OCTOBER 9-11, 2024 | ST. LOUIS

RECLAIMING VACANT PROPERTIES CONFERENCE

Your gateway to community revitalization.

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Passionate about transforming vacant spaces into vibrant places?

So are we.

Since 2007, the Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference has been the essential event for people advancing community revitalization. As the only national conference dedicated to strengthening neighborhoods to help address vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, RVP uplifts innovative solutions that disrupt the cycle of vacancy. The big, bold ideas that can only be found at RVP inspire change and community transformation from the ground up and top down.

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WHY DO YOU COME TO RVP?

“Getting together with my peers to learn about what they’re doing in their communities so I can try those ideas in my city.”

Attendee, RVP 2022

Register by August 1 to get the early bird discount! Limited seats available.

Support the Conference

As a nonprofit, Community Progress relies on the financial support of like-minded partners who share our vision of a future where all people live in strong, healthy, just communities where widespread vacant properties no longer exist.

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Mobile Workshops

Our immersive, impactful mobile workshops help make RVP special. These small-group tours take attendees beyond the conference center and into the community. Explore our host city’s neighborhoods to see revitalization projects firsthand and learn from the people who made them happen. Choose from thirteen workshops showcasing how local government, residents, nonprofits, and community developers are using art, housing, agriculture, and more to turn vacant spaces to vibrant places across St. Louis. Check out the agenda to learn more about this year's mobile tours.

Who Attends?

If you're fighting to revitalize your community and reuse vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties, don't miss RVP.

The conference brings together more than 1,000 leaders from grassroots community organizations, businesses, nonprofits, land banks, local governments, community development corporations, and beyond.

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WHY DO YOU COME TO RVP?

“The mobile workshops are amazing. It’s an opportunity to get out there and see that people are making great things happen.”

Attendee, RVP 2022

Thank You to Our Sponsors

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Exhibitors and Friends at our Community Showcase:

eProperty Innovations LLC

DAWGS Vacant Property Security

St. Louis Vacancy Collaborative

Tower Grove Community Development Corporation

Vacant Property Receivership Consortium

Terracon Consultants, Inc.

Technical Assistance to Brownfields, Kansas State University

Questions? Contact Thamarrah Jones, Director of Conferences & Events, at [email protected].

 

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About the Host

The Center for Community Progress helps people turn vacant spaces into vibrant places. Since 2010, Community Progress has provided urban, suburban, and rural communities battling systemic vacancy with the policies, tools, and resources needed to address the full cycle of property revitalization. We are the only national nonprofit dedicated to tackling vacant properties and drive change by uncovering and disrupting the unjust systems that perpetuate entrenched vacancy and property deterioration.