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Now is the Time for Many Downtowns to Grow Older Adult Member Communities

Posted on November 15, 2025 by DANTH

By N. David Milder

For many years I have thought that older adults — those over 50 — represented a valuable under leveraged asset for many downtowns in cities with populations roughly in the 20,000 to 100,000 range. Given their increasing population size and financial power, I have written an article advocating the development of downtown older adult member communities arguing that they would facilitate much needed greater functional diversity and activation. You can read that article below.

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This entry was posted in BIDs, Business Recruitment, Central Social Districts, Central Social Functions, CSDs, Downtown Niches, Downtown Redevelopment, downtown retailing, Downtown Visitors, Economic Development, EDOs, Entertainment, Entertainment niche, Functional Diversity, Housing, Informal entertainment venues, Multifunctionality, Older Adults, Pedestrian traffic, Planning and Strategies, Seniors, Small Merchants, The Arts and tagged Central Social Districts, Downtown Visitation, Downtowns, Functional Diversity, Housing, OLder Adults. Bookmark the permalink.

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