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Presenter mics, bring me the mics.

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Hello? Oh, there we go.

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Technology works.

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Today's joint.

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City council meeting. Okay.

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There are two boards presented here today.

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I'm a three-development question.

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and City.

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I want to thank you all for being here either in person,

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most of everybody's

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roll call for the redevelopment.

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The Ebola,

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Lynna,

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so with us today,

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we have Heather Pope, Director of Redevelopment.

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Brown, Assistant Director of Redevelopment,

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Jason Major, Liaison from the BCSE Board.

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Mary Stroke, CRC Legal Council,

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Mayor for Don, Bonnie Boatwright, Project Manager

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for the Columbus Downtown 2030 Plan,

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that's a sake and team of SB freedman and story board. I'll turn it over to

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Kent City Council vice president, Grace Kessler, to proceed with the council roll call.

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That's good. Thank you. We will have our the win. Go ahead with our roll call for city council.

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First part tells Elaine Hilbert, Jerome Wood, Kent Anderson, Frank Miller, Jay Fois,

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Yes.

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Tom Dole.

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Grace Cessler.

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Here.

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And then we are also going to proceed with approving the minutes from our last city council meeting

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on July 1st.

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And so if I could have a motion for that.

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thank everyone's in person.

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So we can just say all those in papers.

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Aye.

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Please.

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minutes pass.

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Thank you.

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This is a joint public meeting of the redevelopment.

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Council to hear the results of the Columbus Downtown 2030 plan study findings, we're

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incredibly excited to hear the results of the plan, which have been shaped by community

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and stakeholder feedback. I'll turn it over to Bonnie Boatwright, the project manager to introduce

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Sasaki and their team of SB Friedman and Storyboard. Bonnie, thank you very much. When the guiding

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team and I developed our RFP to bring in a consulting group to help us reimagine and enhance

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our already outstanding downtown. We set out with several priorities in mind, but for we're

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especially important. The first one that the recommendations be economically driven to maximize

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the impact of our investments. The second that we engage a broad cross section of the community

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and meaningful ways. We reached about 5,000 people, which is terrific. The third that the plan

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include actionable steps that we can begin implementing immediately and for that the final recommendations

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reflect Columbus' unique identity and needs. With the work you're about to see from the team of

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I believe you'll agree, they truly understood what we were looking for and delivered on every front.

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And on top of that, they were a pleasure to work with throughout the process.

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So I'm going to invite Chris and Martin from Sasaki and run a deep and Michael from S.B.

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Friedman to join me at the front.

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Excellent. Thank you.

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Thank you, Joel.

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our esteemed city councilors and board members and thank you to the public that we've had the

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pleasure of being able to work with for the past eight months. My name is Martin Zobren,

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I'm the principal and charge from Sasaki. We've been honored to work with this entire community

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on this very exciting project. So just as a way of introduction, we'll introduce ourselves very quickly.

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I'll give just the briefest of overviews and then we'll jump right into the presentation itself.

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Chris, my name is Chris Frida. I'm a planner and the Sasaki project manager for this.

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Michael Riseoff, senior project manager with SB Freedman. I'm around a deep boss. I'm a partner at

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SB Freedman and we worked on the economic side as part of the Sasaki team. As I mentioned,

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for the last eight or so months, we've been engaged in working with all of you on the Columbus

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downtown 2030 strategic plan. We'll walk through all the very specific steps of what we found

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more importantly what we heard from all of you in so many different events and then really sort

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of set the stage going forward into what the next steps should and could be for this exciting project.

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We want to remind everyone that these are concepts, these are images that we're sharing with you,

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they are placed specific, but they are not sort of architectural specific ideas.

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There are broad notions of all those different components that together with all of you

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and with the implementation groups will sort of set the stage for the revitalization of Columbus

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going forward.

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Thanks, Martin.

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Good afternoon.

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Councillor's commissioners, members of the public, we're really excited to be here.

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Let's jump right in.

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So what we'll cover today is a basic overview of the project that we've been engaged in for

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the better part of a year now, a brief recap of what we've been involved in the conversations

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we've had and how it's led to the recommendations that will present to you this afternoon.

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We'll do a recap of some of the basic assumptions that set us off on the course that we are on

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and led to the recommendations that will be showcasing to you today.

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As Bonnie mentioned at the outset, all of this was based in the economic realities of the present

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as well as the aspirations, goals, and perspectives of community members right here in Columbus.

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So we'll situate the recommendations in those first assumptions.

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We'll head into the Strategic Plan recommendations for some of the broad strokes and specific projects that we're recommending as part of the plan.

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We'll just touch upon some of the implementation guidance and next steps.

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There's a lot to be discussed on implementation.

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We won't get into a lot of the detail today, but we are excited to start talking about what those next steps look like.

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and the mayor will pick up after we present some initial thoughts

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and talk a bit more about that.

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And then we'll open it up for questions.

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So let's start with the project to overview.

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For those who are just touching the project

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for the first time today, we wanted to provide a quick overview

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of the Genesis of this project, who we are,

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in the perspectives.

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We're bringing, of course, this is a project of the city of Columbus and the redevelopment commission, more specifically. We as the consultant team have been brought on to help facilitate this process and work with the community to generate these ideas.

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The project is being led by society represented by Martin and myself today, where the team lead for planning, urban design landscape public realm and the community engagement process.

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And we're supported by SB Friedman represented by Michael and Ronald Deep here today who have helped us really do a deep dive into the economic realities of Columbus, the region and some of the larger trends and help situate a lot of these recommendations within that analysis.

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And then of course, Storyboard represented by Jessica in the back who's been handing out these wonderful story pamphlets here has helped facilitate this robust community engagement process.

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So, at the outset of this project, the Redevelopment Commission charged us to answer these three questions.

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How do we build a downtown where people want to be?

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How do we maximize the use of spaces and places that exist within downtown today?

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And what gaps exist within downtown?

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How do we start to address those gaps?

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This is a strategic plan focused on 2030.

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So, it's a pretty short planning horizon.

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And that means you're looking for actionable recommendations that fit within the overall structure and framework of downtown today.

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And that's what we took as our charge.

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Just a familiarized everybody here with the area that we're talking about when we talk about downtown Columbus.

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It's about 340 acres represented by this thin dash red outline here, generally bounded by 11th street to the north, mill raised park in the flat rock river to the west.

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Approximately the former wastewater site along the river to the south, and then Lafayette Avenue and extending a bit further south west to the Cummins plant over there.

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We were really thrilled with the community engagement process and just the enthusiasm community members brought to this planning process.

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There's clearly a lot of interest in the future of downtown and a lot of folks who are willing to contribute to that future.

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And they started that process by showing up and responding to the surveys and other online activities that we put out there.

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We had over 500 people show up to our in-person events that number is much larger if you count

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pop-ups where we interacted with undoubtedly hundreds more. Over 3,600 people responded to the

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two surveys we put out and we read through each of those responses and got a good understanding

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of what people wanted to see and their excitement for the future of this community. In addition to that,

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Jessica and her team at Storyboard helped us lead over 15 pop-up events and community group discussions

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ensuring that we were reaching deep into the community to understand the varied perspectives

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that exist in the priorities that they have for the future of the city and the downtown.

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That first community event, we held in the Commons, was a great opportunity to familiarize

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folks with the themes, the kind of things that we were looking at as part of the planning process

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and start a conversation around aspirations and the experience these experiences people are having

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downtown today. So let's start with some of those observations. We asked people at the

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very outset, what are you seeing and experiencing about downtown today? Among the many great

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things that we heard about what was working or people like to do downtown, we heard a lot about

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aspirations. The observations were that it's good. It's not great. There's not a lot happening

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at night time. Not a lot for young people to do. People wanted generally to see more vitality.

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they want more events. They really love attending the things that do take shape in downtown today,

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but they see opportunity for more of that. And also there's an opportunity for downtown to serve

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as more of a cultural and economic hub within the city than it does today. And lots of interest

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in revitalizing those streets that are so lovely to walk down lots of great things to do,

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but people generally told us that there could be more.

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When we asked them about what specifically

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they had in mind as far as what downtown could be, what those aspirations were,

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These were the five themes that emerged most strongly.

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People wanted to see a more vibrant social entertainment hub,

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more things to do downtown, and hands retail and dining experiences.

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More places to spend their time and spend their dollars within the downtown realm.

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More essential services and livability as downtown becomes increasingly

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a neighborhood and a place for people to live.

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They want more of those services that can support daily life.

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Improved connectivity and mobility.

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how can we think about the ways the downtown can reach deeper into the neighborhoods and create

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more viable paths for getting to through and from downtown. And then thinking about this great

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identity Columbus has as a community in the world that downtown plays and how do we strengthen

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and build on that identity and create a real place that is a destination not only for folks who

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live in Columbus but people who may be coming from the region and has we know lots of folks who

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come from all over the country and the world.

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When we ask community members about their top desire

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uses for downtown. We heard a lot along those same lines of their aspirations. Number one,

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restaurants. People wanted places to go and eat entertainment venues. Things that they could do,

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not only with kids and family from the activities, but also young adult and adult activities

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like bowling, arcades, entertainment venues. People really loved the farmers market and wanted

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to see that expanded more access to it, potentially more centrally located. Of course, we heard a

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as a top aspiration, something that has been reflected in various plans in the past and is still a top desire from community members,

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things like water features and splash pads, outdoor activities that can be engaging for children and families.

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Activation of existing parks and open spaces, there's a good network of open spaces that existing Columbus today,

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but not a lot of those spaces are used on a regular basis. Events and social hubs for people get host events,

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bike and pedestrian linkages that connect more of these places together and provide access

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from neighborhoods and some of the natural features that encircled downtown, convenience store,

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pharmacy, youth center, annual regional events, things that capture a larger population,

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more art, and opportunities to experience that within the downtown, and then, finally,

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a conference and meeting space.

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At Community Event 2, we took all of what we'd heard from

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the community and our first phase of work and put it back to them and asked them to help us prioritize

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And understand where we should start looking for some of these opportunities to get sighted throughout the downtown.

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We engaged with a board game that asks people to place cards and chips across the city downtown to start the work of planning as a community and help us understand where those priorities fall.

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So you can see the kind of clusters of activity. Now we didn't encourage people to put them on some of these focus quarters, which is why you're seeing quite so much clustering there.

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but it gives us a good sense of what folks see as the potential identity of these different corridors

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and what different uses can really be successful throughout downtown.

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We asked people in our second survey, as well, to help us understand where these uses that we think

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are marketable and strong opportunities to increase foot traffic downtown, where should they take shape?

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And we took these lessons and what we'd heard from folks to understand where potential

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new development and sightings of new properties could emerge.

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So you see here in the yellow bars housing where we're seeing lots of concentrations in the east south and the southeast

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A little bit more of a distribution with a potential future office and lots of interest in the west and Washington some other places for a potential future hotel

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We also asked people beyond our kind of focus corridors of fourth street fifth street and Washington

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Where else would they like to see more activation more things to do more places to come to downtown to see and it was interesting to us

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just how much interest there was in citing some of these along the river and mill-race park really

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activating those natural and open space amenities.

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I'm going to hand it off now to Michael from

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SB Freedman to walk through some of our market analysis findings. Thank you, Chris.

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So Columbus today

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is downtown as a whole of experience. It's a place to live, it's a place to work, it's a

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place to gather and visit for many. You can attend shops, attend events, see the beautiful architecture

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of course. It is also a primary job center for Columbus and the region. Today, downtown Columbus

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has over a million and a half square feet of office space around 400,000 square feet of retail

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space. And these uses, along with the many institutional buildings, count for about 30% of the

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city's jobs. There is downtown living about 950 residents call downtown home, but it's relatively

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lower share of residents on about 2%.

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This next slide is emblematic of the challenges

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that are facing downtown Columbus

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post the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We use cell phone location data to estimate

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the number of visitors and workers who

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come to the downtown in-person on an average day.

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And some of these trends have echoed what we've heard

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anecdotally from our market interviews

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that we've conducted over the last eight months.

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In 2019 around 11,500 visitors visited downtown Columbus on an average day while around 5,700 workers did so.

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The pandemic changed a lot of that. In 2024 around 8,960 visitors came downtown on average day and around 3,330 workers.

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So declines about 22 and 42 percent respectively. These are resulting in a loss of activity,

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both in terms of vibrancy, the number of people on the streets, and also, but translate to

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reduced retail sales and taxes to the city.

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Downtown's share of the citywide population has

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increased however, and Columbus's population overall is projected to increase by 2030. This will be

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housing study from last year found that the city will need an additional 3500 units by 2030 of which

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approximately 940 could be multi-family units. And we believe that downtown has the potential

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capture a large share of these units. In many peer communities similar to Columbus,

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we observe much higher share of residents living downtown than we do here.

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Downtown is still continues to be a strong employment hub over the last decade.

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Employment grew by about 3,300 jobs.

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I grew by much of a smaller share outside of downtown Columbus.

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However, as I showed with the cell phone location slide, the nature of work has changed.

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so the office market is maybe less reliable in it

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was in a year's past or thinking about future uses at the downtown.

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So the slides summarizes our market analysis which we did for for primary land uses in the downtown.

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And the office sector, like I mentioned, we think it's relatively weak.

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You know, market potential at least in the near term.

