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The following is a summary of the Infrastructure chapter of the updated Leadership in Times of Crisis Toolkit. This toolkit provides economic developers with tactics, resources, and examples to help recover from a disaster and build resilience. It was launched in August 2022 and funded by the Economic Development Administration. Summary While enduring and recovering from a disaster is a difficult process, some communities find an opportunity for community improvement. Post-disaster redevelopment in the United States has been used to revitalize downtowns, reduce vulnerability to future damage, replace failing and inadequate infrastructure, build affordable housing, and preserve historic buildings. Economic development organizations (EDOs) ...

Communities, developers, and real estate asset managers will continue to need to reimagine and reinvent shopping malls into mixed-use redevelopments. The availability of large amounts of land, building space, parking capacity, and typically superior access to roadway connections, provides the physical resources to transform malls from predominantly single-use spaces to a dramatically more varied mix of uses.