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C
We
also
have
three
members
of
the
board
with
us
today:
councilman
gray,
matt
anderson
and
chris
johansson
are
all
your
representatives
on
the
board
and
so
I'd
like
to
very
quickly
walk
you
through
what
we've
been
doing,
where
we
hope
to
be
going
and
every
is
going
to
help
up
with
it
as
well.
As
you
know,
we're
a
501,
C
3
corporation,
founded
through
your
initiative
in
1999.
C
We
have
a
28
agreement
with
you
that
has
been
amended
a
number
of
times
it's
up
for
renewal
next
year,
and
we
also
now
have
a
very
small
2080
agreement
with
polk
county.
That
also
is
up
for
renewal
next
year.
Our
mission
is
to
enhance
neighborhoods
and
combat
community
deterioration
through
redevelopment.
We
try
to
act
as
a
catalyst
for
private
sector
investment
in
neighborhoods,
and
our
mandate
includes
Polk
County,
but
all
of
our
development
work
has
been
in
the
City
of
Des
Moines,
largely
because
of
your
2080
agreement.
So
thank
you
very
much
for
that.
C
We
act
as
a
catalyst
for
neighborhood
revitalization
by
investing
in
neighborhoods,
where
the
private
sector
is
inactive.
We
have
worked
with
historic
buildings
that
require
renovation
and
repurposing
more
difficult
projects
or
riskier.
We
work
with
sites
that
are
difficult
to
develop
the
environmentally
contaminated
sites
just
over
the
bridge
on
Indianola
from
the
ball
park,
are
examples
of
that
and
more
and
more
we're
introducing
new
forms
of
urban
development
in
fill
mixed
use
to
the
neighborhoods.
That's
likely
to
continue
Abby's
going
to
run
you
through
the
projects.
D
All
right
good
morning,
I
wanted
to
run
through
the
project.
Some
of
these
will
be
familiar
to
you
as
their
projects.
We
have
done
really
over
the
last
decade.
Here
we
started
a
lot
of
our
work
out
on
sixth
Avenue.
We
started
with
two
historic
renovations
out
there
we
had
temple
building,
which
was
a
mixed-use
some
office
space
and
apartments
above
and
then
the
weary
building
is
at
6:00
in
college,
and
that
was
some
office
based
impact
is
in
there.
D
The
next
page
shows
East
Grand.
We
took
a
solid
block
of
land
there
and
social
picked
up
in
pieces
over
a
couple
of
years
and
redeveloped
that
entire
stretch,
just
east
of
the
Capitol
I've
gotten
different
uses
in
there's
retail,
there's
restaurants
grocery
they
do
very
well
there,
a
lot
of
traffic
from
the
State
Capitol
and
such
visiting
those
shops,
which
is
really
nice
and
then
sevastopol
station,
is
our
southeast
six
project.
This
is
about
the
time
that
I
joined
in
DC.
D
That
was
the
project
we
worked
on
at
the
time
about
these
fixing
Hartford
is
a
mixed-use
about
twelve
apartments
upstairs
and
then
some
retail
restaurant
office
below
sub-projects
proven
to
do
well
for
us
as
well.
The
next
one
is
Madison
flats
and
Jackson
crossing.
These
two
projects
are
just
over
the
bridge
from
principal
Park,
Indianola,
Avenue
kind
of
that
gateway
into
South
de
Moines
and
Madison
flats
was
acre
and
a
half
of
city-owned
land
highly
contaminated
struggled
to
be
developed
a
couple
of
different
times.
D
Just
due
to
the
contamination,
it
was
awarded
brownfield
tax
credits
which
allowed
us
to
go
in
and
remove
that
dirt
and
do
the
project
there.
It's
full
housing
project,
it
was
stabilized
filled
before
we
were
finished
with
construction
and
then
sold
off
to
private
investor.
Here
in
Des,
Moines,
Jackson
Crossing
same
thing.
D
We
sold
that
land
to
private
investors
here
in
Des,
Moines
versus
Newton
County,
put
together
a
group,
so
that
was
these
two
projects
are
great
examples
of
what
our
model
is
trying
to
do,
where
we're
trying
to
be
the
catalyst
for
private
development,
but
if
we
can
bring
them
in
on
the
front
end
and
use
their
funds
to
make
a
much
larger
impact
into
projects.
We
try
to
do
that.
So
two
good
examples
of
developments
that
went
very
well
and
really
created
a
new
node,
a
new
neighborhood
and
in
Des
Moines.