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The new office development that has been built has been built to suit.

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So for specific tenants like Cummins.

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And while we think there might be potential for some of that in the near future, the speculative types of office development that's filled by, you know, many different companies.

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I think there's a little bit less potential for that.

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However, co-working is something that we have, you know, looked into and we think that there is some potential to add that to it downtown.

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Multifamily we think is the strongest real estate product type. Over 200 units have been built

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downtown since 2015 primarily in the Taylor and while we know that there is a robust

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development pipeline we think that the town town could accommodate a lot more development beyond

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you know what's currently planned for the downtown. Hotel is performing fairly well. The hotel

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into go and one of the other hotels by the highway are performing well overall. They've had

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strong average daily rates and average daily rate growth since the pandemic. However, the market

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has a hold is still seeing occupancy a little bit below those pre-pandemic levels. So while we do

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think there's some potential for additional hotel development, it's a bit weaker than multi-family.

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And retail, as we say long-term, this is a really long-term for retail developments. So new retail

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buildings. We do think that there could be potential for new businesses and new retail offerings to open

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the near term. However, in the near term, we think that those new businesses will go into

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existing spaces that are currently vacant and the long term is, as those spaces are filled,

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could, you know, be accommodated through development potentially. And if that will turn back over to

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Thanks, Michael. So we used a number of different inputs to make some initial recommendations

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for the planning work here and the market research the communities input the observations we conducted

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ourselves prior planning efforts all fed into that and what you're seeing here is a projection

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for what growth could look like within Columbus in the immediate near medium and long-term across

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those different use types as well as some others. What we're taking away from the market analysis

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and those other methods of input is that housing growth is the primary opportunity in the near-term

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to increase foot traffic, increase just bodies downtown, more people doing more things spending

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more money.

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Public relevant improvements and activation as well as new programming can support that in

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the immediate term and well into the future as well.

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So our recommendations for the immediate term are really geared towards those three things.

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As we look towards some of the future uses and things that don't necessarily show demand

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right now, we do see opportunity for strategic retail infill filling in some of those spaces

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that do exist today with new businesses, new vendors, if that foot traffic starts to increase,

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more of that becomes more viable. And then as we think towards growth of some of these

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different product types, as Michael just walked us through, there's not demand today necessarily,

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but as you start to see success with new housing growth, with new public realm improvements,

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an activation of some of these existing spaces and new programs that bring more people to

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downtown more frequently, you can start to see demand emerge for new retail. So construction of

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within new properties, whether it's ground floor or otherwise, new hospitality growth that

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is largely dependent and in the future potentially more office growth, we still don't have

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a fully clear picture of what the post pandemic world looks like for office, but trends do

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suggest that there could be increased demand in the future, particularly as some of these other

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uses take shape.

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So with that, we wanted before we jump into some of the physical recommendations and what the future of downtown could look like. We wanted to frame out the overall strategic plan objectives. These are the nine objectives that outline and cover all of our recommendations as part of this planning process. The first diversified downtown's offerings to ensure there are multiple engines of growth and opportunity. That's offices, that's businesses, that's residences, that's everything. Focus energy and activation strategically. This is a five-year planning horizon. We're looking express

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at 2030 and beyond, but most primarily at 2030, we really want to think about focusing that foot traffic to

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create a critical mass that can prove success within a smaller downtown court that can then

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extrapolate out to the rest of downtown. Make downtown a more vibrant residential neighborhood. We've

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seen some products emerge. They've been very successful. We know there's more demand. We know that

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that is a great way to get more people downtown. Fourth, improve connections between downtown Columbus

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and it's surrounding neighborhoods. We want to make it a comfortable experience for people to come

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downtown and enjoy all that has to offer. Enhance and expand access to mill race park. This

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is a beloved public landscape. We heard that in every conversation we had, there are more opportunities

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to use it better and importantly to connect it better to downtown. Making downtown a pedestrian

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first place, creating a positive environment that is exciting, that is enticing, that feeds

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curiosity, they get people to park their car once, leave it there, and enjoy a multitude of things

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throughout downtown spending more time and more money downtown. Making downtown an accessible

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and enjoyable destination for all. Columbus is not a homogeneous community. There are lots of

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different stakeholders and community members and groups that call this place home. We want downtown

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to be a kind of place that is accessible to them in terms of physical access in terms of cost

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of access and everything else. Continuing Columbus' legacy of excellence, we were so excited to work

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on this project and work with this community, it's such a special place. There's so much

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that makes Columbus so great, keep that going, maintain that momentum, maintain that pride of

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legacy and excellence in everything that pushes forward. Enhance and expand downtown Columbus's role

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as a regional destination. So first and foremost, this is a community for Columbus, a downtown

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for Columbus, but it's also our regional club, and how can we look towards the larger region

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to get to more of what we want to see downtown? So those are nine objectives that cover the

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entirety of the plan. Let's talk a bit more specifically about some of the downtown specific interventions.

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Thanks Chris.

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So we'll start sort of an understanding of the physical attributes of the downtown

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and how these objectives and recommendations really find a place on the streets and building

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and community gathering places that you all know so well.

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So for us this downtown framework plan is just that.

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It's a framework upon which you want to make strategic investments.

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A framework upon which you want to understand the opportunities for public investment,

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private investment, philanthropic investment, investment and

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partnership amongst all of you in the various roles that you play in the community.

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So again, this framework is really the scaffolding for

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investment into the future. Broadly what you're seeing on the screen is really sort of an

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understanding both of sites, as well as then what we're saying are corridors here. So urban

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infill, that emphasis on housing, of course, is very important. You can see some sites that are on

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the former wastewater treatment plant, some sites that are closer to the tailor and the southeast,

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and some other sort of orange-y-colored infill sites throughout the city, in which again,

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we're gonna really think about that housing.

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But as we saw in the community engagement activities

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that sort of dot map that we did,

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there really was a strong consensus

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that fourth, fifth, and Washington were the corridors

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most in need of investment,

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but also those which already had a substantial

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sort of visibility and legibility

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of understanding within the city itself.

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We heard repeatedly, both from the market sector

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in terms of what draws people to downtown, festivals and events, as well as sort of a great

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desire to really make the connection to Mill-Race Park as strong as it can be as a beloved

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asset which we know will only improve into the future. So that was also a big emphasis.

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Throughout we identified new destinations, we identified places that are difficult today

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that could be improved and as Chris mentioned in one of the planned objectives, really thinking about

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this sort of pedestrian environment. We bring our experience from across the world from across

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the United States on towns and cities big and small, knowing that the one common denominator is

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often the pedestrian experience, the simple ability to be able to walk from point A to point B

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without feeling you're going to be right over by cars necessarily or other intrusions and really

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making that as comfortable as possible,

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much like what you see today in many parts of the city,

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but in particular in fourth street.

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At the beginning of this exercise,

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we were given a set of priority sites,

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which are those largely in control by the public,

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some are CRC-owned, the ones that are hatched,

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a little bit hard to see on these slides,

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but nevertheless, it will be in all the documentation

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going forward.

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And we really took a hard look at all those sites from a number of factors.

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Again, ownership, investment opportunity, size of the parcel, and we're at sat within the overall geography of the downtown itself.

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So we grouped those into four categories, from the catalytic sites, immediate action, which will spur future development and investment.

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The second tier of opportunity sites, the ones that are just a bit farther afield, public realm sites, which are not the private buildings necessarily, but rather the open spaces and streets and pluses and parks that you currently have.

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And then lastly, the ones which we felt were most peripheral, the other potential growth sites,

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the ones just a little bit outside, maybe a little bit longer term, in terms of their impact,

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but nevertheless, really important to think through both from those things which can change immediately

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and which should change immediately, the catalytic sites to sort of this longer horizon.

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This next image is sort of our first take from a very sort of land use oriented understanding about some of those specific sites.

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within and around the downtown itself.

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Highlighted and orange are the central quarters of 4th and 5th and Washington.

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Again, which leads you from Library Plaza to Mill-Race Park quite simply,

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which leads you from Washington Street at the Oculus,

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again, to Mill-Race Park past the end ago.

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That sort of desire to move in that direction.

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And as well, we know that you've been invested in Washington Street for many, many years.

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and this project should continue and will be part of the recommendations that we make.

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For the field we see some of the sort of yellow infill sites towards the south and southeast here,

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where we see different opportunities for a whole range of residential infill projects.

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Neighborhood types of retail, smaller scale, they don't have to be exactly like the tailor or the

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coal, but some other version that is marked friendly and sort of gives us the sort of increase in

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number of overall residents in the downtown. Each of these projects will be explained in a

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little bit more detail in the slides going forward.

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A little bit of by the numbers we're looking

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broadly at what this might mean for a 2030 plan, which is to say up to or in addition of the 750

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possible new housing units for the downtown.

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Approximately 260 or so new hotel rooms

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That's sort of serving both an internal capture, the audience of folks here,

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but more typically folks coming from afar and visiting the city

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and bringing those dollars, which are very, very important.

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We also see the capacity for about 125,000 square feet of new in adaptive retail.

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That's slightly longer term in terms of its gross potential for the downtown.

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But nevertheless, an important sort of outcome of once you bring people downtown,

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those restaurants, food and beverage places, will do even better.

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So there is a real sort of timing issue about what steps you do first and what things

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follow along with that.

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So all of this will be provided to you in the final report which will be issuing,

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and you'll see all those sort of very specific metrics.

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When we think also about the public realm improvements,

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we really tried to be very, very strategic and very minimal, as a matter of fact,

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in terms of identifying those places

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which are already performing well today,

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such as the Plaza and front of the library,

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two new opportunities, such as creating more

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of a gateway into Mill Race Park at the end of 5th Street.

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at the end of 4th Street.

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So how do you invest wisely with things

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that are already underway,

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such as the gateway park endeavor

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that you've already begun to think about

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and the design aspects there.

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But then think about how do you make those places, which exists today, even better.

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So as we begin to zoom in into this one drawing that we created, and we'll show you a variety of details here.

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I'll walk you through a few things that you might notice here.

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Well, in orange is really your legacy, this amazing legacy of architecture and civic gathering places that really make Columbus so special to visitors far and wide as well as to all of you who live here and call this place.

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home from first price to the library, the Cummins downtown office building itself, all of these architectural

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gems. Of course, the architecture of the master's architecture program as well as city hall,

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the beloved courthouse. Those buildings you see sort of together within the downtown, but

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somewhat disparate. So again, you focus here on fourth fifth and Washington is really to provide

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network to pull those places into one experience, as well as then to make that access to

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Mulrace Park that much easier. So we're thinking about those strategic corridors and that

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connection to Mulrace Park. So broadly, these are the three big moves that we're suggesting for

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the downtown. Think about the investments today on Washington Street and continue those investments

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continue to invest in understanding the dynamic between retail versus professional offices,

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continue to encourage the use of second floors with access, and continue to think about the

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public realm on that to make Washington Street what it is today but even better which is really the

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spine of the downtown experience. But importantly there's two more sort of ways to think about

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both forced and fifth. So the logo or the slogan for forced street is finished for us. Go one or two more blocks towards

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mill race and really think about that incremental movement.

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Chris and I stood on the street today. We looked towards mill race park and we said this is very doable.

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We were right next to the Oculus looking down towards the park in the end of the go and said yes.

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If this experience just extends a few more feet, two more blocks, that can be a coherent experience with

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destination. As well, thinking about the avenue of the architects, of course, that which is

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combining the library and first church, I'm going to get it wrong. First, first, first,

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sorry, church there. All the way down to that vehicular connection to Moll Race,

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past the Cummins headquarters, as well as the Irwin Bank gem of mid-century modern architecture.

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As we zoom in, a little bit closer to each of those here, we're seeing really the terminus of

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fourth street as it meets Moll Race Park.

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These are suggestions not to be taken 100% literally, but again, there are artistic interpretations

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of a series of elements which come together.

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The idea of that great sort of pedestrian zone that you currently have today on fourth street

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sort of extending those two additional blocks,

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thinking about both the sear site,

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as well as the sears parking lot,

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which is just to the one side of four street there,

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what that future development might be,

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as well as then the expansion,

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which is already in the sort of pre-designed phases

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for the hotel indigo,

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and then thinking about what would be the long term

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for the post office site itself.

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This is really our four pack, as we call it,

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for blocks which can really see fundamental sort of change in the near term, in the timeline,

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horizon of this project, and transform substantially this part of downtown. There are some

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special sort of destinations highlighted in the darker sort of red color here,

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whether that's a market hall, which is really meant to extend the season of the farmers market,

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00:43:54,120 --> 00:43:58,140
even into the fall and even into the winter there,

435
00:43:58,240 --> 00:44:01,560
think about some indoor activation for that,

436
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:04,180
as well as then a connection to Mulrace Park.

437
00:44:04,220 --> 00:44:06,260
We know that we have both the rail line

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and of course Lindsey Street

439
00:44:08,420 --> 00:44:11,140
and thinking about how pedestrians might feel more comfortable

440
00:44:11,140 --> 00:44:13,860
moving towards the park itself.

441
00:44:16,040 --> 00:44:19,720
As we think about also some of those investments here,

442
00:44:20,200 --> 00:44:23,500
it's thinking about that pedestrianization of four street,

443
00:44:23,500 --> 00:44:30,440
thinking about the lighting, the trees, the activation of those spaces currently on the post office site.

