Downtown Market Analysis and Revitalization Strategy Services

The buyer requires downtown market analysis and revitalization strategy services to support long-term economic growth. The requested scope includes evaluating existing downtown market conditions, assessing business mix, retail leakage, vacancy, consumer demographics, and spending patterns. The selected vendor must collect economic data, conduct stakeholder interviews or surveys, analyze tourism and regional market opportunities, and benchmark against comparable rural downtown communities. Additionally, the buyer expects actionable recommendations, business attraction and retention strategies, an implementation roadmap, and funding recommendations to address housing, placemaking, redevelopment, and economic resilience. The buyer restricts eligibility to onshore United States organizations only. The vendor will perform all work offsite. The buyer seeks proposal submissions for the budget and sets a deadline for all questions on September 29, 2026.