PIOJ Growth-Inducement Strategy - Planning Institute of Jamaica
PIOJ Growth-Inducement Strategy - Planning Institute of Jamaica
PIOJ Growth-Inducement Strategy - Planning Institute of Jamaica
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2.0 Potential Core Features <strong>of</strong> the Centre<br />
A business concept based on the clustering <strong>of</strong> related and complementary commercial<br />
activities with cultural and social products and a unique-brand place-identity:<br />
- A major Community Policing Station that conveys a secured environment,<br />
coupled with humannness and kindness, that is socially “architectured” as<br />
the emotional gateway <strong>of</strong> the Centre and path to its desirable and unique<br />
place- identity experience<br />
- Financial, banking and business services targeting MSME clients and<br />
residents<br />
- Food Court with <strong>Jamaica</strong>n and international culinary variety<br />
- Movie theatre that doubles as performance stage, lecture hall and staging<br />
place for live taping <strong>of</strong> local production<br />
- Telecommunication network technology “hot zone”. This would<br />
commoditize consumers’ access to the globalized world and relationships<br />
with others that are more diverse and widespread<br />
- Superette with Pharmacy (10,000 square feet) designed for grocery carryby-walk,<br />
route-taxi and public transport<br />
- Extensive green social space which includes a therapeutic water display<br />
and a dinner-theatre amphitheatre<br />
- Commoditizing <strong>of</strong> social and cultural activities and spaces as part <strong>of</strong> the<br />
brand. This could include a Town Hall space for democratic engagement<br />
and discourse on civil society issues which would double as community<br />
meeting spaces during school hours and tutorial, mentoring (UWI, UTech,<br />
for e.g.) and study spaces during designated afternoon/evening and<br />
weekends.<br />
The clustering <strong>of</strong> these assets into an exclusive entity that <strong>of</strong>fers a distinctive urban,<br />
cosmopolitan, commercial experience, and one whose economic investment <strong>of</strong>fers<br />
sustained competitive returns, would be catalytic in the Downtown re-development effort.<br />
It could conciliate the Downtown renewal efforts, by creating an example <strong>of</strong> mobilizing<br />
capital to awaken and cultivate the latent and un-organized economic assets <strong>of</strong><br />
Downtown Kingston. It could also become a portable model for exploiting opportunities<br />
in the urban centres <strong>of</strong> Portmore and Montego Bay.<br />
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