444
00:44:30,940 --> 00:44:35,760
And then thinking about at that sort of terminus, as you move to that space, which is currently

445
00:44:35,760 --> 00:44:41,480
between the Indigo and the Sears parking lot today, if that could be a vibrant new destination

446
00:44:41,480 --> 00:44:48,900
shown here in Orange, as a Plaza space. We heard over and over again about no race and how

447
00:44:48,900 --> 00:44:54,840
maybe just a very small interim change could really get people to that part.

448
00:44:55,460 --> 00:44:59,980
Much like folks go elsewhere to look for that big sort of children's playgrounds.

449
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:10,420
This flashpad and neighboring communities, you might think about that. That's an actual, um, a doable project in the three to five year range that doesn't need to

450
00:45:10,420 --> 00:45:25,120
preclude the larger master plan from low-race park, but might get that level of activity. The parking is already there today, and we'll draw people and families, especially in the summer, like it is now to the park itself and begin to establish these relationships.

451
00:45:26,420 --> 00:45:32,700
Some of the suggested images and other places that we've seen across the United States and across

452
00:45:32,700 --> 00:45:38,440
the world really that give us a little bit of a mental picture for what some of these things

453
00:45:38,440 --> 00:45:44,480
might look like. In terms of the extended retail and outdoor activation of a really nicely

454
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:50,760
designed street about what a conference center might actually look like in terms of its transparency,

455
00:45:50,760 --> 00:45:57,340
the draw for outside visitors, the draw, and synergy that it has with the hotel itself.

456
00:45:58,300 --> 00:46:03,540
Thinking about that splash pad and playground in Mill Race Park, we've seen those projects

457
00:46:03,540 --> 00:46:09,480
be very successful across the United States. And one example, which is in Eugene, Oregon,

458
00:46:09,820 --> 00:46:14,640
in the upper left hand corner, that year-round market hall, a sustainable building, which is actually

459
00:46:14,640 --> 00:46:20,540
quite simple, and which allows for them to really, again, extend that sort of beloved farmer's market,

460
00:46:20,540 --> 00:46:24,360
that you currently have right outside here at City Hall.

461
00:46:25,300 --> 00:46:28,360
So those are just some examples of these components.

462
00:46:30,160 --> 00:46:31,780
As we think about Washington Street, again,

463
00:46:31,960 --> 00:46:34,920
extending the policies that have already been put in place.

464
00:46:35,020 --> 00:46:38,400
The small business focus community events on Washington Street,

465
00:46:38,420 --> 00:46:42,320
the facade improvement programs, upper floor activation,

466
00:46:42,320 --> 00:46:46,040
as I mentioned before, and prioritization of the Washington Quarter

467
00:46:46,040 --> 00:46:49,560
for any new retail, which could be coming to town.

468
00:46:49,560 --> 00:46:55,520
So again, great work that you've done so far, continue that work and continue to move forward.

469
00:46:56,220 --> 00:47:03,160
Some of the examples there, again, thinking about how the signage itself, something very simple and low cost,

470
00:47:03,260 --> 00:47:10,840
can drive businesses, can drive activity to really interesting ways of thinking about public space activation.

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00:47:11,160 --> 00:47:13,000
That space in front of the courthouse.

472
00:47:13,400 --> 00:47:18,020
Again, can we make it a little bit more friendly in terms of how people approach it.

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00:47:18,020 --> 00:47:23,080
might feel comfortable bringing picnic, hanging out if there are some benches, some movable chairs,

474
00:47:23,760 --> 00:47:29,680
and sort of in liveening some of that network of spaces that you have today. So all of those

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00:47:29,680 --> 00:47:35,600
components together sort of help to create and maintain a more vibrant Boschian and Streep.

476
00:47:36,720 --> 00:47:48,000
As we think about the avenue of the architects of course, fifth street here, extending from the

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00:47:48,000 --> 00:47:56,040
with the existing fantastic architecture that exists today at the Irwin Bank, as well as the potential

478
00:47:56,040 --> 00:48:02,720
for the post office, which is challenging today. Again, right across from your major employer here

479
00:48:02,720 --> 00:48:08,240
of the Cummins, a signature building again in the downtown. And then thinking about all those sort of

480
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:15,800
potential opportunities, both short and long-term here, where we can think about a reuse adaptive

481
00:48:15,800 --> 00:48:20,740
reuse of some of those existing buildings, as well as then these infill opportunities shown

482
00:48:20,740 --> 00:48:27,060
in the light yellow for some of the new residential and a variety of formats from multifamily

483
00:48:27,060 --> 00:48:30,360
all the way down to smaller scale townhouses.

484
00:48:30,860 --> 00:48:36,000
That diversity of investment is very important for the viability of any of these projects.

485
00:48:37,240 --> 00:48:43,400
As we think about some of the public realm investments on the avenue of the architects, we

486
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:45,940
can think about making it as friendly as possible

487
00:48:45,940 --> 00:48:47,920
for pedestrians moving there.

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00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:52,280
Think about the Plaza at Fifth and Jackson,

489
00:48:52,620 --> 00:48:53,840
how it might be more inviting,

490
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,600
how there may be a future tenant in those buildings,

491
00:48:56,660 --> 00:48:58,700
which would be very much of interest to the city.

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00:48:59,180 --> 00:49:01,140
And also thinking through a public art program,

493
00:49:01,460 --> 00:49:03,840
again, drawing on sort of the mid-century modern legacy

494
00:49:03,840 --> 00:49:06,120
that Columbus is so well known for,

495
00:49:06,180 --> 00:49:08,180
as well as how it's been extended

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00:49:08,180 --> 00:49:12,400
to the exhibit Columbus program year after year after year.

497
00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:18,000
think about sort of how murals simply, again, relatively low-cost, can in life in the environment

498
00:49:18,000 --> 00:49:25,860
and begin to pull all of this together. Some of those examples of what the moments might look like.

499
00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:32,200
Simply, uplighting some of the existing architecture extends the life of the downtown well into the

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00:49:32,200 --> 00:49:38,640
evening and to the nighttime. Thinking about this flexible branded park-plaza opportunities,

501
00:49:38,640 --> 00:49:43,320
such as along some of the open spaces on the corridor itself.

502
00:49:43,940 --> 00:49:47,060
That public art and then that great sort of gateway opportunity

503
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,680
as fifth extends into mill raise and begins to announce

504
00:49:51,680 --> 00:49:55,220
the presence of that deeper into the city.

505
00:49:56,220 --> 00:49:58,640
So we wanted to create just one sort of snapshot

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of a potential moment in the plan.

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This is looking down fourth street towards mill raised park.

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00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:16,480
You see the hotel in to go on the right-hand side and the block in the distance there with its extension further to the right here. You can't really see that. It's off the page.

509
00:50:17,360 --> 00:50:25,640
And then on the immediate right up near where it says sort of draft up in that corner, that's potential residential infill with building lobby potentially there.

510
00:50:25,640 --> 00:50:30,540
that street scape, which you have today on fourth street can be extended. It works very well.

511
00:50:30,560 --> 00:50:35,220
This is a one-way street with parking on either side and so traffic is coming towards you.

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00:50:35,580 --> 00:50:41,740
But on occasion, let's make it easier to have that street be accessible for pedestrians to close

513
00:50:41,740 --> 00:50:47,720
that off and have it be more of a regular sort of feature in the downtown. On the left hand side,

514
00:50:47,880 --> 00:50:53,550
we're seeing potentially the Sears Block existing today, repurposed into some retail as well as

515
00:50:54,290 --> 00:50:56,670
entertainment, indoor entertainment venues,

516
00:50:58,870 --> 00:51:01,750
we're also seeing really the potential for the

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00:51:01,750 --> 00:51:06,930
Sears parking lot site, which is substantial. It's a very large site. One of the things

518
00:51:06,930 --> 00:51:16,840
that the outside sort of conference operators are looking for, which is a co-location along with

519
00:51:16,840 --> 00:51:22,480
a hotel. So that's very important as well as the parking. So parking hotel and the conference

520
00:51:22,480 --> 00:51:27,720
center could be a draw. Again, there's sort of discussion and we're happy to answer questions about that.

521
00:51:27,860 --> 00:51:32,420
What are the economic benefits and returns on investment there? But it is something that has,

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00:51:32,520 --> 00:51:39,260
in the past, been identified as a potential strategic investment for the future and would draw

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00:51:39,260 --> 00:51:45,840
those outside visitors to the city itself. So in the middle of the drawing, you're seeing two things.

524
00:51:45,840 --> 00:51:50,440
There one is that potential for the market hall,

525
00:51:50,660 --> 00:51:52,400
a very simple building that again,

526
00:51:52,420 --> 00:51:54,140
extends the life to the farmers market

527
00:51:54,140 --> 00:51:56,220
and you get some of those outdoor tents there

528
00:51:56,220 --> 00:51:58,920
for the different seasons summer fall

529
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:00,380
and spring, which is so great,

530
00:52:00,520 --> 00:52:01,800
and extending that a little bit.

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And also the idea of a connection to Mill Race Park

532
00:52:05,460 --> 00:52:09,480
over both the rail and the roadway there,

533
00:52:09,580 --> 00:52:10,540
which are both quite busy.

534
00:52:10,620 --> 00:52:13,440
So we'll think creatively about how that might be accomplished.

535
00:52:13,660 --> 00:52:15,740
But overall, it really does have to do

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00:52:15,740 --> 00:52:20,680
extending this notion of the pedestrian environment, which is so attractive to downtowns,

537
00:52:20,780 --> 00:52:23,380
which you see in so many different places.

538
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:31,100
We know that phasing will play out over a long time

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00:52:31,100 --> 00:52:37,780
and that the specifics of the phasing can actually be subject to, you know, whims and opportunities

540
00:52:37,780 --> 00:52:42,400
that come your way. But we took a first pass of thinking about what those things are that could be

541
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,980
immediate short-term, medium-term, and longer-term.

542
00:52:46,300 --> 00:52:50,420
So immediately, we know that we want to sort of continue to, again,

543
00:52:51,020 --> 00:52:52,980
help you invest in Washington Street.

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00:52:53,180 --> 00:52:54,060
Use that investment.

545
00:52:54,360 --> 00:52:55,800
It's the heart and soul of the downtown.

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00:52:56,280 --> 00:52:57,060
Continue that.

547
00:52:57,560 --> 00:53:00,920
Secondarily, we think that that opportunity for a sculptural gateway

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00:53:00,920 --> 00:53:03,120
in Demo Race Park sort of fits nicely,

549
00:53:03,240 --> 00:53:05,300
with the master's and architectural program today.

550
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:06,780
They're interested in doing something.

551
00:53:06,880 --> 00:53:10,520
And so that's another opportunity to show sort of an immediate win,

552
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:13,660
right away as we're moving forward.

553
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:17,900
So as we begin this sort of look at the short-term phasing,

554
00:53:17,900 --> 00:53:19,560
there's a lot of things that could happen.

555
00:53:19,680 --> 00:53:24,600
Again, this is sort of a list of things that are good for me.

556
00:53:40,050 --> 00:53:43,850
On the short-term phasing, some of those investments that can be made.

557
00:53:43,950 --> 00:53:46,170
Again, we'll think about sort of what does it mean to extend?

558
00:53:46,310 --> 00:53:48,390
That streetscape along for a street.

559
00:53:49,550 --> 00:53:56,810
When is it most appropriate to begin to imagine that the market home may happen and the adaptive views of even the serious building?

560
00:53:57,190 --> 00:54:05,010
All those things again create that synergy, the sort of extent for that sort of logo for the project itself, or at least for this one piece of the project.

561
00:54:05,570 --> 00:54:17,690
And how might these public and private and philanthropic investments together create the momentum to move this forward into the...

562
00:54:21,080 --> 00:54:26,580
There are both short-term and medium-term uses to think about for the sears parking lot

563
00:54:26,580 --> 00:54:33,260
parcel itself. There's also opportunities to think about when and where sort of the redevelopment

564
00:54:33,260 --> 00:54:39,680
of the post office site itself happens, which is shown here. Conference center can be long-reterm,

565
00:54:40,080 --> 00:54:46,720
the connection to Mill-Race Park can also be in the longer term category. Again, these will be

566
00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:52,480
much subject to sort of investment and the decisions that the mayor will talk through a little bit

567
00:54:52,480 --> 00:54:53,860
at the end of this presentation.

568
00:54:57,790 --> 00:55:02,870
Great, so that was a quick overview of the many ideas for

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00:55:02,870 --> 00:55:08,450
downtown for some of these specific sites. We're really excited about these. We hope you are too.

570
00:55:08,690 --> 00:55:13,670
The next step is in implementation and what we would like to do is show you a bit about how this will

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00:55:13,670 --> 00:55:17,970
get delivered to the city, to the redevelopment commission. What kind of guidance will get provided?

572
00:55:17,970 --> 00:55:34,810
So you are not intended to read this, but this is just a screenshot of the way that we are starting to fill out an action plan, a table of recommendations and all the kind of resources that we would recommend you all pursue to make some of these projects happen.

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Each of them, these recommendations is getting organized under one of these three headings real estate economic development, public realm and infrastructure programming and activation, which is also how the city is starting to organize itself around recommendations and implement.

