabic language flourished in Persian lands.

In the 1990s, revitalization of Adams Morgan and later Logan Circle began.

Noble became the new President of the four year old franchise and began a complete revitalization of the organization.

Under Caliguiri's leadership, Pittsburgh began its " Renaissance II " plan, an urban renewal and revitalization plan based on the “ Renaissance ” plan of former mayor and governor David L. Lawrence.

began as a downtown revitalization project to redesign and modernize the former Louisville Galleria, a similar but unsuccessful project opened in the early 1980s with the same goals of revitalizing downtown.

After the current government of Hamid Karzai took over in late 2001, there has been significant progress toward revitalization of the national military, with two official branches established.

After ownership of the Meridian Main Street was transferred to the Alliance for Downtown Meridian in late 2007, the two organizations, along with the Meridian Downtown Association, spearheaded the downtown revitalization effort.

Despite having lost many factory jobs in the late 20th century, Searcy has recently experienced an economic revitalization.

Cathedral City had a downtown revitalization program started in the late 1990s, with much completed by 2005.

A significant period of urban renewal and revitalization followed in the mid to late 1990s.

As a result of the clean-up efforts, nightlife in the area dwindled though it has picked up of late with the help of the emergence of the nearby Malate district and the Roxas Boulevard revitalization efforts along Manila Bay.

In the late 1960s, the city of Indianapolis studied several market areas of the city for future development and revitalization.

A 20-year period of aggressive restoration and revitalization followed, marked by several high-profile exhibit openings, including The Ford African Rain Forest, in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

A rising economy and gentrification in the late 1990s and early 2000s led to revitalization of many downtown neighborhoods.

A revitalization program was initiated in the late part of the 2000s to rationalize and upgrade existing aircraft, resulting in a competition between ATR and Bombardier to supply the necessary equipment that met the needs of the archipelago.

As a part of the revitalization to the school in the late 1970s, the school's name was changed to its current name, and Orchard Street in front of the school was closed to create a mall between neighboring Oz Park and Armitage Street.

In late in 1955 the Third Avenue El was demolished and the city embarked on a revitalization of the Bowery.

He was responsible for the short-lived renaissance of the school as a whole in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and of the widespread revitalization of the Zhentong theory in particular.