Business Retention and Development Committee Minutes 2007 08 06

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City Council Business Retention & Development Committee Meeting Minutes August 6,2007 Page 2 of 3 Members were supportive of such a use of the assistance policy. Yarnell noted one way or another, assistance is getting passed through to the tenant. Lathrop added that it is set up so that a developer and a tenant can't "double dip" and both receive assistance. SHOP LOUISVILLE UPDATE Muth reported that members of the subcommittee would be meeting later that same day to choose a logo for the program. Subcommittee members will also meet with the contractor to discuss next steps in the marketing campaign prior to the next BRaD meeting. MAIN STREET BRAINSTORMING Lathrop noted that he had requested this as an agenda item as a way to start the discussion of what downtown needs to be viable and to make it a d tination area. He noted that in his travels he has seen many pedestrian-oriented down wns with restaurants and outdoor seating that have a great feel to them. He as members their thoughts on how best to help downtown. Members discussed possible ideas for downtown but the location of the rail station and extent of the railroad right-o -w . determined, it is unreasonable to talk about changes for downtow ch of how downtown will look in the future will be determined by the decisions m TD. Members would like to revisit the conversation after that determination i RETENTION VISIT UPDATE . ITEA (Marsella/Hogan) - Hogan reported on this visit noting the company is currently moving to a new space in Louisvil he company reported that the Planning process for the move went very the company's perspective. . Lockheed Martin - Coherent Te ies (Brown/Dalton) - Brown and Dalton reported that the visit went very we. he company is possibly looking to move a facility from Lafayette t isville. Brown asked Hogan to contact the company about possible assist e company also noted that the Planning process had been difficult in their I nsion (5-7 years ago) and that they are currently bringing a new expansio rough the process. The company added a couple of items of con them would be power outages from Public Service Company and better c ation with the City in snow emergencies. . Albertson's (Y Lathrop) - Lathrop and Yarnell reported that the visit went well and as far as the nager knows, Albertson's has no plans to close the store. In e new manager would like to make upgrades to store as much as Albertson's ffice will allow funding for. The only item of concern was a request for signage on McCaslin Boulevard to direct traffic to the store. WEB SITE UPDATE Muth reported that the BRaD site is now up and running on the City's web server. Members gave staff direction continue work on search engine optimization. DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITY UPDATE Hogan gave a brief update on her development activities for the month.