574
00:55:47,950 --> 00:55:53,950
which is just terrific. Each of these recommendations will provide the details that you see here on screen.

575
00:55:54,590 --> 00:55:59,750
What kind of recommendation is it? Is it a project? Is it a policy, a program, or a potential partnership?

576
00:56:00,630 --> 00:56:04,030
We'll articulate what that recommendation is, what we're trying to accomplish by it.

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00:56:04,110 --> 00:56:09,310
We'll provide a bit more description to help round that out and help provide the guidance needed to move forward.

578
00:56:09,830 --> 00:56:14,150
We'll also identify the who we think are the right partners in concert with the city.

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00:56:14,150 --> 00:56:19,050
not just us coming up with these, but working with you all to figure out who should lead each of these

580
00:56:19,050 --> 00:56:23,110
recommendations, who are some of the partners who can help support the implementation of these

581
00:56:23,110 --> 00:56:29,490
recommendations, where within that overall trajectory of planning and the realization of these

582
00:56:29,490 --> 00:56:34,250
recommendations does this fit? Is it an immediate term opportunity? Something akin to a quick win?

583
00:56:34,570 --> 00:56:39,250
Is it a longer term opportunity that requires a bit more investment first or something in between?

584
00:56:39,490 --> 00:56:44,010
We'll also start to identify potential funding sources. So there's a lot more to discuss on that

585
00:56:44,010 --> 00:56:49,030
We won't get into a tremendous amount of detail today, but we'll talk a bit about it in an action steps.

586
00:56:49,490 --> 00:56:53,090
So, some of these projects are quite discernible and easy to tackle.

587
00:56:53,410 --> 00:57:00,130
Some of them are much more complex and have a whole sequence of steps that we would recommend to take and invest time and money and attention to.

588
00:57:00,270 --> 00:57:02,970
And so we'll provide that guidance as well.

589
00:57:04,050 --> 00:57:12,910
As we think about what implementation looks like, we are taking a close look at all the different kinds of development models that would typically underlie projects of this type.

590
00:57:12,910 --> 00:57:19,530
We are going to provide guidance on what we think the role of the Columbus Redevelopment Commission should be, as the owners, a lot of these properties.

591
00:57:20,510 --> 00:57:28,510
We also want to provide guidance on the disposition of publicly-owned sites, moving them from the public hands into actionable private hands.

592
00:57:29,250 --> 00:57:38,950
Providing recommendations for how some of the privately-owned sites that we are making recommendations for could move forward. Obviously, the public section doesn't play a huge role in that,

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00:57:38,950 --> 00:57:42,550
that you can start to guide and help people realize these projects.

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00:57:43,270 --> 00:57:45,130
And then starting to prioritize,

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00:57:45,470 --> 00:57:49,190
which public financial assistance for real estate projects

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00:57:49,190 --> 00:57:50,430
are the top priorities.

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00:57:51,130 --> 00:57:53,110
When it comes to some of these more specialized uses,

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00:57:53,170 --> 00:57:55,650
things that are not necessarily

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00:57:56,410 --> 00:58:02,110
super typical or that don't have robust models ready for us.

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00:58:02,170 --> 00:58:04,310
We'll take a look at what are some of the strategies

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00:58:04,310 --> 00:58:07,690
that are unique to Columbus and to these particular investments.

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00:58:07,690 --> 00:58:13,690
things like the market hall if there is to be a pedestrian connection over the rail and the road to

603
00:58:13,690 --> 00:58:16,950
mill race park. What are some of the mechanisms you could use to implement those?

604
00:58:19,770 --> 00:58:20,990
So we took a look at

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00:58:20,990 --> 00:58:24,970
the different recommendations. There's a lot of them. We're organizing them by the project's policy

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00:58:24,970 --> 00:58:29,790
partnerships and programs, the four pieces we call them, and then we'll group them into these different

607
00:58:29,790 --> 00:58:34,910
implementation teams so that your city implementation team is ready to take them from day one

608
00:58:34,910 --> 00:58:41,250
start making progress within these three groups and you can see those implementation action

609
00:58:41,250 --> 00:58:46,810
teams there. So I think this is where we will leave it for our presentation and hand it

610
00:58:46,810 --> 00:58:52,720
to the mayor further to discuss the next steps on how to take this point forward.

611
00:58:53,690 --> 00:58:58,890
You so much to the Team of Susaki SB Friedman and storyboard for the immense efforts you have

612
00:58:58,890 --> 00:59:04,010
undergone to provide a thoughtful analysis of the current conditions facing downtown today

613
00:59:04,010 --> 00:59:07,990
to make recommendations for a refreshed and rejuvenated downtown.

614
00:59:09,950 --> 00:59:17,770
So Mayor Ferdon is ready at the podium to introduce the implementation plan to carry out the study recommendations.

615
00:59:18,290 --> 00:59:18,770
Mayor Ferdon.

616
00:59:24,020 --> 00:59:26,200
I think that deserves a round of applause.

617
00:59:35,010 --> 00:59:39,630
They consolidated in about 50 minutes what has taken eight or nine months.

618
00:59:39,750 --> 00:59:43,690
And I've got to tell you that last year when I threw out the whole,

619
00:59:43,690 --> 00:59:53,430
I want them done by June. Everybody looked at me in horror, but they managed and so, so thrilled to be able to work with Cesaki and S.B.

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00:59:53,530 --> 00:59:59,990
Creedmen in Storybook. Next, for slides. So, I'm going to irritate a bunch of people with the next slide.

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01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:00,920
But

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01:00:03,830 --> 01:00:19,370
if you've ever worked with me, you know that this is one of my favorite quotes, right? Plans are useless. But getting there is indispensable, probably the most famous quote, one of the most famous quotes of, at that time, General Dwight Eisenhower.

623
01:00:20,330 --> 01:00:23,730
And we're as deaf, Bergman. I'm not talking about you,

624
01:00:32,890 --> 01:00:32,890
right?

625
01:00:32,890 --> 01:00:38,890
It sets a framework on what we need to do to achieve a goal and so that's what this is.

626
01:00:39,010 --> 01:00:44,210
So I want you to hear hear me when I say that. This is a plan. It's a great plan, but it's not

627
01:00:44,210 --> 01:00:52,150
set in stone, right? It will evolve with us because that's what we do so well. As circumstances change

628
01:00:52,150 --> 01:00:57,170
and as they evolve, you know, challenges are going to pop up and then opportunities are going

629
01:00:57,170 --> 01:01:04,210
pop up. And so we will make sure that we deal with both as they happen. And as Cesaki talked about,

630
01:01:04,470 --> 01:01:10,550
there's been abundant input, 5,000 touch points. That's pretty amazing for a community our size.

631
01:01:10,810 --> 01:01:16,770
So that we know the community is really invested in the success of this success of this plan.

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01:01:17,430 --> 01:01:22,090
So we are going to take these recommendations and we're going to shape them over the next few

633
01:01:22,090 --> 01:01:27,730
years and then we're going to implement the critical themes and concepts and those will come forward.

634
01:01:28,390 --> 01:01:36,790
So I want to let you know that I think as of right now this plan, this presentation is on on the website.

635
01:01:37,430 --> 01:01:47,670
So I know a lot of you were taking notes and it's really hard to see because you know the font was really small, but I know that you will have the ability to look at that this on your own.

636
01:01:47,670 --> 01:01:58,350
Next slide. So what's the purpose? The purpose is to support overseen and ensure the successful implementation of these recommendations. In other words, the purpose is to just get stuff done.

637
01:01:59,750 --> 01:02:02,930
We do compete with ourselves, but we also do.

638
01:02:04,130 --> 01:02:09,650
Our residents and our visitors look at other communities and try to always compare them with us.

639
01:02:09,650 --> 01:02:13,570
And I think we've seen that most kind of now post-pandemic.

640
01:02:14,270 --> 01:02:21,730
And so our purpose is really that this is a call to action from the community, saying that we want to adapt now that things have changed.

641
01:02:21,790 --> 01:02:25,550
And then we want to reimagine what can we look like.

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01:02:25,970 --> 01:02:31,030
And what we found is that cities who are focused have post-pandemic,

643
01:02:31,030 --> 01:02:43,090
who focused on tourism, entertainment, in-person workers have recovered and are doing well as long as they have downtown residents.

644
01:02:43,950 --> 01:02:50,030
So we know that, we've seen it in other communities and I think you'll find that thread throughout this plan.

645
01:02:51,270 --> 01:02:56,990
Failure is often driven by the inability to make a decision, so we're not going to be there.

646
01:02:56,990 --> 01:03:03,770
we're going to identify what makes the best uses of our resources and then we're going to just dive in.

647
01:03:04,270 --> 01:03:07,410
So how did we divide up the work? Next slide.

648
01:03:09,230 --> 01:03:14,190
As Chris and Martin were just talking about, they really focused on three areas, which is a logical

649
01:03:14,190 --> 01:03:20,510
separation of the areas of impact. First of all is real estate. A lot of properties downtown,

650
01:03:20,510 --> 01:03:36,010
And some we own we the city or redevelopment others we don't and so the goal here is to prioritize the recommendations and then work with the property owners to support and work through any obstacles and facilitate the next best steps.

651
01:03:36,550 --> 01:03:40,610
This is probably the most difficult sub team that we're setting up right.

652
01:03:41,570 --> 01:03:45,090
Because it's costly and these are the really big ideas.

653
01:03:45,090 --> 01:03:52,350
The second sub team, or sub group, has been set up around public realm as, again, Sasaki talked about.

654
01:03:52,390 --> 01:03:58,930
These are the upgrades and the enhancements to our public streets, our plasas, our trails, our plasas and our parks.

655
01:03:59,390 --> 01:04:04,310
I get really excited about this, because this is how we connect people around the downtown.

656
01:04:05,010 --> 01:04:11,970
And that's what we hear over and over and over, people want to be able to move freely, they want to bring visitors to town,

657
01:04:11,970 --> 01:04:17,930
want to have kids running around and so connectors are really important. And then the last piece is

658
01:04:17,930 --> 01:04:22,550
the programming and activation. And again, this is where we want to increase our foot traffic

659
01:04:22,550 --> 01:04:27,070
downtown through activation and events. Next page.

660
01:04:29,940 --> 01:04:33,000
So we've built some broad-based teams to get a

661
01:04:33,000 --> 01:04:40,000
cross section of stakeholders, users, business owners, and property owners. And first of all, I have to

662
01:04:40,000 --> 01:04:46,520
the Bonnie boat right has been amazing and she has facilitated this process up to now and she's

663
01:04:46,520 --> 01:04:53,120
agreed to facilitate through the implementation piece. So she will be she will be on every

664
01:04:54,180 --> 01:05:01,960
action team. Thank you Bonnie. So first we started with a steering committee and this the goal of this

665
01:05:01,960 --> 01:05:08,120
is obviously to just synthesize the recommendations and support the overarching goals and they've

666
01:05:08,120 --> 01:05:12,960
to keep everybody moving in the right direction. And then they want to make sure that the

667
01:05:12,960 --> 01:05:19,220
information is collected to make decisions and make sure that it's shared out both to the

668
01:05:19,220 --> 01:05:27,020
public as well as the media. So we're really fortunate to have two conveners who they didn't know

669
01:05:27,020 --> 01:05:31,840
each other until they were brought together but are going to lead this forward. One is John Burnett,

670
01:05:31,840 --> 01:05:39,240
you all know John right retired CEC president part of envisioned Columbus he was part of Columbus 2020

671
01:05:41,060 --> 01:05:47,720
he may have come over on the Mayflower I don't remember is a great historian and so I'm so

672
01:05:47,720 --> 01:05:53,240
pleased that's he agreed to be one of the communeers the other is Jake Syp we sit in over here he's

673
01:05:53,240 --> 01:05:58,400
our new community development director we stole him from the state he was the former director of the

674
01:06:03,920 --> 01:06:09,780
He is an expert on housing and all things housing, so he with Paul Smith is a system director

675
01:06:09,780 --> 01:06:15,320
are going to be co-convening with John, and so we're really really excited that they'll move forward.

676
01:06:15,500 --> 01:06:20,620
We also have Tom Dell is the City Council President, sorry.

677
01:06:21,260 --> 01:06:22,380
That was a slip of the tongue.

678
01:06:22,380 --> 01:06:27,880
Tom Del City Council representative as well as a long-time downtown business owner.

679
01:06:27,960 --> 01:06:34,360
We have Shannon McDonald who's representing redevelopment. I declare as the director or president.

680
01:06:34,540 --> 01:06:37,980
I can't remember titles of the office of downtown development.

681
01:06:39,220 --> 01:06:43,260
Sharon Andrews who's sitting here or somewhere in Ravey Hand, there she is.

682
01:06:43,440 --> 01:06:48,780
She is representing the art community and I think she just came from Charlie and the chocolate factory this weekend, right?

