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.