Services

Solutions for Every Community

Every community faces unique challenges — growth, revitalization, retention, or design. Reveille’s services are built to meet you where you are and give you the tools to move forward with clarity.

From long-range planning to hands-on design, we bring the expertise and processes that turn complex goals into practical, measurable results.

01 Planning

Practical, People-First Solutions

Effective planning starts with understanding a community’s strengths and challenges. At Reveille, we go beyond boilerplate solutions to create practical, user-friendly strategies that empower local leaders and residents alike.

By engaging the community early and often, we help ensure plans are understood, embraced, and actionable. Our inclusive approach builds trust, reduces resistance, and makes it easier to turn “big ideas” into meaningful, lasting results.

  • Comprehensive Planning Straightforward, community-driven plans that everyone can understand and act on.
  • Parks Planning Park and recreation plans built on how residents actually use their parks, and on what the community can realistically build and maintain.
  • Downtown Planning Revitalizing underused main streets into thriving social and economic centers.
  • Zoning Audits and overhauls of legacy zoning codes and resolutions into clear, predictable, user-friendly tools that protect community character and encourage smart growth.
  • School Travel Plans ODOT Safe Routes to School plans that map barriers to safe walking and biking and position communities for state infrastructure funding.
  • Environmental Planning Preparing required reviews and documents that protect natural resources while supporting development.
Downtown Ottawa, Ohio: a street of restored brick storefronts

02 Economic Development

Growth Begins at Home

Strong economies are built by retaining what you have while preparing for growth. Reveille works with communities to nurture local businesses, support expansion, and create opportunities through smart incentives and strategic investments.

With our “Economic Development Begins at Home” philosophy, we help towns and cities focus on retention, attraction, and funding. From daily on-call support to long-range strategy, our team provides practical solutions that strengthen economies and create jobs.

  • Incentives Guidance on grants, tax credits, abatements, and loan programs that drive job creation and retention.
  • Grant Writing Proven success in securing millions in federal, state, and local funding for community projects.
  • Strategies Tailored plans to keep communities competitive, resilient, and prepared for both growth and challenges.
  • Economic Development Organization (EDO) Advisory Services Support for joint economic development zones and districts and for community improvement corporation boards, including Reveille staff embedded on call inside a community’s planning or economic development department.
  • Mixed-Use Development Reviving underused sites into mixed-use neighborhoods through planning, grants, public engagement, and financing tools.
Some of the many programs we work on frequently
  • Community Reinvestment Area and Enterprise Zone Programs
  • Revolving Loan Fund (RLF)
  • Economic Development Administration (EDA) Grants
  • Joint Economic Development Districts
  • Cooperative Development Agreements
  • Special Business Improvement Districts
  • Downtown Revitalization Grant Programs
  • Job Creation and Job Retention Tax Credits
  • Community Development Block Grants
  • USDA Rural Development Grant and Loan Programs
  • Revitalization Districts (RDs)
  • Downtown Revitalization Districts (DRDs)
  • Facade Grant Programs
  • Downtown Outdoor Refreshment Areas (DORAs)
City of Perrysburg Community Reinvestment Areas map

03 Visioning

Turning Voices Into Action

Good visioning begins with listening. Reveille works with residents, officials, and stakeholders to uncover what communities truly value — from growth and revitalization to the services people rely on most.

By replacing assumptions with real input, our process takes the guesswork out of decision-making and builds the consensus needed to move plans forward with confidence.

  • Community Surveys Surveys that reach residents where they are and turn their answers into clear, usable findings.
  • Public Participation Charrettes, workshops, and public meetings that give residents a real voice in the plan. Some communities hire Reveille for public engagement alone, alongside another consultant.
Design charrette sketch of a public plaza with an “H” seating wall and a Howland monument

04 Design

Making Ideas Visual

When ideas are complex, design brings clarity. Reveille transforms goals and strategies into professional, compelling visuals that help audiences understand and act with confidence.

From branding and wayfinding to GIS mapping and communications, our team creates visuals that inform, inspire, and connect. In a competitive world, we deliver the polish and creativity that make communities stand out.

  • Identity and Branding Branding, wayfinding, and placemaking tools that refine and express a community’s unique character.
  • GIS Mapping Maps and geographic data that make development patterns, land use, and options easy to see.
  • Site Plans Illustrated site plans that show what a project could look like on the ground.
  • Visual Communications Layouts, reports, graphics, and presentations that connect ideas with audiences.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

A well-developed geographic information system (GIS) is worth a million words. GIS is simply a technology that allows for information and data to become visual.

For rural communities and townships heavily reliant upon agriculture, using a GIS to highlight development patterns and highlight prime farmland has done wonders. Not only can lot splits be visualized, but when overlaid with soils, the GIS can help public officials ascertain which areas are better to develop or preserve. Projects handled by Reveille can range anywhere from the “scratch” development of a GIS for any size political subdivision, to the revitalization and manipulation of your existing GIS and data.

Watercolor sketch of a Howland gateway sign with a lamppost and hanging baskets

Your Next Project Starts Here

Let’s talk about your goals and how Reveille can help bring them to life.