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CRA Project Summary July (NB)
Explanation
As a regular informational item on CRA agendas, Staff provides a brief update on selected referrals, redevelopment projects and development agreements under review. This monthly update is typically a limited sampling of the CRA’s many on-going projects, as opposed to a complete list.
CRA Wide
Façade Grant, Project Manager, Jessica Leonard - The Façade Grant program is a competitive matching grant program that is designed to encourage reinvestment in building facades, specifically those located on highly visible target corridors within each district. Staff is enthusiastically expecting the approval of multiple façade grants in each district as a continued effort is placed in concentrated outreach and community engagements to help aid in awareness of the program. Staff is delighted to announce that we have four (4) façade grants that will be presented to the Fifth Avenue Pleasant Street Advisory Board for the first time in over four years. We currently have multiple façade grant projects underway across the four redevelopment areas.
Community Vitality Report, Project Manager, Ori Baber - At the February 2017 CRA Board meeting Staff introduced the Community Vitality Report as a way to take inventory of completed projects and better understand their effects on the quality of life in the CRA Districts. The objectives of the effort are to increase the capacity to measure the impacts of community initiatives, to gauge progress towards the redevelopment objectives, and to strengthen the ability to identify future projects with the greatest potential to contribute to community vitality. A framework was introduced that recognizes that the success of the CRA isn’t measured simply by increased property ...
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