Creating a Sociable City

The sociable city nurtures hospitality zones where people of diverse ages, incomes and lifestyles unite as a community to share food, beverages, music and dance.

 

Leaders Unite to Solve Challenges - Capture Opportunity

A unique forum for state and local leaders to share strategies on how to plan, manage and police hospitality zones in downtown districts.

A poorly managed hospitality zone generates negative impacts by increasing risk to safety, draining resources for police and maintenance, and inhibiting development.

Unplanned and unmanaged hospitality zones:

  • Drive away residents and daytime businesses

  • Reduce property values

  • Create negative perceptions of safety

  • Facilitate underage drinking

  • Increase impaired driving impacts and traffic congestion

  • Generate more fights, crime and public disorder at closing time

  • Intensify complaints about noise, vandalism, trash, litter and public urination

 

  
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