1. Downtown Revitalization Plan Update
DRAFT Recommendations | Action Plan
April 10, 2013
SAA Design Group SB Friedman Development Advisors

2. Framework for Recommendations (Goals)
Foster stakeholder ownership in plan and in implementation
Focus on 5-year targets
Expand market vision
Solidify organizational & management structure and capacity
Identify development opportunities

3. Re-stated Vision
DeKalb City Center will be a regional destination for culture, learning, dining and entertainment, joined with a world class university and surrounded by well connected, desirable neighborhoods.

4. Strategies
Treat DeKalb City Center as a business that needs a structure for management, operations and promotion.
Leverage student demographic to increase student use of City Center by improving access and connectivity between City Center and the NIU campus.
Animate City Center with improved visitor communications, continued aesthetic refinement and event programming.
Direct TIF investment towards traffic generators with catalytic economic potential.
Facilitate residential development and redevelopment in the underutilized lands adjoining the retail core of City Center and in adjoining neighborhoods.
Broaden the engagement of the city and regional businesses and institutions in the strengthening of the City Center.

5. Project Management Team

6. Downtown Shuttle

7. Expand Bicycle Sharrow Network

8. Realign West Locust Street

9. Identify and Address Parking Need

10. Develop Outdoor Public Event Space

11. Develop Outdoor Public Event Space

12. West Lincoln Highway Streetscape

13. Broaden City Center Reach/Draw

14. Update Unified Development Ordinance
Proposed Land Use Plan
Concept sketch – City Hall Annex

15. “Communiversity Commons”

16. Urban Business Incubator

17. Summary

18. Summary

19. Summary

20. Next Steps Develop implementation strategy and prepare plan report
Vet plan with incoming leadership
Deliver plan to city for adoption