A QUICK LOOK AT DANTH, Inc.

What We Do

  • DANTH Inc. provides economic revitalization consulting to downtown, commercial district and local government organizations.
  • DANTH is not just strategic planning or retail recruitment or redevelopment or non-profit administration. It is all of these.
  • DANTH consistently creates highly customized programs for its clients, based upon rigorous research, 30 years of experience in urban revitalization, and a creative, non-cookie-cutter approach.
  • Most importantly, DANTH takes a results-oriented view of revitalization issues.
  • DANTH has a long history of tackling difficult problems and devising reasonable, affordable and quickly implementable solutions.
  • DANTH provides actionable strategies – whether for attracting new retailers, marketing existing attractions, mapping potential redevelopment or planning for economic development overall.
  • DANTH has worked with big cities and small towns, urban centers and rural communities, from Pasadena, CA to Meredith, NH and many points between.
    Now, let DANTH work for you.

Some of Our Clients

    
  • Ohio Dept.  Economic & Community Development
  • The City of Charlotte [NC]
  • Regional Plan Association [NY]
  • Research Triangle Institute [NC]
  • Bayonne Town Center Management Corporation [NJ]
  • Teaneck EDC [NJ]
  • Mosholu Preservation Corporation [NY]
  • Greater Jamaica Development Corporation [NY]
  • City of White Plains [NY]
  • Main Street New Jersey
  • National Main Street Center [DC]
  
  • Village of Garden City [NY]
  • National Institute of Justice [DC]
  • Rutland Partnership [VT]
  • Englewood EDC [NJ]
  • Grand Central Partnership [NY]
  • MetroTech BID [NY]
  • Cranford DMC [NJ]
  • Forest City Development California [CA]
  • Carlisle Area Chamber of Commerce [PA]
  • Elizabeth Development Company [NJ]
  • Greater Meredith Partnership [NH]

N. David Milder

N. David Milder founded his private consulting firm in 1977 to confront downtown and commercial district revitalization issues in his own dynamic and no-nonsense way. In the past 30 years, he has helped to formulate the programs that have revitalized downtowns such as Charlotte, NC, Jamaica Center, NY, Rutland, VT, and Englewood, NJ.

Most recently, Milder has been involved in stimulating Transit-Oriented Development projects in Cranford, NJ, and Bayonne, NJ. In Bayonne, he also created Jump Start, a novel and effective façade improvement program, and Kick Start, a sister program aimed at stimulating residential development above existing commercial spaces. Since 1990, when many experts felt downtowns could no longer be successful retail locations, Milder has formulated numerous niche-based retail revitalization strategies that have stimulated growth in communities across the nation, including Rutland, VT, and Englewood, NJ.


In the 1980s, Milder created the Downtown Safety, Security and Economic Development Program for Regional Plan Association to address a key barrier to downtown revitalization. Prior to that, he helped create the Charlotte Uptown Development Corporation and the municipal service district it manages.  

Mr. Milder also has direct knowledge of what it is like to run a downtown organization, having spent several years managing the Cedar Lane SID in Teaneck, NJ, and the Bayonne Town Center SID.

Mr. Milder has published numerous articles in periodicals such as Urban Land, Main Street News and Downtown Idea Exchange. He has also contributed chapters to several books produced by the American Planning Association and the International Downtown Association. Milder is the author of two books on downtown revitalization: Niche Strategies for Downtown Revitalization (1997, Downtown Research & Development Center) and Downtown Business Recruitment (2005), which is available for download from www.danth.com.

Mr. Milder holds a Ph.D in Government from Cornell University and taught at Cornell and the Ohio State University. He was the vice president for marketing for ManData Corp. At the Ohio Department of Economic and Community Development he designed the Ohio Housing Needs Plan and created and managed the Ohio Cities Consortium, a 16-city public management technology transfer network. He then went on to direct the Urban Institute at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, where he created a downtown revitalization technical assistance program.