683
01:06:48,780 --> 01:06:58,660
Yep, Dania Martinez, who is the director of the IU Miller Architect Program, Chris Raskop, who represents

684
01:06:58,660 --> 01:07:04,360
Cummins, who I know is sitting here and then Kelly Schwartz, who owns the fourth street bar

685
01:07:04,360 --> 01:07:09,360
and is a downtown property owner and business owner. So we have a wonderful steering committee who's

686
01:07:09,360 --> 01:07:17,700
committed to be that team that will move this process forward. Secondly, we have an economic

687
01:07:17,700 --> 01:07:32,300
development real estate team or remember I said this one's the hardest right and so that will be led by John Burnett and Al Ross check who I know is here raise your hand if I call your name raise just you just kind of like you know to stand right and they will be joined by

688
01:07:33,180 --> 01:07:35,700
Scott Shannon McDonald from redevelopment.

689
01:07:36,700 --> 01:07:40,940
I can't read, 80, 80 blakeslee, did we spell your name right?

690
01:07:41,360 --> 01:07:44,100
Right, the new president of Heritage Fund.

691
01:07:44,500 --> 01:07:49,100
I did clue Cindy Fry with the Chamber of Commerce, President of Chamber of Commerce,

692
01:07:49,400 --> 01:07:54,280
Kylie Broad, who's a downtown property owner, and then Richard McCoy from landmark Columbus.

693
01:07:54,580 --> 01:07:59,280
So you see we have a really diverse group on the real estate team,

694
01:07:59,280 --> 01:08:04,200
and we're trying to balance public, private, philanthropic, and then property owners.

695
01:08:04,200 --> 01:08:14,480
The next team, which is programming an activation, will be led by Misty Wise and Steiner and Chris Raskop, raise your hand again.

696
01:08:14,700 --> 01:08:15,100
They're here.

697
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:15,860
Thank you.

698
01:08:16,120 --> 01:08:17,200
Thank you.

699
01:08:18,020 --> 01:08:19,200
Back to them.

700
01:08:20,180 --> 01:08:21,540
Flexible here, right?

701
01:08:21,540 --> 01:08:22,920
Are adaptable.

702
01:08:23,780 --> 01:08:30,300
So then on the public realm, that's where I'm at, right?

703
01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:35,160
Okay, so we have Jenna Passano, who was with Department of Public Works.

704
01:08:35,580 --> 01:08:37,940
We have Brooke Hawkins with the Arts Council.

705
01:08:38,500 --> 01:08:43,760
We have the Jim Blackstock with Joyner Architect and a recent graduate.

706
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:45,460
You know you're here at Jim Raise your hand.

707
01:08:45,720 --> 01:08:53,080
Right, recent graduate from the IU School of IU Miller School of Architecture.

708
01:08:53,240 --> 01:08:55,600
Did I get that right? Kind of sort of, I'm sorry.

709
01:08:55,600 --> 01:09:03,120
Amber Fischvot, I know she's here, Laura Miller, who's out with Elsey, and then Angela

710
01:09:03,120 --> 01:09:03,580
Thor.

711
01:09:03,600 --> 01:09:04,860
I know Angela's here.

712
01:09:05,280 --> 01:09:12,420
So again, we had a great group of combination of stakeholders, experts, and designers.

713
01:09:13,280 --> 01:09:17,880
And then lastly, we have the programming, and that's being led by Shanda Sassie with the

714
01:09:17,880 --> 01:09:18,220
city.

715
01:09:18,320 --> 01:09:19,800
She manages city parks.

716
01:09:19,800 --> 01:09:20,760
She's sitting over here.

717
01:09:20,780 --> 01:09:25,180
We've got Sharon Andrews, again, representing the arts community, and they'll be joined

718
01:09:25,180 --> 01:09:27,920
by Ike DeClu, Brooke Hawkins,

719
01:09:28,160 --> 01:09:30,640
with the Arts Council, Misty Wise, and Steinner again.

720
01:09:30,920 --> 01:09:33,700
Jason Hayden from the Library, I don't know if he's here,

721
01:09:34,180 --> 01:09:36,000
Freddie King, I saw Freddie Sneak in,

722
01:09:36,120 --> 01:09:38,620
there he is back there, representing CYD,

723
01:09:38,780 --> 01:09:39,920
he's so excited to have you here.

724
01:09:40,000 --> 01:09:41,640
He's kind of representing the youth,

725
01:09:42,520 --> 01:09:46,120
and then we have DeepD from the BCSC Foundation,

726
01:09:46,320 --> 01:09:47,240
I don't know if she's here.

727
01:09:47,700 --> 01:09:51,700
Again, the goal was to find experts and stakeholders

728
01:09:51,700 --> 01:09:55,520
who are already active in this area.

729
01:09:57,160 --> 01:10:02,480
One last note that we will have represents from representatives from the Planning Department, Parks,

730
01:10:02,680 --> 01:10:06,540
TBW, and Engineering all actively engaged to provide support.

731
01:10:07,020 --> 01:10:11,860
And the reason why I read these names and I wanted people to raise their hands is because you need to understand

732
01:10:11,860 --> 01:10:17,220
this is a really important group of people and they represent a really wide swath of the community.

733
01:10:17,220 --> 01:10:25,800
so we're so I'm so pleased that they've stepped up to the plate to do this next page and what

734
01:10:25,800 --> 01:10:32,140
will the work process look like? They're going to meet monthly and we will be collaborating

735
01:10:32,840 --> 01:10:39,400
with Columbus City Council and Columbus Redevelopment Commission because we have representatives on the

736
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:45,300
teams and there are goals again they will be meeting and prioritizing these very very detailed

737
01:10:45,300 --> 01:10:51,600
recommendations that Cesaki has listed. They'll be analyzing them looking at funders, looking

738
01:10:51,600 --> 01:10:57,640
at timelines and then bringing that back to the larger group. Their goal is to talk with stakeholders,

739
01:10:58,180 --> 01:11:05,100
interested parties, and funders, and the public. So if you have ideas, your goal is to find one of

740
01:11:05,100 --> 01:11:11,460
these people and bend their ear. They're actually beginning this next month in August. They'll have

741
01:11:11,460 --> 01:11:17,420
to the community in October, and the goal is to have an end-of-year report back to December.

742
01:11:18,020 --> 01:11:21,860
And then with that report, then we can start moving forward with a lot of other pieces.

743
01:11:22,340 --> 01:11:25,800
I haven't told them, I kind of told them that maybe they would be done in December,

744
01:11:26,200 --> 01:11:28,860
but my real plan is it'll probably be next August.

745
01:11:30,720 --> 01:11:32,720
I'm also showing on this slide,

746
01:11:34,840 --> 01:11:37,180
the Suzuki slide that showed all those recommendations.

747
01:11:37,180 --> 01:11:39,780
because I just want the public to understand,

748
01:11:40,220 --> 01:11:42,220
they've got a lot of data to go through.

749
01:11:42,480 --> 01:11:46,400
Sazaki and SB freedmen are providing immense detail,

750
01:11:46,880 --> 01:11:49,520
which will help us make good decision.

751
01:11:49,920 --> 01:11:53,340
So it's going to take a while to be able to plow through all of it.

752
01:11:54,100 --> 01:11:56,660
As I said, this plan is we'll be on the website,

753
01:11:56,940 --> 01:11:58,540
we'll have updates in October,

754
01:11:59,160 --> 01:12:02,580
and anytime we have new information that'll automatically be added.

755
01:12:04,720 --> 01:12:07,180
I guess the last thing I want to say is that this work

756
01:12:07,180 --> 01:12:14,640
is really exciting. It's going to be messy. It's going to be expensive. It's going to evolve

757
01:12:15,180 --> 01:12:20,560
but I hope because you're sitting there that you believe it will have impact like we do.

758
01:12:21,160 --> 01:12:25,200
Somebody asked me earlier today, they were interviewing me for radio program and said,

759
01:12:25,440 --> 01:12:31,700
so what will success look like? And my response is I've already seen success. You all are sitting here.

760
01:12:31,700 --> 01:12:39,620
We've had touch points of 5,000 people who've shown that they desire to have reinvestment

761
01:12:40,420 --> 01:12:46,020
in this downtown, and they want to have aspirational transformation of this downtown. And for

762
01:12:46,020 --> 01:12:52,660
me, that's progress already. And so I think success is not only that, but see how we move forward.

763
01:12:53,560 --> 01:12:58,340
So with that, I'm going to, I think I have one more slide. I want to just do a few thank yous,

764
01:12:58,340 --> 01:13:00,200
which do they have?

765
01:13:00,820 --> 01:13:02,760
Sasaki, SB, Friedman, and Storyboard.

766
01:13:02,880 --> 01:13:03,840
You guys have been amazing.

767
01:13:05,040 --> 01:13:06,960
We just can't reiterate how wonderful they've been

768
01:13:06,960 --> 01:13:08,700
to work with.

769
01:13:09,240 --> 01:13:12,400
They were one of 18 firms that were chosen unanimously,

770
01:13:12,840 --> 01:13:15,300
representing over 65 firms.

771
01:13:15,700 --> 01:13:17,800
So you need to know that we got the best of the best.

772
01:13:19,180 --> 01:13:23,180
I want to thank the Clems down to on 2030 guiding team.

773
01:13:24,260 --> 01:13:27,560
You volunteer a lot of time, and you plowed through a lot of data

774
01:13:27,560 --> 01:13:32,260
to get us to where we're at. So thank you. Bonnie Boat Wright is phenomenal. I said that

775
01:13:33,140 --> 01:13:39,800
can't lose her the public. Again, 5,000 touch points, which means a lot of people gave up time to

776
01:13:39,800 --> 01:13:45,100
meet with someone or come to a public session or even to fill out a survey. So thank you for doing that

777
01:13:45,100 --> 01:13:50,460
because that's a wonderful reflection on Columbus. And then a special thank you to the redevelopment

778
01:13:50,460 --> 01:13:56,640
commission for paying for this, right? Got to love the fact that you can you're willing to and

779
01:13:56,640 --> 01:14:02,340
see how important this is to the community. And then Columbus City Council, because again, you

780
01:14:02,340 --> 01:14:07,320
supported this, you see the need for this and you know that a lot of this will come back to you for

781
01:14:07,320 --> 01:14:13,200
eventual approvals. So thank you. And with that, I think we're going to turn it over for questions.

782
01:14:13,540 --> 01:14:19,860
Right, Bonnie? Yes. For, for City Council and the redevelopment commission,

783
01:14:19,860 --> 01:14:28,400
I'd love to take your questions and then after those questions are answered by our experts, we'd like to open it up to the public for questions.

784
01:14:31,010 --> 01:14:32,650
Thank you, Mayor Ferdon.

785
01:14:33,670 --> 01:14:36,530
Bonnie, are you going to take the microphone around?

786
01:14:37,050 --> 01:14:38,890
I'm not going to start with all of you.

787
01:14:39,630 --> 01:14:39,810
Okay.

788
01:14:40,510 --> 01:14:41,990
We'll go to the public.

789
01:14:42,050 --> 01:14:42,390
Okay.

790
01:14:42,650 --> 01:14:43,110
Sounds great.

791
01:14:43,990 --> 01:14:46,190
So what questions do you have for us?

792
01:14:51,130 --> 01:14:54,410
I don't have any questions, but Bonnie, thanks for what you did.

793
01:14:54,410 --> 01:14:59,970
And thanks to the team there, you know, been watching this kind of brewing slowly over the month.

794
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:14,940
And from my point of view, you guys just knocked it out of the park. That was absolutely phenomenal. And having that, I think is going to be very powerful and informing, you know, our decisions moving forward here downtown. So thanks.

795
01:15:19,580 --> 01:15:31,400
Great work. Thank you for the presentation. Hi. And I, I just was curious about the, some of the housing numbers that you presented. So it says 750 new housing units in the downtown area.

796
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:40,320
So did you incorporate the two projects that are coming as well, so that we have the development on 11th of Washington and then six in Washington.

797
01:15:40,520 --> 01:15:46,620
So those numbers are already are they included in the 750 number or was that in addition to those projects that have already been approved.

798
01:15:48,200 --> 01:15:51,700
Yes, so those projects have been incorporated into that number of 700.

799
01:15:51,880 --> 01:15:55,040
So it's included so 750's inclusive of those two projects.

800
01:15:55,040 --> 01:15:55,520
That's correct.

801
01:15:55,540 --> 01:15:56,920
Okay, perfect. Thank you.

802
01:15:58,680 --> 01:16:05,440
And then I guess I had some questions around like the, so you have a lot of programming, right?

803
01:16:05,660 --> 01:16:14,860
You had a lot of programming recommendations and I guess my question is around with implementation of some of those programming recommendations.

804
01:16:15,720 --> 01:16:26,120
Do you also, I didn't see if it was included in here because this was just a lot of information, but we have, you know, a lot of internal competing programming that we do currently,

805
01:16:26,120 --> 01:16:30,940
right like at Nexus and at the air park and so do you have recommendations for us on how

806
01:16:30,940 --> 01:16:36,400
we kind of incentivize people to come downtown or prioritize some of that programming?

807
01:16:37,840 --> 01:16:42,760
We do absolutely. So one of the things we heard loud and clear from folks here in Columbus through

808
01:16:42,760 --> 01:16:47,900
our many phases of engagement is how much they love the events that take place downtown and we saw

809
01:16:47,900 --> 01:16:52,240
in the numbers that SB freedom was able to collect just how many people that those events bring

810
01:16:52,240 --> 01:16:57,860
downtown, not only locals but folks from the entire region and from afar. And we're seeing more

811
01:16:57,860 --> 01:17:02,000
things bubbling up with some of the projects that are taking shape in other corners of the

812
01:17:02,000 --> 01:17:06,840
community to revitalize the massets downtown and to think about the reuse of some of these spaces

813
01:17:06,840 --> 01:17:13,020
in new ways. So we took a multi-pronged approach to thinking about programming and I'll relay some of those.

