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Monday, August 3rd at 7:00pm
Located at the City of De Pere Council Chambers
335 S. Broadway
Be heard! RDG is hosting a community goals and issues workshop, inviting the public to participate in round-table discussions with their peers to share aspirations for Downtown De Pere.
Downtown Steering Committee Meeting
August 3, 2009
City Hall – Council Chambers
1) Chris Brewer from ERA presented some initial findings from their economic analysis.
a)Housing around the immediate downtown area is comparable to Green Bay’s amount of downtown housing.
b) Housing stock can increase in value; De Pere is below the mean value for housing.
c) Mean income for De Pere is higher than Green Bay area and overall very affluent.
d) Initial results from the downtown business inventory shows that vacancy is very low, and showed some initial numbers for retail categories for both the East and West side of the river.
2) Cory Scott from RDG shared some results from the online community survey. The survey asked questions about rating the downtown, and future actions for the city to take. On a scale of 1-5 with 1 being poor and 5 being good, all responses were at a 3 or 4 for the City of De Pere. The old bridge landing was also a question included in the survey. The majority of the responses said the bridge landing should be a combination of development and open space that preserves views of the river. Next being kept entirely open and lastly that it be developed with a revenue-producing use.
3) RDG provided a handout of some of the findings from the focus groups from their last visit; and discussed some of the ideas presented.
4) Next steering committee meeting will be held September 14 at 5:15pm.
5) Adjourn
a) Meeting adjourned at 6:45pm.