Middletown
Middletown is a community in southwest Ohio between Cincinnati and Dayton along the important I-75 corridor. It has a strong identity based on an independent industrial base focused around steel and paper manufacturing. For decades wonderful cultural arts and community festivals were supported by individual and corporate citizens. The community had a diverse population with people from a wide range of income levels living together in town. Over the past 30 years things have changed and the community is coming to understand that to move in a positive way Middletown will have to create new ways of doing business, and include a much wider segment of the community in decision-making and community change.

For more information on Middletown, please visit the City of Middletown website.

To implement place matters in Middletown the recommendation was to include the entire west side of Middletown as the planning area and to create three distinct focus neighborhoods (For more on this selection process click here):

1. Downtown
2. the Douglass Park neighborhood, and
3. the Damon Park /Amanda neighborhood.

The 3 place matters focus neighborhoods.

The projects supported by place matters in Middletown are different for each focus neighborhood.

DOWNTOWN GOALS

1. Market & Promote Downtown's Assets & Events

2. Improve the Physical Conditions of Specific Buildings.

3. Target Buildings are Occupied with Users.

DAMON PARK GOALS

1. Improve relationships and form partnerships within the community.

2. Nurture the success of our children.

3. Identify community resources and needs.

4. Promote healthy, sustainable living.

DOUGLASS PARK GOALS

1. Support moms through connections to an early childhood development network.

2. Work with young adults to build leadership, character and pride.

3. Create and support a comprehensive communications network.


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