Specifications include, but are not limited to: The Downtown Development Districts program has helped to increase investment in targeted areas throughout the state. In order to build on this success, and to continue to enhance the program, this Request for Proposal is seeking innovative new ideas and concepts to help Delaware’s municipalities to attract businesses, visitors and residents, with specific actionable recommendations that are tailored to the specific community. This Request for Proposal seeks to enter into a Professional Services Contract with an entity or individual with a demonstrated ability to promote participative sustainable development and economic opportunity through the organization, education and empowerment of people within communities, in urban and rural settings. The individual will work with towns that have a designated Downtown Development District and with those who are seeking to become a designated Downtown Development Districts in the future