The idea was to have a group of people look at Renaissance Zone proposals before going to Council for approval. Steve stated these things work well if there is a structure and budget set up, but what he sensed from the Council, there was no urge to do that. Eliot stated, at this point, there is an approved Renaissance Zone Authority. Another aspect of downtown is an arts and cultural district. There will be a fair amount of public art, some of which will be rotating.
Downtown also has the preponderance of historical buildings.
There are some programming and aspects of the cultural district that need attention. Cindy stated she felt, with the historic sites, as time goes on, many of these people from other parts of the country that helped us will want to come back and see how we are doing. Mike stated there was work to be done in terms of coordination of partnerships such as East Grand Forks and the Greenway. The Riverforks Authority is most likely to go out of existence. We also need to coordinate a transportation or bus link with UND to make it possible for students to come downtown and not worry about parking.