23rd Avenue Corridor Action Team

23rd Avenue Corridor Action Team Meeting
Chart Notes
January 12, 2004

In attendance: Jennie, Susanne, Rick Jacobus, Lauren (EBALDC), Heather Hood, Randy, Pat C., Bill W., Elena, Jess Wendover, Diana Williams

Quick Business

• Real Estate Council update
• 23rd Avenue Neighbors
• Miller Library update—trying to schedule tour

IURD

• Settled on boundaries—International between 13th Ave and 22nd Ave of project
• Friday, January 23, meeting with students
  • Monday, January 26
  • Wednesday, January 28
• Follow-up meetings
  • Friday, March 19
  • Friday, May 16, or following week
• 23rd Avenue Neighbors meeting
  • Meeting on January 12
    • Working on another neighborhood clean-up February 7

Real Estate Council

• Going well
• Expressing interest in sites

Rick Jacobus, LISC— Main Street Model

• Handout: Commercial Corridor Revitalization Power Point
• Background on LISC project
• How you manage retail development has a direct impact on gentrification
• Focus on market and how you want to change consumer behavior
• All of these programs have at least one full-time program
• Dual oversight: CDC and a steering committee which provides day-to-day oversight
• 23rd Avenue could participate in LISC program
  • Apply for funding from LISC
  • Participate in peer network
• LISC has template for work plan
• Could help with outcomes development—what are we measuring/tracking over next five years
• Mix quick/easy projects with long-term projects within each goal area or subcommittee

Next Steps on 23rd Plan

• Will come out in March
• Handed out chart of goals/activities
  • Review of chart
• PAC timeline: Money starts flowing in July
  • Aren’t many solid proposals to PAC
  • Will be a PAC committee for tenant approvements [DO YOU MEAN “APPROVALS”?] “Infrastructure Committee”
• Question about meshing UE Plan and 23rd Avenue outcomes
• Whose Responsibility?
  • Develop PAC proposal for arts and cultural center
  • Jennie reports back on PAC infrastructure committee
  • Decide whether to apply to LISC program

Staffing—Randy

• Complicating factor—splitting person’s time between housing and 23rd Avenue
• Two FTE
  
• Neighborhood Revitalization Coordinator
  • One FTE
    • Assists committees
    • Facilitates moving projects forward
    • Fund development and resource role
• Real Estate Council
  • One FTE
    • Half-time on Real Estate Council
    • Half-time on real estate related to 23rd Avenue
• One or two Americorps members

Committees

• Commercial revitalization
• Arts and culture
• Real Estate Council
• Organizing and advocacy—mobilizing people to make investments
  
• Would be very easy to create a full-time position for real estate / housing work in neighborhood
• Casey willing to fund one person. Would have to fundraise for second position
• In conversations with Casey re funding priorities, should structure conversation around two FTE positions
• EBALDC would hire neighborhood revitalization coordinator first and cover housing
• Real benefits to bringing on both people at once
• Could raise Americorps dollars