814
01:17:13,340 --> 01:17:19,460
So first is strengthening the opportunity to use some of the spaces that are already beloved

815
01:17:19,460 --> 01:17:23,320
as destinations for programming, like the library,

816
01:17:23,460 --> 01:17:28,020
Plaza, like Mel Race Park, making them more accessible to more people,

817
01:17:28,240 --> 01:17:31,180
streamlining the process for hosting those events,

818
01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:35,580
and actually starting to build into the calendar,

819
01:17:37,020 --> 01:17:38,800
some kind of default opportunities,

820
01:17:39,500 --> 01:17:41,080
which I can get into more detail if you'd like,

821
01:17:41,340 --> 01:17:43,480
but essentially creating a platform that makes it easier

822
01:17:43,480 --> 01:17:45,480
for more people more organizations to host events

823
01:17:45,480 --> 01:17:46,480
in some of these spaces.

824
01:17:46,480 --> 01:18:08,480
A second instance is using some of the spaces that you have downtown already that we see as underutilized have heard from folks are underutilized those are pockets of green space in some cases in some cases their grander landscapes, but they're they're just not activated right now people don't feel they have permission necessarily to use it just speaking kind of in terms of the everyday experience of people.

825
01:18:08,480 --> 01:18:14,820
So, we're putting recommendations for about how you can give permission to people to use those spaces with really low cost,

826
01:18:14,820 --> 01:18:18,200
minor things that just kind of open them up for greater access.

827
01:18:19,000 --> 01:18:24,560
So, activating spaces that are already active today, but could do more activating spaces that are not used today

828
01:18:24,560 --> 01:18:26,600
and encouraging more casual use.

829
01:18:26,880 --> 01:18:38,460
And then, as far as some of the grander spaces like Mill-Race Park, of course, we want more formal activation in the way of a

830
01:18:38,460 --> 01:18:44,560
connectivity to, and then improvements that specifically are geared towards being able

831
01:18:44,560 --> 01:18:48,200
to host events. We know that there's some infrastructure in there that was originally designed

832
01:18:48,200 --> 01:18:53,740
for hosting events and has since fallen into state of disrepair or doesn't meet modern needs.

833
01:18:54,340 --> 01:18:57,960
So we know you'll embark on a process to master plan and they'll raise parts specifically,

834
01:18:58,040 --> 01:19:01,640
but we've incorporated some recommendations that get right at those spaces.

835
01:19:02,560 --> 01:19:08,260
Okay. And then, selfishly, I'm curious what your recommendation timing is on the

836
01:19:08,260 --> 01:19:09,560
flash pad specifically.

837
01:19:13,480 --> 01:19:20,490
Do you have, that would be the next week? As I mentioned and Chris

838
01:19:20,490 --> 01:19:26,090
also just sort of mentioned, again, from SB Freedman's sort of the metrics of the

839
01:19:26,090 --> 01:19:32,550
market analysis, they saw some of your events, you know, whether it's pride or other

840
01:19:32,550 --> 01:19:36,590
it's Latinx festival that you have really drawing tremendous amounts of people in the

841
01:19:36,590 --> 01:19:44,730
town. And so to sort of, you know, add an additional use to that and, you know, we visited some

842
01:19:44,730 --> 01:19:49,570
of your competitors, cities around here, who have very impressive splash pads and children's

843
01:19:49,570 --> 01:19:58,470
place faces. But that was something which, again, alongside a longer-term mill-race park master plan

844
01:19:58,470 --> 01:20:03,970
for how to sort of think about the amphitheater and the tower and some of those faces, which needs

845
01:20:03,970 --> 01:20:10,590
and help. There is a sort of a shorter term investment that can be made, again, quite simply

846
01:20:10,590 --> 01:20:16,470
with this flash pad and sort of playground area. You have ample parking already existing today.

847
01:20:16,890 --> 01:20:23,490
And so I think you could do sort of a mini charat around big picture sort of ideas for the

848
01:20:23,490 --> 01:20:27,070
park. That's make sure we're not putting it someplace where it's going to preclude some other

849
01:20:27,070 --> 01:20:32,770
future use. But really think about in that area, which is close to fourth and fifth close to the

850
01:20:33,250 --> 01:20:35,910
community to parking so that families can get air

851
01:20:35,910 --> 01:20:38,970
your store where all the other things that you need to take with

852
01:20:38,970 --> 01:20:42,670
the kids and you can move on that very quickly. Again, as this city

853
01:20:42,670 --> 01:20:46,050
owned land we would recommend that you do also I think it's a pretty easy

854
01:20:46,050 --> 01:20:50,590
win. So I was trying to look in your eyes could zoom in on this thing.

855
01:20:51,490 --> 01:20:54,790
I didn't see it under economic development or public realm or

856
01:20:54,790 --> 01:20:58,830
programming do you wear without fall that's the group I'm gonna follow.

857
01:20:59,050 --> 01:20:59,790
Oh see Thank you.

858
01:21:00,090 --> 01:21:01,370
So you're zooming all the way just to

859
01:21:01,370 --> 01:21:02,510
in the 50 plus record.

860
01:21:02,590 --> 01:21:03,830
So I need to harass you.

861
01:21:05,950 --> 01:21:08,590
I don't look for too much detail here.

862
01:21:08,630 --> 01:21:09,830
This is very outdated at this point.

863
01:21:10,230 --> 01:21:13,410
But that is in our public realm and infrastructure.

864
01:21:13,930 --> 01:21:14,930
OK, thank you.

865
01:21:15,190 --> 01:21:17,390
Because I would require construction

866
01:21:17,390 --> 01:21:18,650
of a public realm.

867
01:21:18,930 --> 01:21:19,450
OK, yeah.

868
01:21:20,650 --> 01:21:21,550
We'll just play your answer.

869
01:21:22,510 --> 01:21:22,930
It's a there.

870
01:21:23,070 --> 01:21:23,930
Yeah, it's under that.

871
01:21:24,070 --> 01:21:25,470
Yeah, and there are public realm and infrastructure.

872
01:21:25,810 --> 01:21:26,490
And the first ones.

873
01:21:26,650 --> 01:21:27,150
Thank you.

874
01:21:27,710 --> 01:21:29,890
And then for the last question, sorry.

875
01:21:29,890 --> 01:21:30,550
And then I'll be done.

876
01:21:30,550 --> 01:21:34,650
For the conference center, I was just curious

877
01:21:34,650 --> 01:21:37,450
how did we come to the determination that that was still

878
01:21:37,450 --> 01:21:39,190
like a really high priority was this like,

879
01:21:39,670 --> 01:21:41,630
hotel data that we collected, citywide,

880
01:21:41,810 --> 01:21:44,050
or how did we come, what were the kind of the drivers

881
01:21:44,050 --> 01:21:45,030
for that decision?

882
01:21:46,450 --> 01:21:48,150
That was what we said, yeah, that's what we wanted to do.

883
01:21:48,630 --> 01:21:51,530
So the way we were looking at this was,

884
01:21:51,630 --> 01:21:53,570
there's a hundred study which is relatively recent.

885
01:21:53,590 --> 01:21:55,190
There was one which was done pre-pandemic

886
01:21:55,190 --> 01:21:56,810
and then there was a more recent donation.

887
01:21:56,810 --> 01:22:02,770
And that does show strong ADR and relatively high occupancy.

888
01:22:03,390 --> 01:22:05,630
Much of the feedback that we've also received

889
01:22:05,630 --> 01:22:09,210
from institutions, corporations, and stuff have also

890
01:22:09,210 --> 01:22:13,090
suggested that that's one of the top priority uses.

891
01:22:13,890 --> 01:22:15,750
And then the final component, I would

892
01:22:15,750 --> 01:22:19,450
say, is that residential brings a particular kind of demand

893
01:22:19,950 --> 01:22:21,490
or vibrancy look at downtown.

894
01:22:22,450 --> 01:22:25,690
And they're there living for shopping,

895
01:22:25,690 --> 01:22:30,150
daily niche shopping, you know, they'll probably go out of the downtown, you know, in the near

896
01:22:30,150 --> 01:22:37,050
town. But when you have a hotel visitor, it's a very different niche of like, of spending that

897
01:22:37,050 --> 01:22:44,290
you get, and it's very captureable in that local area. So, you know, so if you had 150 hotel plus meetings

898
01:22:44,290 --> 01:22:51,450
and events, it brings a slew of people with it that does spending. So, ultimately, I think the

899
01:22:51,450 --> 01:22:55,130
redevelopment commission has to look at the cost benefit of that because there's a high upfront

900
01:22:55,130 --> 01:23:00,270
cost, which would be public subsidy, but there is a long-term benefit in terms of just spending

901
01:23:00,270 --> 01:23:02,450
and vibrancy and activity that it would generate.

902
01:23:09,110 --> 01:23:15,890
The only comment I'd like to make is that I really appreciate what the mayor and you all have

903
01:23:15,890 --> 01:23:20,630
done as far as the structure is concerned, because we have a very organic growth out of what's

904
01:23:20,630 --> 01:23:25,230
going to be the priorities for each one of these teams that is going to basically set some more

905
01:23:25,230 --> 01:23:32,930
direction for us to act on, and I think that shows the community's commitment to be involved

906
01:23:32,930 --> 01:23:38,750
in those, but for us not to set those but us to look and see what comes up from the ground

907
01:23:38,750 --> 01:23:44,410
up, and I think your guidance is going to give them a lot of a lot of road maps in order

908
01:23:44,410 --> 01:23:45,070
to get there.

909
01:23:45,150 --> 01:23:48,350
So it's going to be exciting to see what comes out of each one of those groups.

910
01:23:48,670 --> 01:23:49,910
Thank you.

911
01:23:49,910 --> 01:23:51,510
It looks

912
01:23:53,590 --> 01:23:55,730
like I don't think it's lines off.

913
01:23:57,510 --> 01:24:02,650
So a real quick question on all this first, you guys have done a great job putting

914
01:24:02,650 --> 01:24:05,890
all this together and with the work that you put into it.

915
01:24:05,910 --> 01:24:10,950
I have an assumption that you might have an estimate for cost.

916
01:24:12,590 --> 01:24:17,090
So if we did, you've suggested the

917
01:24:21,180 --> 01:24:22,120
N10 million.

918
01:24:23,400 --> 01:24:25,740
I know you're not,

919
01:24:27,900 --> 01:24:33,980
but a lot in some of us like myself being on a school corporation board.

920
01:24:35,320 --> 01:24:40,560
We're going to have a lot of questions coming up in taxes and how,

921
01:24:43,020 --> 01:24:53,680
and so I just, I'm curious is to have, have you run any preliminary numbers that might show investment and return on and ask me to pay back.

922
01:24:56,580 --> 01:25:07,100
I don't know, I'm happy to answer that, but I had to run it, but I guess that part of it is like the pure number crunching on it was beyond the scope of a planning effort.

923
01:25:07,800 --> 01:25:21,600
I will say this, that the way to think about cost, like the first level that we think of it is that if it's a private redevelopment, for example, the first dollar is a private dollar.

924
01:25:21,600 --> 01:25:24,280
It's not a city dollar that goes out first.

925
01:25:24,420 --> 01:25:29,700
It is private investment that we're trying to get when it is a private site, we development.

926
01:25:31,100 --> 01:25:37,700
We will look at, you know, we're hoping that there's philanthropic opportunities, like even on public improvements and public parks.

927
01:25:38,740 --> 01:25:45,380
There are significant shares of philanthropic and dollars that often come in and in a community like yours.

928
01:25:45,720 --> 01:25:48,780
We would expect that to be a part of the capital stack.

929
01:25:49,560 --> 01:25:53,820
In certain instances, you can also go for state and federal grants.

930
01:25:53,900 --> 01:25:55,320
So you want to go for state and federal.

931
01:25:55,620 --> 01:25:59,460
And then you know, there are local resources like tick, which are in play.

932
01:25:59,840 --> 01:26:03,620
But in terms of the order of priority, you want to look at private investment

933
01:26:03,620 --> 01:26:07,100
and then when it's necessary, you use public investment.

934
01:26:07,660 --> 01:26:12,520
Obviously, some of the pure public projects, there's going to be like public dollars to it.

935
01:26:12,920 --> 01:26:14,600
And like public investment.

936
01:26:14,920 --> 01:26:18,160
But you want to leverage that with additional private investments.

937
01:26:18,160 --> 01:26:21,440
So like our first moves that a lot of it

938
01:26:21,440 --> 01:26:23,980
is recommended as private investment,

939
01:26:24,400 --> 01:26:26,780
which generates tax dollars in public investment.

940
01:26:27,140 --> 01:26:30,620
So we've not done a return on investment

941
01:26:30,620 --> 01:26:33,480
in every one of those, like that's sort of beyond the scope

942
01:26:33,480 --> 01:26:34,980
of where we are right now.