D
The
next
one
would
be
Southwest
9th
we've
been
on
that
corridor
planned
the
front
of
Southwest
9th
group,
those
sorts
of
things
for
over
a
couple
of
years
now
and
the
feedback
from
the
neighborhood
is
they'd
like
to
see
three
properties
be
redeveloped,
and
so
we
focus
really
on
those
three.
It
was
a
vacant
lot
and
then
we
had
really
an
abandoned
blinded
building
just
north
of
the
high
school
and
then
also
across
the
street
from
the
high
school
Lincoln.
D
High
School
is
what
I'm
referring
to
same
thing
just
abandoned
building,
and
we
were
able
to
redevelop
all
three
of
those
profits
projects
over
the
last
18
24
months.
So
those
have
gone
really
well.
They're,
leasing
up
the
two
properties
to
the
north
are
residential
and
then
the
one
at
the
South
that
2619
across
from
Lincoln
is
100%
commercial.
So
we're
just
nearing
completion
on
that
and
starting
from
leasing
action.
D
D
Currently,
we
are
working
on
Forest
Avenue
if
you've
been
by
forty
or
force
in
thirty.
Second
we're
doing
some
student
housing.
It's
not
student
housing
actually
has
some
just
market
residents
leased
up
as
well
so
really
open
to
anybody,
but
we've
had
some
students
leasing.
Here
too,
we
should
be
a
finishing
construction
towards
the
end
of
July,
so
students
can
move
in
in
August.
Leasing
is
going
really
well
they're
already
without
a
senior
completion,
so
three
smaller
scale
buildings
to
help
fit
into
the
neighborhood.
D
We
worked
with
the
neighborhood,
probably
over
six
months,
several
meetings
to
try
and
get
to
this.
If
ideal,
that
would
work
for
them
as
well.
It
started
as
a
four-story
building.
It
just
wasn't
quite
the
fit.
They
were
looking
for
so
successful
project
in
that
we
were
able
to
come
to
an
agreement
with
the
neighborhood
and
make
something
that
could
have
fits
in
with
the
source
of
the
Drake
neighborhood
into
a
scale
that
was
appealing.
So
that
was
a
success
there.
How.
B
D
Within
over
three
buildings,
so
they're
just
two
story:
buildings
that
site
was
kind
of
an
odd
shape.
So
we
had
to
make
a
few
different
buildings
to
make
it
work
streetcar
row.
This
is
a
project
at
Crocker
19th
across
from
Smokey
Row.
We
bought
this
from
the
church
pastor
across
the
street.
It's
about
an
acre
sized
lot.
The
old
Planned
Parenthood
buildings
on
it
now.
D
D
As
far
as
a
summary-
oh,
this
is
summarized
really
on
the
next
page,
but
we
have
about
57
million
dollars
of
development
over
the
last
two
two
and
a
half
years
between
Jackson
Crossing,
Mary,
Todd,
McCray,
Terrace,
a
Southwest,
9th
retail,
Forest,
Avenue
and
streetcars.
So
a
total
of
really
just
341
units,
4,500
square
foot
of
commercial
and
57
million
so
same
about
Jackson
crossing
project.
I.
D
Think
I
bought
two
acres
from
the
city
there
as
well,
so
we've
been
able
to
leverage
our
million
dollars,
obviously
very
well
over
the
last
couple
of
years,
and
even
getting
some
city-owned
land
off
of
off
of
your
plate
as
well
and
changing
that
into
test
generating
land.
So
overall,
last
couple
of
years
have
been
very
successful
and
we
plan
to
continue
so
I'll.
Let
Glenn
talk
about
our
community
participation
thanks.
C
Abby
we
volunteer
on
a
number
of
local
boards,
it's
part
of
an
effort
to
assist
in
neighborhood
revitalization
when
we're
involved
in
those
areas
and
to
really
be
a
good
neighbor
as
we
develop
properties.
I
sit
on
four
different
boards,
two
of
them,
the
ingersoll
and
grand
Smith,
and
the
Friends
of
Southwest
9th
are
directly
related
to
your
revitalization.
Efforts
on
inner
city,
commercial
strips
Abby,
sits
on
three
boards.
The
Des
Moines,
South
and
East
Chamber
is
a
similar
type
of
role,
and
she
also
is
the
vice
president
of
your
Economic
Development
Corporation.
