MEDC Redevelopment Ready Communities Resilience Toolkit

Michigan Economic Development Corporation (MEDC) and SmithGroup

Planning can be a heavy lift for communities with limited staff and resources. The RRC Resilience Toolkit includes a self-evaluation and set of goals, metrics, and actions that communities can use to incorporate resilient strategies into their next plan, policy, or assessment. It also focuses on helping often overwhelmed communities expand capacity by focusing on partnerships and implementation with a series of strategies to identify shovel-ready projects and funding opportunities. Jurors said, "This is the first significant effort by a State agency to congregate those approaches to establish a replicable approach that is both indicative of the current cultural and political expectations and calls for in-depth public engagement for a result that is specific to a community or project."  MAP congratulates MEDC and SmithGroup!