Firm Overview
Blume Community Partners is a planning and community development firm with deep experience planning at regional and local levels. We have worked with communities in urban, suburban and rural environments, for large cities and central counties. We help these places think about the future they want to accomplish and then find the path toward their goals. Creating a bridge between visioning and project implementation is important to our work. We can help communities identify the partners, technical support, and funding to make plans actionable. We are skilled at civic engagement and work with communities from an asset-based lens to explore possibilities, design creative solutions, set priorities, and develop projects that can be implemented. We make use of primary and secondary data sources to inform community decision-making and open communities up to innovation and best practice. We encourage a comprehensive approach that considers cross-cutting transportation, infrastructure, land use and resilience considerations while working to develop downtown revitalization, balanced housing, natural resource and open space enhancements and improved health, economic and social outcomes.
Blume Community Partners provides expertise in planning, community engagement and visioning, land use, transportation, infrastructure, and zoning, survey research and socio-economic research and analysis, housing study and analysis, and sustainability and resilience planning.
Blume Community Partners has worked in southwest Ohio with over 30 communities, local governments and their partners. The Blume Community Partners team has worked together as part of the Community Building Institute at Xavier for over 20 years to connect communities to the partners and resources they need to solve problems and make their aspirations real. Liz Blume has been the director of planning in both Dayton and Cincinnati and the Director of the Community Building Institute.
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