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• City Council pursues the conversion of one-way avenues. A new study is soon to get underway. To date, two avenues in the East Hillside neighborhood – 12th And 14th Avenues East – have been converted to two ways. Historic Preservation • State Historic Tax Credit is approved and used to date for the Gimaajii and the upcoming Old Fire House development • Historic credits have been used on the restoration of the Greysolon Plaza, Bridgeman Russell Building, and Alicia’s Place Apartments • Creation of Downtown Historic District Parking • City and GDC partner on study of Parking Management in Downtown • Revised Parking Commission to be recommended to Council Retail • Go Downtown Grow Downtown, the Great Space Giveaway produces three new downtown retail businesses • Growing Neighborhood Businesses program developed by the Entrepreneur Fund as a part of the City/ Duluth LISC Duluth At Work initiative to support small businesses Events • Eat Downtown -- Duluth Restaurant Week • Weekly Farmers Market downtown • Movies in the Park • LakeWalk Festival in early September • Bayfront Festival Park offers events throughout the summer into fall • HillFest event in September that celebrates the Arts • Homegrown Music Festival held in early May with live music at venues throughout downtown and other neighborhoods • Juneteenth Event at the Central Hillside Community Center • LISC/At Home in Duluth Connecting the Dots Event -- Nov. 5th will be the Fifth Annual showcase of progress in implementation of neighborhood plans and celebration of neighborhood heroes (This covers five Duluth core neighborhoods) 64
Appendix B: Progress Advisory Panel Biographical Profiles Ken Stapleton Ken Stapleton & Associates President With over 27 years of urban revitalization and economic development experience, Ken provides program strategy and project management services related to university-community partnerships, innovative urban safety programs, and urban redevelopment to a variety of public and private clients including Mercer University, the Ohio Board of Regents, and Florida International University. Team Leader Progress Advisory Panel Previously, Ken served as Senior Economic Development Advisor and Executive Director of the award-winning University Park Alliance for The University of Akron; Senior Vice President of Planning, Safety and Design for the Downtown Cleveland Partnership; and as a redevelopment expert in several South Florida communities. Ken holds a master’s degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Illinois. He is a Knight Community Building Fellow and part of the class that led the Duluth Charrette in 2005. Rick Hall Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. President Rick Hall is a practicing, registered transportation engineer and for 14 years, President of Hall Planning & Engineering, Inc. He is registered in 13 states and is committed to understanding the established neighborhood vision and context before transportation design is undertaken. Since becoming a consultant in 1980, Mr. Hall has worked on a variety of projects including Urban Transportation Plans, Developments of Regional Impact, hurricane evacuation planning, level of service analysis, scenic highway planning and Transportation / Land Use interrelationships. Mr. Hall assisted in the planning of Seaside and has participated in over 75 TND charrettes with Dover Kohl & Partners, DPZ and other leading firms performing New Urbanism designs. He is a Knight Community Building Fellow and a member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) and was part of a team that authored a joint ITE-CNU Street Design Manual. He has served as a visiting professor at Florida State University’s Department of Urban and Regional Planning has also served as President of the Florida Section, Institute of Transportation Engineers. 65
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