Union Depot Update Presentation

Join us on October 3, as Joe Borgstrom, from Place + Main, in conjunction with Downtown Joplin Alliance’s Endangered Properties Program provides an update on the development of the historic Joplin Union Depot.

Borgstrom will present a Feasibility Study on the Depot and a Gap Analysis of downtown.

Joe Borgstrom is an accomplished professional in the fields of Downtown Redevelopment, Community and Economic Development, Main Street and Placemaking. His 20 year career includes executive management, project financial structuring and evaluation, fund development, foreign direct investment recruitment, market research, program management, public speaking and consulting. He and his teams have used state and local incentives to leverage more than $2.2 billion in private investment into communities.

Borgstrom’s expertise is in the areas of retail market analysis, real estate redevelopment, real estate finance, business recruitment, strategic planning, incentives, and economic development strategy. He has served clients in communities as small as 700 residents to more than 400,000.

He has been a featured keynote speaker at statewide downtown conferences in Wisconsin, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama, and Delaware, multi-time presenter at the National Main Street Conference, and was a featured speaker at the White House Placemaking Summit.

Borgstrom is a Certified Economic Development Finance Professional through the National Development Council.

Tuesday, October 3
11:00am-Noon
Cornell Complex
212 W 7th St