943
01:26:35,380 --> 01:26:37,780
But in general, we've just done it on experience

944
01:26:37,780 --> 01:26:40,040
that these kinds of projects generate activity,

945
01:26:40,900 --> 01:26:43,320
generate tax dollars and they'll be identified

946
01:26:43,320 --> 01:26:47,220
find the kinds of uses that make sense.

947
01:26:47,720 --> 01:26:52,260
But it's an excellent question, not one,

948
01:26:52,460 --> 01:26:54,460
that in any way, shape or form, we're trying to avoid.

949
01:26:55,100 --> 01:26:57,900
I think it's several months premature.

950
01:26:58,380 --> 01:27:01,540
In another couple of months, that's a incredibly valid

951
01:27:01,540 --> 01:27:03,500
and important question to begin asking

952
01:27:04,040 --> 01:27:08,140
as the mayor and her teams begin to think about

953
01:27:08,140 --> 01:27:11,320
those sort of real estate piece, the public programming,

954
01:27:12,300 --> 01:27:13,980
the public realm, sort of component.

955
01:27:13,980 --> 01:27:20,360
and they begin to prioritize those projects that I think the question is absolutely necessary

956
01:27:20,360 --> 01:27:26,900
and you begin to think more collectively, you know, now that I see what the priorities are

957
01:27:26,900 --> 01:27:33,100
and some of the potential costs as well as return assessment, and let's start to think about

958
01:27:33,100 --> 01:27:38,940
where we can most probably spend that money. I think it's absolutely a great question to be asking

959
01:27:38,940 --> 01:27:43,900
I think it's a little bit early, specifically within what we were asked to do on this.

960
01:27:44,540 --> 01:27:45,680
No way trying to avoid it.

961
01:27:46,140 --> 01:27:46,540
Great.

962
01:27:47,780 --> 01:27:48,160
Hi.

963
01:27:48,440 --> 01:27:48,560
Hi.

964
01:27:48,740 --> 01:27:49,360
I had our team.

965
01:27:49,500 --> 01:27:50,060
I had a question.

966
01:27:50,260 --> 01:27:50,880
Thank you, sister.

967
01:27:51,980 --> 01:27:53,100
For presenting.

968
01:27:54,560 --> 01:27:57,160
We obviously know housing is very important.

969
01:27:57,460 --> 01:28:02,940
And you referenced which we greatly appreciate the housing study as far as implementation.

970
01:28:03,700 --> 01:28:04,940
Some of the high level.

971
01:28:04,940 --> 01:28:08,100
And I know this is high-level mentioned multi-family housing

972
01:28:08,100 --> 01:28:09,460
and a variety of areas.

973
01:28:09,840 --> 01:28:13,180
Will the further break down for recommendations

974
01:28:13,180 --> 01:28:17,340
include various types of housing structures of housing?

975
01:28:17,500 --> 01:28:22,260
I know there's a large need for multi-income housing,

976
01:28:22,680 --> 01:28:26,020
artists, just people who we can just work at our services

977
01:28:26,020 --> 01:28:28,280
establishments for the ability to live,

978
01:28:28,320 --> 01:28:30,020
live where they work and live downtown.

979
01:28:30,560 --> 01:28:32,180
And so I guess I'm short.

980
01:28:32,180 --> 01:28:43,820
Well, that broader idea of types of housing directed at a really diverse income level be addressed in the further plan.

981
01:28:44,820 --> 01:28:53,440
Absolutely. So we have as one of our objectives that this is a downtown for all of Columbus and that should be.

982
01:28:53,600 --> 01:28:58,940
That should manifest in each of the recommendations particularly as we think about growth and new development opportunities.

983
01:28:58,940 --> 01:29:04,660
What we are doing for each of the sites that we're recommending housing is looking at a variety of different models.

984
01:29:05,020 --> 01:29:12,150
So in fact, we showed one select example of different housing that could take shape for each of these sites in the presentation today.

985
01:29:12,620 --> 01:29:20,320
But so the final report that we deliver will look at one, two, and in some cases, three different models of housing for each of the sites.

986
01:29:20,940 --> 01:29:23,340
So that that takes on a kind of formal character.

987
01:29:23,340 --> 01:29:27,520
is this townhouses, is it multifamily, is it some kind of hybrid, that's a kind of typology

988
01:29:27,520 --> 01:29:31,940
discussion offering more product types to more people who are looking for different living

989
01:29:31,940 --> 01:29:38,020
situations. The kind of next layer of that is the the model housing as far as affordability

990
01:29:38,020 --> 01:29:43,040
as far as the specific communities served. We will provide recommendations to encourage diversity.

991
01:29:43,340 --> 01:29:49,060
We will not go as far as to put together a form of any of these particular products to show

992
01:29:49,060 --> 01:29:55,440
how that could work, but we will certainly encourage diverse housing across the different dimensions that you mentioned.

993
01:29:59,100 --> 01:29:59,980
Are there any other questions?

994
01:30:02,320 --> 01:30:13,840
All just give some feedback, Mr. Major, maybe think about BCSE's vision statement to be the choice to live work and play.

995
01:30:13,980 --> 01:30:23,200
And as I was hearing, your presentation and maybe think about helping our downtown be that choice to live work and play.

996
01:30:23,200 --> 01:30:33,220
saw that balance of trying to maintain extent and preserve our architectural legacy as well as

997
01:30:33,220 --> 01:30:40,140
you know, at a pooling that into the future. I was some pretty fun ideas as well as some very

998
01:30:40,140 --> 01:30:49,480
practical things. I wanted to give that feedback that I felt like you really listened to the people

999
01:30:49,480 --> 01:30:58,700
Columbus. I know that it's hard to come into a community and to both download a long history as

1000
01:30:58,700 --> 01:31:05,340
well as the pulse of things and with the downtown being, you know, the heartbeat of our community

1001
01:31:05,340 --> 01:31:12,380
felt like you really nailed that and I'm excited to hear the short-term long-term and everywhere

1002
01:31:12,380 --> 01:31:19,300
between. So, thank you, Bonnie, as well. I really appreciate you being so key in this. So that's my feedback.

1003
01:31:23,670 --> 01:31:26,630
Any other? Any other questions?

1004
01:31:28,130 --> 01:31:34,330
comments? Yeah. Well, then if there are no further questions, Bonnie,

1005
01:31:35,270 --> 01:31:40,510
putting it up for the questions from the public, Bonnie will bring the mic to you and then

1006
01:31:41,190 --> 01:31:46,490
Sasaki and their team will address them comprehensively at the end of the questions.

1007
01:31:47,470 --> 01:31:54,270
So note that your question will be noted and they will comprehensively answer them at the end.

1008
01:31:54,970 --> 01:31:59,670
In the interest of time, we thought we would open it for 15 minutes of your questions.

1009
01:32:00,510 --> 01:32:08,510
So I can come to you ask the question, these guys are going to write really fast and then at the end of the 15 minutes they'll respond.

1010
01:32:08,510 --> 01:32:10,570
Does anyone have questions?

1011
01:32:14,640 --> 01:32:16,060
Someone's gotta be the first.

1012
01:32:16,420 --> 01:32:17,140
There we go.

1013
01:32:21,190 --> 01:32:22,050
Hey, great work.

1014
01:32:22,130 --> 01:32:24,230
Excited to see all of this.

1015
01:32:24,250 --> 01:32:26,590
I'm very much excited about when you talk about

1016
01:32:26,590 --> 01:32:27,250
walkability.

1017
01:32:29,030 --> 01:32:30,890
Visit a lot of places and it seems like

1018
01:32:30,890 --> 01:32:31,670
more walkable it is.

1019
01:32:31,730 --> 01:32:32,870
The more people are there.

1020
01:32:33,930 --> 01:32:35,110
What's fortunate is somewhere to visit

1021
01:32:35,110 --> 01:32:35,850
back on a island.

1022
01:32:36,670 --> 01:32:38,090
And everybody I tell that they're like,

1023
01:32:38,210 --> 01:32:39,290
oh, there's no cars there.

1024
01:32:39,530 --> 01:32:40,230
There's no cars there.

1025
01:32:40,330 --> 01:32:40,930
You have to walk.

1026
01:32:41,010 --> 01:32:41,490
You have to bike.

1027
01:32:41,750 --> 01:32:42,410
You're so exciting.

1028
01:32:42,410 --> 01:32:46,470
I think, you know, we could do that in all our other communities to be, that'd be kind of cool.

1029
01:32:47,190 --> 01:32:50,870
I just wanted to know, like, we'll kind of get data or anything we can provide, because I know,

1030
01:32:51,210 --> 01:32:57,150
once we do, if you were to say, start to take streets away in our change streets, car people,

1031
01:32:57,410 --> 01:33:03,090
don't like that very much, so provide on information about if there's anything real data

1032
01:33:03,090 --> 01:33:08,210
about providing more capability, making that kind of a more of a priority.

1033
01:33:08,870 --> 01:33:09,690
I'd love to hear it. Thanks.

1034
01:33:11,210 --> 01:33:12,490
Thank you, Todd.

1035
01:33:13,370 --> 01:33:16,650
Now there were some other people that had questions.

1036
01:33:20,630 --> 01:33:27,590
Yes, one of the recommendations of the housing study or finding was that there's

1037
01:33:27,590 --> 01:33:31,910
will be growing interest in housing for retirees.

1038
01:33:31,970 --> 01:33:39,950
I think that was a major finding both young retirees and well settled retirees.

1039
01:33:39,950 --> 01:33:49,750
And I'm familiar with one of the peer communities Holland, Michigan that's been successful in downtown housing and senior services.

1040
01:33:50,690 --> 01:34:06,790
So was that a specific focus of your study looking at retirees as a population needing more diversity as far as housing?

1041
01:34:10,570 --> 01:34:11,270
Thank you.

1042
01:34:11,270 --> 01:34:12,570
other questions.

1043
01:34:31,650 --> 01:34:36,990
I just have a question about younger people in the community and I know

1044
01:34:36,990 --> 01:34:43,130
in my experience I have a lot of younger that since their work is no longer in person they

1045
01:34:43,130 --> 01:34:48,770
have moved away to for bigger cities and I was wondering if that was the factor in your plan.

1046
01:34:49,150 --> 01:34:55,490
I didn't know you did mention something about or Mary for our mayor. Mary mentioned about

1047
01:34:56,410 --> 01:35:05,710
cities that have done better about bringing people back into work. Is that a part of your plan and do you think that'll help younger people stay in town?

1048
01:35:06,730 --> 01:35:07,130
Right. Question.

1049
01:35:16,030 --> 01:35:16,810
Other questions?

1050
01:35:21,640 --> 01:35:24,880
Okay. I'll let you take it from here.

1051
01:35:24,880 --> 01:35:26,660
Do you want to use the book?

1052
01:35:26,920 --> 01:35:27,400
Well, I feel awkward.

1053
01:35:31,740 --> 01:35:32,440
I'm happy.

1054
01:35:33,520 --> 01:35:33,860
Thank you.

1055
01:35:33,980 --> 01:35:34,780
Excellent questions.

1056
01:35:35,600 --> 01:35:36,620
Well, I've certainly

1057
01:35:37,780 --> 01:35:41,080
fielded much more contentious questions from other communities.

1058
01:35:42,880 --> 01:35:43,520
is there all terrific?

1059
01:35:43,860 --> 01:35:45,200
So we'll start with,

1060
01:35:45,240 --> 01:35:46,700
I'll talk about the very first one, which is

1061
01:35:46,700 --> 01:35:47,160
walkability.

1062
01:35:47,420 --> 01:35:48,820
So that's a great point.

1063
01:35:49,540 --> 01:35:53,200
And for all of us who travel near and far,

1064
01:35:53,560 --> 01:35:56,040
we do see this sort of relationship between

1065
01:35:56,040 --> 01:36:24,040
the higher level of, you know, walkability in a place, specifically as we think about the spectrum from everyday users to tourists as a matter of fact. And oftentimes that walkability correlates with, you know, spending, but also increased safety, as well as sort of this broader issues sort of accessibility as we begin to think about, you know, there's other two questions.

1066
01:36:24,760 --> 01:36:32,320
the very young to the older and making sure that everyone feels welcome and safe.

1067
01:36:32,640 --> 01:36:37,900
And so one of those great little lessons is that what you do for the least among us,

1068
01:36:38,080 --> 01:36:43,000
let's say handicap ramps actually helps this broad spectrum, specifically around

1069
01:36:43,000 --> 01:36:49,180
walkability from a stroller to someone using a walker.

1070
01:36:49,480 --> 01:36:51,360
So it's really interesting to think about that walkability.

1071
01:36:51,360 --> 01:36:59,480
So in terms of the actual metrics, I think the society team, particularly, we work a lot in cities.

1072
01:36:59,640 --> 01:37:04,740
I mean, look at sort of the understanding of walkability in cities. I don't think we have hard numbers.

1073
01:37:05,140 --> 01:37:21,040
But, however, there is a way to sort of think about those places where we can bring people together, keep them concentrated, keep them relatively close together in terms of how far folks are willing to walk.

1074
01:37:21,040 --> 01:37:41,140
And I think one of the recommendations that we made was really to sort of emphasize the journey from interoculous to mill race is actually only about three blocks and there's a sort of metric and urban design which is about 1200 feet is as long as you want to sort of extend and activated street.

