+ Placemaking Opportunity Map

Our opportunity mapping process helps you see the best opportunities to strengthen the identity of the places you love.

+ Public Art Installations

From design through implementation, CREATE can walk you through the public art process, delivering a project that has layers of impact.

+ Community or District Branding

Draw people into places by developing a brand. The right choices can have collective impact for the businesses and experiences within it.

+ Neighborhood Identity

Foster stronger social cohesion within residential neighborhoods by giving those neighborhoods a name, a logo, a flag, a mural, or more.

+ Digital Storytelling

New storytelling is digital. Empower your podcasters, videographers and more to build excitement through new storytelling.

+ Influencer Networks

It's all about your people. Help grow local influencers and cross pollinate their feeds to elevate new influencers in your community.

+ New Media Platform

Elevate the visibility of your local media makers by developing a shared platform to share out their content.

+ Surge Business Accelerator

Surge takes start-ups from idea to up-and-running business.

+ Design or Maker Challenges

Engage your community in design-thinking activities or maker projects that solve local problems or build like-interest networks.

+ Cultural Celebrations

Elevate the unique culture of your community or recognize underrepresented voices through festivals and special events.

+ Phantom Gallery Parties

Transform an unexpected place into an one-night-only art gallery that features local artits and makers.

+ Pop-up Concerts

Bring music to cool places with pop-up concerts in community green spaces or intimate house concerts in living rooms.

+ Night Markets

Create opportunities for artists, makers, and producers to sell their wares and pop-up markets that draw in customers.

+ Festivals or Series

Plan all-day, weekly, or monthly programming that builds community through film, music, or other entertainment.

+ Block Parties and Movie Screenings

Strenghten the identity of neighborhoods and commercial districts with block parties that activate public or green spaces.

+ Regional Network and Opportunity Map

Our opportunity mapping process engages the innovators in your community to map out resources and programming that would strenghten your ecosystem.

+ IDEA Centers

We developed the IDEA Center to blend big-city innovation spaces into a single model that thrives in small places. Launch a full center or a smaller satelite location.

+ Co-working Spaces

Remote work and telecommuniting are norms of the new economy. Work with us to imagine and implement spaces in your community that support this shift.

+ Maker Spaces

Shared access to the right technology can accelerate business ventures and build more social capital. Plan those spaces with us.

+ Networks & Meet-ups

The right person is your best path around an obstacle. We map out and strengthen the networks and meet-ups that provide access to human resources.

+ EDI Library

Ensure that all residents and businesses have accesss to the fundamentals of equity, diversity, and inclusion by building a resource library.

+ Talent Network

Every community has a wealth of knowledge and experience in its residents. Map out who knows what and help people connect to one another.

+ Mobile Maker Kits

Our mobile maker kits are designed to move fluidly across the network. Sign up to be a pick-up location and make our resources available to your creatives.

+ Grant Writing Support and Collaboration

Grow resources for local impact, and expore what's possible by writing and submitting for grants cooperatively.

+ Small Place Plans

Small place plans apply placemaking concepts to districts and neighborhoods within communities with the hope of pulling out their greatest potential.

+ Arts-& Infrastructure

Add vibrancy to your community by seeing trash cans, bike hitches and racks, electrical boxes, roundabouts and other infrastructure as opportunities for public art.

+ Innovation District Planning

The days of the business parks are numbered. Contemporary planning values high-density innovation districts to spark interaction between businesses, people, and ideas.

+ Green & Public Space Planning

Like good public art, a well-planned green or public space should have layered impact. Work with us to pull out identity assets and incorporate features that have impact.

+ Gentle Density & Other Housing

The new resident wants more urban housing options even in rural places. We are figuring out housing projects that meet this need while honoring the existing culture of small places.

+ 15-Minute Neighborhoods

Work with CREATE to complete walkability audits. See how well your community supports the 15-minute neighborhood and make plans to improve based on the results.

+ Percent for Place

Percent for Arts programs create resources for public art based on public sector capital improvements. Our Percent for Place revamp expands the impact of these funds.

+ Wayfinding

Think beyond signs and arrows. Leverage public art and community branding to move residents and visitors more successfully through your community.