Leadership Education and Arts Development Conference

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Leadership Education and Arts Development
Conference

• Tulsa, April 6th Oklahoma City, April 7th

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Setting the Stage in Michigan

• State of the Nation
• 9/11
• War in Afganistan
• War in Iraq
• Economic decline

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Setting the Stage in Michigan
Economy based on shipping, logging, mining,
and automotive manufacturing
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Setting the Stage in Michigan

• Severe loss of manufacturing base
• 2003 Budget deficit - 1 billion
• Increasing unemployment
• Brain drain loss of 43,000

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Setting the Stage in Michigan

• Regional issues
• DARTA
• Benton Harbor Disturbance
• Two cities in receivership
• Early retirement
• Loss of 9,000 state workers
• Replacement 14 ratio
• Loss of institutional knowledge

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Challenges for Governor Jennifer M. Granholm

• First female Governor (D)
• Legislature Republican (R) majority
• Following 12 years of (R)
  leadership
• New term limits-loss of institutional legislative
  knowledge

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Challenges for the Governor

• Loss of 9,000 state workers
• Employee concessions
• Strained union negotiations
• Major budget cuts
• Arts and culture (50 cut)
• Higher Education
• State shared revenue

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Taking Charge - Leadership

• Public acknowledgement of challenges
• Inclusivity
• Collaborations
• Town Hall meetings
• Prioritizing
• Commitment

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Cool Cities Initiative - Background

• Dr. Richard Florida, Rise of the Creative Class
• 2003 Mackinaw Conference
• 2003 Governor letter to Mayors form Local Cool
  City Advisory Groups
• City Survey

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Cool Cities Initiative - Background

• 2003 MCACA Conference with Dr. Richard
  Florida and Bill Strickland
• Cool Cities survey launched
• Governor rallies her Cabinet
• Cool Cities Coordinating Team formed
• Governor announces grant program

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Cool Cities Initiative - Description

• Logic Model discussions
• Focus turned to creating grant program
• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program launched April 2004
• Selected 20 Cool City Neighborhood Award
  Designees June 2004

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Cool Cities Initiative - Description

• www.coolcities.com launched
• Created Department Champion and State
  Neighborhood Champion
• State Resource Fair, August 2004
• Focus back to Logic Model

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Cool Cities Initiative - Description

• Cool Cities Initiative Strategic Plan
• Market Research
• Development Friendly
• Education and Outreach
• Coordinated Community Investor
• Grants Planning Programs
• Resource Toolbox

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Cool Cities Initiative - Description
Mission Statement Revitalize Michigans cities
by attracting the jobs and talents of the
emerging economy.
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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• CCI organization
• One dedicated staff

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• CCI organization
• One Manager

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Key committee activities
• LCCAG Guidebook
• Community assessments
• T.I.D.E.
• Young knowledge workers focus / high tech /
  nano tech

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• CCI catalyst for other initiatives and a model
  for the collaborative approach
• Cool Schools Initiative
• E-grants
• Cultural Economic Development Strategic Plan

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• CCI catalyst for other initiatives and a model
  for the collaborative approach
• Office of Community and Faith Based Initiative
• Legislative Urban Caucus
• Internship program www.michigan.gov/miintern

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Funding (leverage, partnerships)
• Metrics and Measures
• Role of nonprofits (9 of 19)
• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program
• Criteria
• Neighborhood definition
• Catalyst Grant eligible activities

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Alpena pedestrian-orientated walkway through
  downtown on both sides of the river
• Bay City creation of Waterfall Park
• Detroit renovation of Shed 2 allows 50
  additional vendors and establishes the Eastern
  Market neighborhood as a link to the riverfront
  and downtown

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Detroit redevelop three dilapidated buildings
  into Entertainment and Technology Incubators
  containing 28 residential loft apartments, a TV
  production studio, and a number of retail and
  food service establishments

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Detroit renovation of the Odd Fellows Hall
  located in the heart of the Springwells
  neighborhood which will become a key anchor in
  this multicultural area
• Ferndale expand the DDAs BUILD Program, which
  offers a 20 percent reimbursement for exterior
  building improvements to downtown
• Flint restoration of the exterior of the
  Republic Bank Building which will become First
  Street Lofts, a 16-unit loft development

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Grand Rapids historic renovation, streetscape
  improvements along with the creation of public
  art, murals, and the development of 35 loft
  apartments
• Grand Rapids new retail development utilizing
  green technology that is compatible with historic
  district standards a façade improvement program
  for historic commercial structures and a
  wayfinding design program to increase walkability
  of the area

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Jackson redevelopment of an abandoned
  industrial site into a center for the arts and
  culture, including 39 affordable loft apartments