1075
01:37:41,140 --> 01:37:48,420
So you think about where on Washington folks feel most comfortable, and then you think about sort of that distance between

1076
01:37:48,420 --> 01:37:53,340
interoculous and the park. And that's just about right. And so that's a little bit of a metric around

1077
01:37:53,340 --> 01:38:00,580
walkability and activation that we think is relevant. One of the other points that sticks in my mind is we did sort of review

1078
01:38:01,980 --> 01:38:10,200
the availability of parking downtown because we heard often that there wasn't enough parking. And we sort of went back to your

1079
01:38:10,200 --> 01:38:15,340
parking study, which is a number of years old, and also, you know, recounted and looked at that.

1080
01:38:15,440 --> 01:38:21,820
And there's over, there's close to 7,000 spaces downtown, parking spaces, both private and public.

1081
01:38:22,140 --> 01:38:25,880
Some of them are muted, some of them are in garages, but there's a whole variety.

1082
01:38:26,480 --> 01:38:34,120
So you really have to think about the prioritization about the walkability and parking, ease of access, help people move about.

1083
01:38:34,120 --> 01:38:40,960
And actually those two things don't need to be exclusive, but you can park and walk a few blocks.

1084
01:38:41,120 --> 01:38:45,380
I think that's really the key to sort of making it a more comfortable downtown, more broadly,

1085
01:38:46,360 --> 01:38:52,120
that achieves both goals of walkability and then ease of access for folks coming from near and far.

1086
01:38:52,400 --> 01:38:59,420
So that's a little bit about walkability, but it's a great point in something that we actually heard from some of the members of the steering committee

1087
01:38:59,420 --> 01:39:12,420
When they started talking about pedestrian bridges up and over things and we said no, it's just simpler that I'm walk on the sidewalks that I'm experienced the stores and let them move quite simply it's easier for a greater ray array in spectrum of folks.

1088
01:39:13,500 --> 01:39:15,420
Great question. Let's number one second question.

1089
01:39:21,840 --> 01:39:25,080
So we took a really close look I'll stand up as well.

1090
01:39:25,080 --> 01:39:31,140
We took a really close look at the housing study that was conducted very recently and in fact when we were here back in October that was the presentation of it

1091
01:39:31,140 --> 01:39:35,880
So we started this project with a great kind of insight into what the housing needs were

1092
01:39:35,880 --> 01:39:44,120
This trend of people moving to downtown is cross cutting across all the different kind of populations young people

1093
01:39:45,380 --> 01:39:50,880
senior's are all looking for a more urban lifestyle, not all of them, but each of those

1094
01:39:51,420 --> 01:39:56,740
demographics is picking up urban housing more and more. So we definitely did look at the

1095
01:39:56,740 --> 01:40:01,240
opportunity for senior housing as part of the growth that we're projecting and recommending

1096
01:40:01,240 --> 01:40:09,140
to take shape downtown. It's a definite demographic that you benefit a huge amount to capture

1097
01:40:09,140 --> 01:40:14,220
in the downtown. So we are not making recommendations specifically about where senior or

1098
01:40:14,220 --> 01:40:18,460
our housing or anything like that can go, but it's all part of the mix and it is definitely considered

1099
01:40:18,460 --> 01:40:23,020
as part of the process. Do you think that's what that has to be Friedman folks?

1100
01:40:24,380 --> 01:40:31,720
No, I think we can do anything I would add to that. General trends. So when we look at housing,

1101
01:40:32,320 --> 01:40:36,300
this is the aging of the baby boomers. So there's a general demographic shift towards the

1102
01:40:37,360 --> 01:40:42,200
older retirees and like they have you know they have money they have they can spend. So we do want

1103
01:40:43,680 --> 01:40:50,100
that opportunity downtown but the way we've also looked at it is as Chris said you want the full diversity,

1104
01:40:50,540 --> 01:40:56,560
you want the young person downtown, you want the you know more elderly person downtown and it has to get

1105
01:40:56,560 --> 01:41:05,940
downtown which works for all. So that that is generally the thrust of what we focused on. So it's a

1106
01:41:05,940 --> 01:41:13,100
developers want to do will come downtown and I'm hoping that there's a way for the city to encourage

1107
01:41:13,100 --> 01:41:18,660
like access to all kinds of housing for all people. So I think that was one. The only thing I wanted

1108
01:41:18,660 --> 01:41:25,800
to respond with the younger people point and you can take it from there is I think what keeps

1109
01:41:25,800 --> 01:41:30,660
young people. Obviously there's access to opportunity. So if you have a job elsewhere, you know,

1110
01:41:30,660 --> 01:41:37,260
to that. But the other piece of it also is that young people are looking for a really exciting

1111
01:41:37,260 --> 01:41:43,600
place and with a lot of activities and things to do. And that's kind of where the thrust of

1112
01:41:43,600 --> 01:41:51,280
our plan is. It's really looking at finding opportunities which you already have the right bones for

1113
01:41:51,280 --> 01:41:56,340
it. You have parks, you have plaza. Some of them just need to be activated a little bit more

1114
01:41:56,340 --> 01:42:01,500
little bit more retail and restaurants and we're trying to come up with the program of other

1115
01:42:01,500 --> 01:42:08,300
uses like residential hotel with sort of creates that activity with then generates the retail

1116
01:42:08,300 --> 01:42:14,400
and the restaurants and more and sort of become self reinforcing. So we are trying to make a

1117
01:42:14,400 --> 01:42:19,060
doubt on which is school for everyone and then that attracts the young people and and the

1118
01:42:19,060 --> 01:42:20,260
older people as well.

1119
01:42:23,540 --> 01:42:26,680
So I'll just add one more point to that because the question

1120
01:42:26,680 --> 01:42:29,880
that question we received by younger people

1121
01:42:29,880 --> 01:42:32,260
asks specifically about working in person.

1122
01:42:32,360 --> 01:42:34,860
Well, that'll keep them here or bring more people here.

1123
01:42:35,220 --> 01:42:37,600
The reality is we don't know what the future of office

1124
01:42:37,600 --> 01:42:38,720
looks like in cities.

1125
01:42:39,000 --> 01:42:41,420
We just don't depend on them because change things.

1126
01:42:41,760 --> 01:42:43,080
We're seeing it in numbers here in Columbus.

1127
01:42:43,300 --> 01:42:44,840
We're seeing it in the numbers everywhere we work.

1128
01:42:45,460 --> 01:42:47,180
So there's a little bit of a way to see mentality

1129
01:42:47,180 --> 01:42:50,740
with that to see if office becomes a predominant use

1130
01:42:50,740 --> 01:42:52,840
in downtown if there's growth opportunity there.

1131
01:42:53,060 --> 01:42:55,660
But there are a few glimmers of light that we're seeing.

1132
01:42:55,660 --> 01:43:00,220
to run the, I think I mentioned this or I'm sorry, Michael, in the presentation, we're seeing

1133
01:43:00,220 --> 01:43:05,540
opportunity in co-working. We're seeing opportunities to get people who do work remotely

1134
01:43:05,540 --> 01:43:10,380
out of their homes into coffee shops, doing some work in that environment. There are opportunities

1135
01:43:10,380 --> 01:43:14,320
around the edges of some of this and a lot of the investments that we're proposing as part of this

1136
01:43:14,320 --> 01:43:19,500
plan are directly aimed at capitalizing upon that. So we didn't get into it a lot today, but we're

1137
01:43:19,500 --> 01:43:23,620
actually recommending the introduction of a co-working space downtown that requires an independent

1138
01:43:23,620 --> 01:43:27,420
an operator to come in and find the value and make that happen. Of course, and there's lots

1139
01:43:27,420 --> 01:43:31,600
of recommendations we can provide about how you all as a community can support that. But that's

1140
01:43:31,600 --> 01:43:36,400
a new model of work that you can bring more people downtown. They're working downtown, but in a

1141
01:43:36,400 --> 01:43:39,820
very different model than what you've seen before. They're spending downtown. You know, if they're

1142
01:43:39,820 --> 01:43:44,700
going to work in and look at the day, they're spending money on coffees and beverages and things

1143
01:43:44,700 --> 01:43:49,980
like that. So we want to see that and we want to capitalize on those opportunities. But as far as office,

1144
01:43:49,980 --> 01:43:51,740
you know but we don't know.

1145
01:43:56,050 --> 01:44:00,270
Other questions before we turn it back over, I just wanted to clarify

1146
01:44:00,270 --> 01:44:07,970
there's 53 hundred parking spaces downtown, not 7,000 for those taking notes. I just wanted

1147
01:44:07,970 --> 01:44:13,770
to clarify. I got that from your slide. So yeah, so it's 53 hundred. So don't go out and count.

1148
01:44:15,350 --> 01:44:16,030
Other questions?

1149
01:44:20,810 --> 01:44:25,970
Okay. Thank you very much. Thank you. As we approach the closing of our meeting,

1150
01:44:25,970 --> 01:44:31,810
I'd like to thank Bonnie once again for her efforts and managing such a pivotal project shaping

1151
01:44:31,810 --> 01:44:33,230
the future of our community.

1152
01:44:33,810 --> 01:44:39,930
I would also like to express additional gratitude, just socky, SB freedmen, and storyboard

1153
01:44:39,930 --> 01:44:42,470
for their incredible work and attention to detail.

1154
01:44:42,950 --> 01:44:48,110
These recommendations have been informed through many community workshop, two community workshops

1155
01:44:48,110 --> 01:44:53,650
with hundreds of attendance, two public surveys, with thousands of responses, event engagement,

1156
01:44:53,650 --> 01:44:59,930
accountless stakeholder and guiding team sessions of market study analysis and an immense intense.

1157
01:45:01,680 --> 01:45:21,300
We are incredibly excited and energized to hear these strategies for downtown success and we're excited for the implementation to come. I also want to say a pre thank you to the implementation steering committee and action teams. I know you guys have your work cut out for you. So thank you and advance.

1158
01:45:21,900 --> 01:45:29,100
Lastly, in review is the review and approval of our claims, this is our last, this is our action item as the redevelopment commission.

1159
01:45:29,660 --> 01:45:32,400
I believe there have been a few updates to our claims table.

1160
01:45:33,080 --> 01:45:35,340
Heather, would you please explain what that is?

1161
01:45:37,440 --> 01:45:38,300
Yes, thank you.

1162
01:45:40,120 --> 01:45:45,520
Commissioners, the claims table that went out has had two additions to it.

1163
01:45:45,520 --> 01:45:48,980
I don't know if you've had an opportunity to swing by the office this morning.

1164
01:45:49,940 --> 01:45:57,300
We've added the sharp Nick Bigley Stroke and Washburn invoice and a JS held invoice.

1165
01:45:58,240 --> 01:46:08,480
Those two added together brings our total expenditure for the month of $2 million, $937,972.

1166
01:46:08,480 --> 01:46:18,380
dollars and 39 cents. Originally it was 2,931,712, 10. So it's it's a little bit more

1167
01:46:18,380 --> 01:46:22,600
but I just wanted to let you know we opted to go ahead and pay those those some places

1168
01:46:22,600 --> 01:46:29,000
came in today and we wanted to just, hey, do I do go with you and get it done?

1169
01:46:33,280 --> 01:46:38,740
Thank you Heather. What I would like to do ask if there are are there any questions regarding

1170
01:46:38,740 --> 01:46:46,380
our claims. Yeah. Well, then I would take an emotion for approval of our claims. I'll make that

1171
01:46:46,380 --> 01:46:52,220
motion. Second. Okay, the motion was made by Cindy and seconded by Shannon. All those in

1172
01:46:52,220 --> 01:47:01,040
favor say aye. It's fast. If there is no further action, I would entertain a motion to adjourn

1173
01:47:01,040 --> 01:47:01,660
the meeting.

1174
01:47:06,120 --> 01:47:13,140
Is there a second? Okay, we have a motion by Jim and a second by Scott. All those

1175
01:47:13,140 --> 01:47:21,180
in favor say aye. And now we turn it over to council. Yes, thank you. Yes, thank you. Again to our

1176
01:47:21,180 --> 01:47:27,020
presenters and to the mayor and everyone who attended and listen, I think as they mentioned,

1177
01:47:27,340 --> 01:47:33,460
there will be additional follow up information as they wrap up this project in this presentation on the

1178
01:47:33,460 --> 01:47:42,560
that he's website. I believe the downtown 2030 website itself will still be live for a bit,

1179
01:47:43,060 --> 01:47:46,840
but eventually all the information will be somewhere on the city's website.

1180
01:47:47,080 --> 01:47:53,760
Like, the under redevelopment for house under relevant projects that it's addressing, but

1181
01:47:53,760 --> 01:48:00,580
thank you all. So we have no other agenda items as a city council. And so we are just looking

1182
01:48:00,580 --> 01:48:02,680
for a motion to adjourn. We have to adjourn.

1183
01:48:05,290 --> 01:48:05,450
Second.

1184
01:48:07,050 --> 01:48:08,170
All is in favor?

1185
01:48:08,790 --> 01:48:08,850
Sam?

1186
01:48:10,110 --> 01:48:10,270
Hi.

1187
01:48:11,390 --> 01:48:12,150
I'm Sam.

1188
01:48:13,130 --> 01:48:14,050
The meeting is adjourned.