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1. A Unique Sense of Place

An Iowa Great Place possesses a sense of place that values historical roots while embracing a shared vision which welcomes, includes, and involves both natives and newcomers and promotes itself as a great place.

2. Engaging Experiences

An Iowa Great Place provides and supports authentic and varied opportunities for individual and community expression, interaction, and common experiences.

3. A Sustainable Community & Pleasing Environment

An Iowa Great Place proactively implements sustainable community development principles and works toward greater energy efficiency, which produces a clean, healthy, and accessible natural and built environment.

4. A Rich, Diverse Social Fabric

An Iowa Great Place promotes and encourages social collaboration – formal and informal – throughout the Place, with equal opportunity for all people to participate.

5. A Vital, Creative Economy

An Iowa Great Place contains a balanced, growing, transformative mix of rewarding jobs and sustaining capital.

6. A Strong Foundation

An Iowa Great Place is available, accessible, and responsive to everyone – the entire social fabric; A Great Place invests in itself physically and philosophically.

7. A Creative Culture

An Iowa Great Place displays a shared attitude of optimism that welcomes new ideas, based on a diverse and inclusive cultural mosaic.