The collective experience and expertise of DPN consultants bring a multi-disciplined perspective and planning approach to community, downtown and neighborhood business district initiatives. Our team uses its experience to involve stakeholders in efforts to develop plans and strategies that capture the spirit of the community’s vision and goals.

Vision Design and Strategic Planning

We understand the complexities associated with the development of effective plans and strategies. Plans that are primarily design-based in nature usually fail to adequately address the broader range of issues and factors that are at least equally important in determining a community's or district's level of prosperity. Our team analyzes and considers social and economic factors, investors’ attitudes, local issues, and regulations related to public improvements, private investment, marketing, and the strategy’s overall implementation.

We bring unique skills and expertise to the task of creating effective plans and strategies:

We become active partners in the community’s initiative, working closely with you to develop creative strategies and solutions that can be readily implemented at the local level. 

We like to create an air of excitement that injects enthusiasm into the process, making it fun for community leaders and stakeholders to participate. We work energetically to build upon the each community’s past work and to facilitate the creation of plans and strategies that are locally recognized and embraced as each community’s own – the product of your vision, creativity and ingenuity.

"Useful"

"DPN helped us create a useful planning document that still gets used; not just a report to sit on a shelf. Their ability to bring different personalities to the table to find the common goals was vital to the process."

Neil White

Executive Director

Lincoln Village Business Association

Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

The Zimmerman Design Group

Our experience and your community’s local expertise are a winning combination

The DPN team uses its collective experience to involve stakeholders in efforts to develop plans and strategies that capture the spirit of the community’s vision.

One of the hallmarks of DPN is our ability to work with diverse stakeholder groups, encourage a complete understanding of the issues, and challenge a community to explore a broad range of solutions.  We like to expand people’s imaginations about what is possible, and then define a path that achieves their vision.

DPN Vision Design and Strategic Planning services take full advantage of our experience in highly relevant areas of specialty and expertise that include: