Port Riverwalk

 

Community Input Needed:
Shaping the future of the Port Riverwalk
 Redevelopment Site

Coon Rapids residents, businesses, and community stakeholders are invited to shape the future of development for the Port Riverwalk site situated along Coon Rapids Boulevard between Egret Boulevard and Avocet Street. Each of the four workshops will build on the information that will result in recommendations for the redevelopment of the Port Riverwalk site to be submitted to the Coon Rapids City Council, Planning Commission, and Housing and Redevelopment Authority.

The Corridor Housing Initiative (CHI) is a nationally award winning community engagement process designed to help cities, neighborhoods, and developers proactively plan development along major corridors. The CHI process provides a technical team of design experts, development consultants, and facilitators to explore development options with community stakeholders. The heart of the process involves an interactive exercise that gives participants a hands-on opportunity to consider different development scenarios on identified opportunity sites, and determine whether the projects would be financially viable.

The Port Riverwalk CHI community workshops series will be at Coon Rapids City Center and include:

Workshop I: Gathering Information
Tuesday, June 24, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Learn about future opportunities for the Port Riverwalk redevelopment site and share ideas and concerns about what you would like to achieve through development.

Watch video of this meeting.

Workshop II: Development ABC’s - Block Exercise
Tuesday, July 8, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
An interactive workshop to create feasible development scenarios for the redevelopment site. Design and development experts will share ideas and insights.

Watch video of this meeting.

Workshop III: Panel Discussion – Market Feasibility
Tuesday, July 29, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Explore the opportunities and challenges of redevelopment with a panel of developers, commercial brokers, and city representatives to build a strategic road map for redevelopment.

Workshop IV: Build Consensus for Development Objectives
Tuesday, August 26, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Contribute to the creation of development recommendations for the Port Riverwalk redevelopment site.

All events are free and open to the public. To arrange for child care, contact Gretchen Nicholls, Twin Cities LISC, at 651-265-2280 or gnicholls@lisc.org one week in advance of each workshop.

bulletThe CHI technical team for the Port Riverwalk project includes:
bulletTwin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation – project coordinator
bulletMetropolitan Design Center, University of Minnesota College of Design – design expert
bulletCuningham Architecture Group – site planning
bulletCenter for Policy Planning and Performance – facilitation, community outreach consultant, and evaluation
bulletAeon – financial analysis and development consultant
bulletMaxfield Consulants – market analysis

For more information, contact Marc Nevinski or Matt Brown at 763-767-6430 or send an email to the Port Riverwalk email box.  More information available at www.housinginitiative.org.

Please join us in this interactive and innovative process with the Corridor Housing Initiative to help shape the future of our city. We want to hear from you!

 

 

 

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