{"id":45034,"date":"2019-02-20T15:56:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/?p=45034"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:56:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:56:41","slug":"rma-celebrates-ten-years-of-reinventing-cities-and-over-1-billion-invested-in-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/rma-celebrates-ten-years-of-reinventing-cities-and-over-1-billion-invested-in-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"RMA Celebrates Ten Years of Reinventing Cities and Over $1 Billion Invested in Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212;\u00a0RMA (<a href=\"https:\/\/rma.us.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">rma.us.com<\/a>) has much to celebrate as the economic development firm marks its 10th\u00a0anniversary in March 2019. Founded by Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown in 2009, the partners set out to provide comprehensive consulting services to cities seeking an innovative approach for major redevelopment initiatives and targeted economic development.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Chris Brown and Kim Briesemeister\" src=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0220-Brown-and-Briesemeister-696x522.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Brown and Kim Briesemeister\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-45018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0220-Brown-and-Briesemeister-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0220-Brown-and-Briesemeister-696x522-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/images\/19-0220-Brown-and-Briesemeister-696x522-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><br \/>\nThrough visionary planning, implementation and marketing &amp; branding strategies, the award-winning firm has engineered remarkable transformations in cities across Florida including significant projects in Pompano Beach, West Palm Beach, Oakland Park and Dania Beach. To date, RMA is responsible for attracting over $1 billion of private investment to their city-clients.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are extremely proud of what we have accomplished for our clients,\u201d said Kim Briesemeister. \u201cDeveloping and implementing authentic city-specific plans, which transform blighted areas into thriving economic centers, has been an exciting and rewarding journey for our team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RMA\u2019s success can be traced to their fundamental multi-layered approach which provides redevelopment-based solutions for entrenched municipal problems, while also developing community consensus through personal interactions.<\/p>\n<p>During the past decade\u00a0RMA has attained numerous achievements for their clients including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>West Palm Beach\u00a0<\/strong>-RMA\u2019s award-winning redevelopment plan and the regulation re-writes resulted in over $55 million worth of real estate transactions between 2014 and 2016.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pompano Beach\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Award-winning campaign which\u00a0changed the city\u2019s brand, managed over $25 million in public capital investments and attracted major residential, commercial and new beach developments that have transformed the city\u2019s image.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oakland Park\u00a0<\/strong>&#8211; Innovative campaign creating a culinary district brand that turned the city into a destination for all things culinary.<\/li>\n<li><strong>North Miami Beach<\/strong>&#8211; Created the craft brewery overlay district and incentive program, and a project rezoning which led to a\u00a017% increase in property tax revenue for the (highest in Miami Dade County) and a 46% increase for the CRA.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lake Park<\/strong>\u2013 RMA\u2019s new Vision Plan and Banker Broker Developer event spurred millions of dollars of investment in the city.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cRMA has crafted numerous major redevelopment strategies for cities, but we have also partnered with many leaders on highly targeted initiatives which address specific needs,\u201d explained Chris Brown.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Cape Coral\/Bimini Basin<\/strong>&#8211; RMA identified\u00a0development sites and provided development scenarios to activate the basin area. This plan also addressed infrastructure, connection of the downtown to the basin area and improvements to aesthetics.<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Mount Dora Northeast CRA Grandview Commercial Market Study<\/strong>-RMA updated the plan to extend the life of the CRA until 2049 and devised and implemented the &#8220;Real Faces Real Places&#8221; banner campaign.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dania Beach<\/strong>-Award-winning campaign, developed and managed the now famous Dania Beach Arts &amp; Seafood Festival.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lauderhill<\/strong>-Created a Retail Recruitment Strategic Action Plan in addition to leading the City and Police Department\u2019s weekly\u00a0e-newsletter, achieving above industry average open rates.<\/li>\n<li><strong>North Miami<\/strong>(NoMi) \u2013 Created the CRA plan update and extension. Also created an award-winning Downtown marketing and branding campaign.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As RMA moves into its second decade, the firm is aggressively implementing new methods to enhance its\u00a0services, offering an unparalleled system to ensure a prosperous future for its client cities.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>About\u00a0RMA:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Founded in 2009 by Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown, RMA is comprised of a phenomenal team of redevelopment experts passionate about building better communities.\u00a0RMA\u00a0is the most experienced full-service economic redevelopment consulting and management firm, headquartered in the state of Florida, specializing in revitalizing core areas and corridors for cities, counties and special districts nationwide. The co-founders are also the authors of one of the definitive books about city redevelopment, \u201cReinventing Your City: 8 Steps to Turn Your City Around.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Learn more: <a href=\"https:\/\/rma.us.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/rma.us.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POMPANO BEACH, Fla., Feb. 20, 2019 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) &#8212; RMA has much to celebrate as the economic development firm marks its 10th anniversary in March 2019. Founded by Kim Briesemeister and Chris Brown in 2009, the partners set out to provide comprehensive consulting services to cities seeking an innovative approach for major redevelopment initiatives and targeted economic development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5203,"featured_media":45018,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,1,384,14,199,93],"tags":[10858],"class_list":["post-45034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economic-development-news","category-business-news","category-consulting-news","category-florida-news","category-new-location-news","category-pompano-beach-news","tag-economic-redevelopment-consulting","has-post-title","has-post-date","no-post-category","no-post-tag","no-post-comment","has-post-author"],"acf":[],"views":4129,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5203"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.send2press.com\/wire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}