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Kalamazoo relocation of the Smartshop, a unique
  metalworking school, gallery, and sculpture
  garden to a new location on the citys north side
• Marquette the Commons Project will consist of a
  groomed, refrigerated ice plaza with a skating
  rink, warming house, a non-motorized trail and a
  fountain located near the heart of the city on
  the site of an old parking lot and railroad
  trestle

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Port Huron conversion of the Relic Building
  into an Art Incubator for artists

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Portland creation of a boardwalk that will
  connect the pedestrian bridge over the confluence
  of the Grand and Looking Glass Rivers and will
  run along the back of the commercial buildings

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Saginaw redevelopment of two currently vacant
  buildings into first-floor commercial and
  second-floor residential

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Saugatuck renovation of the old Pie Factory
  into the Saugatuck Center for the Arts
• Sault Ste. Marie restoration and renovation of
  the classic and historic Soo Theatre Complex to
  its original grandeur of the 1930s, including
  loft apartments, community room, and studio space

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Warren City Square, a two-acre urban park with a
  fountain in the warmer months and an ice rink in
  the winter, bounded by the new City Hall/Library,
  high-density residential and commercial retail,
  and childcare center

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2004 Cool City Pilot Program Neighborhood Award
  Designees

• Ypsilanti improvements to the Riverside Arts
  Center and to partner with DTE to expand the
  project which will involve the reutilization of
  a vacant office structure for retail gallery,
  studio, office and theater set construction and
  other Arts Center uses

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Alpena This project has been very important
  and beneficial to our community. It has locally
  energized a number of groups to work together on
  activities not previously undertaken overall,
  Cool Cities is a very interesting concept and
  this designation and process can be expanded and
  utilized by a community well beyond the lifespan
  of the actual program.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Detroit-Jefferson East Business Association
  The Cool City project is an important step in
  fiscal responsibility and sustainable land use by
  focusing on existing infrastructure as well as
  honoring the character and history of our cities
  and neighborhoods.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Ferndale Its not about the money that has
  made this successful, it has really been about
  the awareness that this has brought to our
  community and the resources the state is
  offering.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Jackson Thank you! Designation as a Cool City
  neighborhood has drastically changed the working
  relationship between State government and the
  local community for the better, in that it has
  built our capacity to take responsibility for our
  future with enormous State cooperation,
  communication, and encouragement.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Sault Ste. Marie The Cool City Neighborhood
  Award Designation created a renaissance type
  feeling among the community. We are embracing
  our arts and cultural community to help drive
  economic development in our downtown. The Soo
  Theatre, one of the key components for driving
  our downtown revitalization, wouldnt have been
  feasible without the designation.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Ypsilanti This program has provided our
  community with valuable and immeasurable
  affirmation for the years of goal setting and
  dreaming of how this city and its downtown can be
  reframed for the future. In a short time, weve
  seen the level and quality of investor inquiries
  increase and weve seen people in and outside of
  our area begin to take more serious notice of who
  we are and where we are headed as a community.
  It has set the standard for the work that remains
  in our future

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• Ypsilanti (continued) Perhaps more
  importantly, it has caused the people that call
  this neighborhood and City home to come
  together more passionately, to take
  responsibility for being part of making a
  difference, and to take more pride in this city.
  And finally, it has blessed us with credibility
  for the arts community that we are determined to
  create at the Riverside Arts Center this will
  spur a growth in support and participation for
  arts and cultural endeavors in the heart of our
  downtown neighborhood and create in Ypsilanti a
  very cool place indeed.

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2005 Cool Cities Grants Planning Programs
• Capitalize on the buzz of Award Designation
• Expanded program with less money

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Key Elements Whats Most Helpful

• 2005 Cool Cities Grants Planning Programs
• Main Street, Blueprints for Downtowns, Blueprints
  for Neighborhoods, Neighborhoods in Progress
• Focused Catalyst Grant on larger urban centers

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How Do We Know It Works?

• CreateDetroit formed nonprofit,
  www.createdetroit.com
• 150 Local Cool City Advisory Groups
• Cool Cities buzz
• Malcolm Gladwell The Tipping Point Berlin
  Wall example

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How Do We Know It Works?

• Year End Report from projects
• 500 jobs retained
• 400 new jobs created
• 68 new businesses
• 5 business expansions

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How Do We Know It Works?

• Year End Report from projects
• 63 million of local public investment
• 109 million of state investment
• 174 million of private investment
• TOTAL 350 million

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How Do We Know It Works?

• Appropriations
• (R) majority
• Campaign initiating
• Price of Government prioritizing services
• No discussion on proposed CCI budget

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How Do We Know It Works?

• Idea resonated with folks, the time is now
• Detroit SuperBowl I am Detroit!

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Shameless plug
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IMAGE
Whether its the Rust Belt image
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Or the Dust Bowl image
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