Downstream Strategies worked with the City of Ravenswood, West Virginia, and the community to update their city-wide comprehensive plan. Although a comprehensive plan was recently completed, the announcement of a titanium melt facility powered by a first-of-its-kind...
In anticipation of growth in Ravenswood, West Virginia, Downstream Strategies assessed the City’s 60-year-old zoning code to advance the growth goals of its recently updated comprehensive plan. The diagnosis report is an important first step to a streamlined and...
Downstream Strategies completed this Economic Restructuring Plan to complement design recommendations included in the Town of Richlands’ Business District Revitalization Plan. The Economic Restructuring Plan objectively evaluates the current economic climate in...
West Virginia’s electricity rates more than doubled between 2005 and 2022, outpacing the increases in all five surrounding states and in every other state in the country. In this report, Downstream Strategies assesses the factors contributing to this steep rise in...
This fourth report from the Reclaiming Appalachia Coalition outlines innovative projects that would transform abandoned coal mine lands in West Virginia, Ohio, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and beyond into sites of sustainable community and economic development....