Creator Towns

Growing small towns by leveraging the digital economy. Green, walkable, tech friendly towns, bringing money back to small town America.

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Update on the @CreatorTowns project:

The way I wanted to do it is, sadly, just not a good idea financially. Even in such a cheap-money environment.

Possible? Yes. Good strategy? Not really.

But there might be a better way.

Full post: https://t.co/VpCFZuGpoS

[Nat Eliason @nateliason]

Clubhouse convo about @CreatorTowns on Friday, come hang and bring questions!

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@spencemcc Not familiar with that process, have a good resource?

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

One of our most common questions is:

"Why not just start a new city from scratch?"

For a variety of reasons, we think that's a bad idea.

Here's why:

https://t.co/vk1YW3tN6W

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

Walmart and Amazon have killed main street activity in many small towns by driving retailers out of business.

To create a more lively main streets, we should encourage opening businesses that are:

- Affordable
- Communal
- Regularly enjoyable

New post!

https://t.co/SjBWMAc7Gj

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@TimmBoelcke That’s coming up!

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

Before asking "what does this town need to attract more knowledge workers?"

You should be asking "what does this town need?"

https://t.co/ZuUaPTK28c

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@bk_moore @nateliason Thanks Brandon!

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@YvonneLeow @emyreif Yeah that would be a good topic to go back and link in — this first post spawned so many other posts that it’s going to be an interesting web eventually

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

What is a Creator Town?

What're the ingredients to grow one?

Read more in our first post:

https://t.co/pWAcr2UZ1p

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@YvonneLeow @emyreif So yes, there is much more info coming 😄

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@YvonneLeow @emyreif One thing that’s exciting about working on this in small towns is that a few people actually can improve things for the whole town. It feels much more hopeful and there’s greater ownership

[Creator Towns @CreatorTowns]

@amiamigo97 No, hopefully we'll eventually have our towns listed on @NomadList though!