First Directions: Downtown Development Action Plan

Next Steps

Implementing a strategy for downtown revitalization will require support from the City and its agencies and from the senior levels of government, from the business community, and from residents of the St. Louis region. This range of small, medium and large size projects must be coordinated in a strategic fashion to achieve the long-term vision for Downtown. This report presents our first directions in setting out the key opportunities and direction for downtown revitalization.

To continue these "First Directions," the study team will provide numerous opportunities for the public and stakeholders to provide input into this preliminary strategy. The consultant team will then test alternative scenarios within this strategy for achieving downtown development, examining and amending this list of possible actions in much finer detail. Each alternative will draw upon the Big Ideas and action strategy to identify an effective coordinated and synergistic mix of action to make up a Downtown St. Louis Action Plan.

In early fall, the study team will conduct a series of workshops and public meetings to present these alternatives, assess their strengths and weaknesses, and choose a preferred development scenario. This preferred scenario will be the basis of the detailed downtown plan to be completed toward the end of this year.

The downtown redevelopment strategy is still in its initial stages, and substantive participation, suggestions, criticism and bold new ideas will be enthusiastically received. We are eager to hear your reactions:

• at the first Public Workshop on June 2, 1998;
• at a second Public Workshop scheduled for early summer; and
• at two other Public Workshops scheduled for early and late fall, 1998.

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Downtown Now!
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e-mail:amyr@downtownnow.org
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City of St. Louis
622-3400
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