COMMUNITY PLANNING
Delta's Community Planning team supports public and private organizations that have an interest in economic growth, comprehensive long-range planning, community revitalization, and sustainable community development.
With each of our engagements, we provide an outside perspective to addressing the unique underlying factors of community and economic viability. Our approach fosters an environment where public and private interests actively participate in project planning, decision-making, and implementation to ensure the long-term growth and sustainability of our client communities.
"Chosen for their knowledge on policy, planning, process, and funding, Delta's team brought connectivity to every element of Messiah College- far beyond the scale of buildings and stewardship of land."
Kathrynne G. Shafer, Vice President of Operations, Messiah College
Kathrynne G. Shafer, Vice President of Operations, Messiah College
Economic Development and Revitalization Strategies
Understanding each community’s unique role in the regional and global economy is at the center of Delta’s economic development and community revitalization strategies. Together, Delta and our clients have successfully repositioned communities in the marketplace and revitalized downtowns and commercial corridors. Leveraging a blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and achievable goal setting, Delta’s team can assist your community in creating a roadmap for equitable, sustainable, and resilient economic growth.
Delta also provides clients with step-by-step processes for implementation and metrics for strategy evaluation, making these strategies and plans living ideas that evolve with community needs and realities.
Understanding each community’s unique role in the regional and global economy is at the center of Delta’s economic development and community revitalization strategies. Together, Delta and our clients have successfully repositioned communities in the marketplace and revitalized downtowns and commercial corridors. Leveraging a blend of quantitative and qualitative analysis, meaningful stakeholder engagement, and achievable goal setting, Delta’s team can assist your community in creating a roadmap for equitable, sustainable, and resilient economic growth.
Delta also provides clients with step-by-step processes for implementation and metrics for strategy evaluation, making these strategies and plans living ideas that evolve with community needs and realities.
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Market and Industry Analysis
The Delta team has a wide breadth of experience in market and industry analysis. Our analyses have provided the foundation for real estate development, Brownfield reuse, revitalization strategies, and public funding initiatives. These analyses require the most up to date information available. Traditional data sources, such as the U.S. Census Bureau, suffer from a “data-lag”, which describes the past rather than the present and future. Delta differentiates ourselves through our investment in analytic tools such as CoStar, Urban Footprint, ESRI, Lightcast, and ArcGIS, to produce data that assesses current and future conditions. Delta’s analysis provides reliable demographic, socioeconomic, housing, industry, and purchasing power forecasts.
Governmental Support of Economic Development Delta can provide guidance to communities to leverage relationships with county and municipal governments to more effectively advance economic development efforts. By synthesizing stakeholder feedback, national case studies, and current conditions, Delta can provide communities best practices for county and municipal coordination of economic development direction and vision. Attributes to be assessed could include codes, regulations, tax structures, permitting, incentives, collaboration, etc. |
Feasibility Analysis
The Delta team assists a variety of clients with assessing the feasibility of their planned or potential capital projects and programs, including counties, municipalities, school districts, career and technical schools, institutions of higher education, authorities, non-profit organizations, and businesses. Delta’s feasibility and assessment studies have assisted clients in developing strategies to strengthen housing markets, create new business opportunities, fill marketplace gaps with new educational programs, and determine the feasibility of capital construction projects. From site selection and market demand, to financial viability and permitting, Delta’s assessments enable clients to make informed decisions to ensure project success. The data summarized in these assessments also allows our clients to best position their projects for public funding opportunities. If a client is seeking additional public funding services, Delta’s skilled team of grant writers can utilize our decades of collective grant writing experience to leverage feasibility analysis and economic impact analysis to clearly convey project benefits.
The Delta team assists a variety of clients with assessing the feasibility of their planned or potential capital projects and programs, including counties, municipalities, school districts, career and technical schools, institutions of higher education, authorities, non-profit organizations, and businesses. Delta’s feasibility and assessment studies have assisted clients in developing strategies to strengthen housing markets, create new business opportunities, fill marketplace gaps with new educational programs, and determine the feasibility of capital construction projects. From site selection and market demand, to financial viability and permitting, Delta’s assessments enable clients to make informed decisions to ensure project success. The data summarized in these assessments also allows our clients to best position their projects for public funding opportunities. If a client is seeking additional public funding services, Delta’s skilled team of grant writers can utilize our decades of collective grant writing experience to leverage feasibility analysis and economic impact analysis to clearly convey project benefits.
Economic Impact Analysis/Benefit-Cost Analysis
Economic impact analysis is a cornerstone of conveying the positive economic impacts of a capital construction project or initiative. Using the Delta team’s collective education and experience in the fields of business, economics, planning, and municipal management, our team can perform in-depth economic analysis and very clearly and concisely convey economic impacts. These impacts may include, but are not limited to, job creation, employee compensation, economic output by industry, and tax benefits to local, state, and federal taxing bodies. In addition to customized analyses, Delta performs economic impact analysis using IMPLAN, a world renowned and nationally recognized economic modeling software that provides detailed economic output data based on project attributes. Delta also uses our team’s longstanding background in economic impact analysis to undertake detailed analysis of an organization’s operations. For federal grants, Delta assists our clients by preparing benefit-cost analyses (also known as BCAs) to quantify the expected positive outcomes of their projects. Economic impact analysis is a crucial component in securing community, legislative, agency, and other stakeholder support for projects, initiatives, and operational funding.
Economic impact analysis is a cornerstone of conveying the positive economic impacts of a capital construction project or initiative. Using the Delta team’s collective education and experience in the fields of business, economics, planning, and municipal management, our team can perform in-depth economic analysis and very clearly and concisely convey economic impacts. These impacts may include, but are not limited to, job creation, employee compensation, economic output by industry, and tax benefits to local, state, and federal taxing bodies. In addition to customized analyses, Delta performs economic impact analysis using IMPLAN, a world renowned and nationally recognized economic modeling software that provides detailed economic output data based on project attributes. Delta also uses our team’s longstanding background in economic impact analysis to undertake detailed analysis of an organization’s operations. For federal grants, Delta assists our clients by preparing benefit-cost analyses (also known as BCAs) to quantify the expected positive outcomes of their projects. Economic impact analysis is a crucial component in securing community, legislative, agency, and other stakeholder support for projects, initiatives, and operational funding.
Comprehensive Planning, Land Use Planning, and Zoning
Delta assists county and municipal clients with the development of comprehensive plans, new zoning ordinances, and land use plans. Helping our clients understand and solve critical issues provides the foundation for structuring plan recommendations.
Delta assists county and municipal clients with the development of comprehensive plans, new zoning ordinances, and land use plans. Helping our clients understand and solve critical issues provides the foundation for structuring plan recommendations.