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lzilziar rxt 14:18 r'AX 9 0 4-MA INSTREET 2006 • TBG assisted in three significant planningProcesses in recent years: City of Hopkins - Strategic Plan for Economic Development. I was originally involved in this project in 1992 with a 12-member strategic planning task force. The process took approximately six months and was updated two years ago. As a result of that effort, the City identified, and is in the process of implementing specific action plans to accomplish issues -- business retention and recruitment, neighborhood development, development of County Road #3/Excelsior Blvd., Mainstreet development, and improvement of the City's image. The process has produced solid results. Recently completed is a six-screen movie theater and restaurant complex on Mainstreet. Across the street a $4.2 million performing arts theater is under construction and is expected to open in the fall of. 1997. And, currently, in the final design stages with construction expected to begin this fall, the west half of Excelsior Blvd. will be completely rebuilt as a major corridor through the City with creative urban design concepts included. CA o. Elk River - _ e 'c Plan f•r Economic D•velo.mei . This recent plan resulted in the development of a Mission Statement (attached). Also included is the chart outlining those institutions that participated in the process and the major goals and issues that were identified by the Strategic Planning Task Force. Results from this process include major rezonings of properties to expand the City's industrial base and proposals to re-invest and develop Elk River's central business district utilizing the Mississippi corridor as a main attraction. There is a major effort by the Elk River Chamber of Commerce to deal with • business retention and growth. St. Louis Park - Community-Wide Visionin Process. I chaired a Steering Committee of 37 members to develop "Vision St.Louis Park". The effort was to initiate a Strategic Planning process designed to challenge the public and private sectors to cooperatively envision the comrrnmity's preferred future. Through the efforts of the Steering Committee, eight major areas were identified to become the focus of community efforts for the next 5-15 years. Those areas were then examined by eight separate Task Forces consisting of 20-30 members each who were asked to identify expected results of the process and bow performance would be measured. The results were included in a document which was sent to 14,000 households in St. Louis Park The Management Committee recently established an Outcomes Committee which is in the process of developing performance measurements to determine whether or not the City is meeting the vision. • •