On January 20-21, 2016, the UW-Extension North Central Region hosted its In-service and Retreat at UWSP Treehaven (Tomahawk, WI) for Extension colleagues specializing in downtown development programming.

The education and training program included a half-day session on the use of the Downtown and Business District Market Analysis Toolkit, and it included activities and brief lectures on research trategies and research tools (ESRI Business Analyst & MAXQDA).

The session was led by UW-Extension colleagues Bill Ryan, Jay Dampier, Christian Schmieder and Patrick Nehring.

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