C
C
We
are
now
working
with
mainstream
living
to
look
at
how
their
buildings
can
be
repurposed
on
South,
Union
and
McKinley.
When
they're
sold
we've
been
working
with
Drake
University
to
help
them
develop
their
land,
south
of
University,
Avenue
and
Abbey's,
working
with
the
owners
of
the
Griffin
Flynn
building
on
a
renovation
that
should
convert
it
to
mix
juice.
What's.
C
The
University
consulting
job
is
probably
the
most
exciting
for
us
University.
Well,
we
had
been
approaching
University
for
years,
but
they,
the
new
president,
agreed
to
work
with
us
on
a
concept
plan
to
develop
or
preserve,
in
this
case
of
some
most
of
the
historic
houses.
These
locks
to
create
an
urban
neighborhood
more
like
an
East
Village
on
University,
so
that
the
neighborhood
could
be
more
attractive
to
people
wanting
to
visit,
sorry
to
attend,
Drake,
the
family's
alumni,
etc,
and
we've
been
working
with
the
University
and
the
Neighborhood
Association
on
that.
C
Out
of
that
has
come
a
proposal
call
that
we
were
asked
to
help
with
four
blocks
a
and
B
which
are
right
across
from
Old
Main.
One
is
a
grass
lot
next
to
the
church.
The
other
is
parking
and
down
the
road.
If
that
RFP
is
successful,
we'll
be
working
with
University
on
the
big
parking
lot,
which
is
a
lot
B.
The
first
project
sorry
involves
Nelson
developments.
We
ran
an
RFP,
they
won
the
competition.
If
there's
a
Memorandum
of
Understanding
that's
been
signed,
we
are
two
signatures
away
from
the
development
agreement.
C
I've
been
saying
that
for
about
three
months,
but
you
know
what
takes
to
get
a
development
agreement
signed
on
what
now
is
a
50
million
in
settlement,
the
what
smaller
block
has
a
100
room,
boutique
hotel
planned
and
the
block
to
the
west,
where
the
parking
is
is
about
a
hundred
units
of
general
population
housing,
not
student-oriented,
with
restaurants
of
gray.
If
that
happens,
it's
a
fifty
million
dollar
investment
on
land
that
currently
isn't
taxed
in
the
city
and
a
big
plus
for
the
neighborhood,
and
it
should
set
up
the
development
on
that
block
D.
C
What's
next
we're
working
on
any
East
Side
project
and
it's
hard
to
do
market
housing
on
the
east
side
and
we
keep
trying
and
we'll
we'll
find
a
spot.
We
we've
talked
to
a
number
of
developers
about
building
their,
but
the
key
is
to
do
a
market
housing
project.
If
it's
on
Hubbell
with
a
commercial
component,
we
haven't
given
up
yet,
but
it
takes
a
lot
of
work.
We
also
own
a
little
bit
of
land
at
University
in
23rd
next
to
the
come
and
go.
C
C
So
there
may
be
a
role
for
us
to
try
to
find
that
middle
path.
So
we're
looking
at
that,
we
may
leave
it
for
people
who
are
in
that
business
to
do
if,
if
they
know,
if
they
find
ways
to
hit
that
middle
and
also
infill
housing,
your
inner-city
neighborhoods
shouldn't
just
be
full
of
new
rental
apartments.
C
Some
of
that
investment
has
to
be
in
ownership
housing,
whether
they're
30
foot,
lot
infill
single-family
homes
or
the
townhouses
that
we're
starting
to
do
some
work
on
that
investment
is
key
to
revitalizing
some
of
those
neighborhoods,
and
so
we're
hoping
to
do
more
of
that.
But
once
again
you
have
to
find
a
way
to
make
it
work
in
the
market
place.
That
concludes
our
presentation.
Mr.
mayor,
we're
happy
to.
E
Know
you
just
kind
of
you
touched
on
it
and
but
you
went
quickly
over
it.
I
just
want
to
underscore
the
role
when
that
you
play
with
as
chair
of
Southwest,
ninth
and
getting
helping
us
gets
us
mid
put
together,
you
were
really
an
integral
part
and
I
think
that's
one
thing
that
between
you
and
addy,
you
really
add
a
significant
amount
to
those
groups
that
are
working
to
pull
together
a
revitalization
plan
for
the
different
corridors.
E
C
When
we
get
into
these
situations,
where
the
neighborhood's
have
to
organize
themselves
in
ways
that
they
haven't
before,
particularly
when
it's
multiple
neighborhoods
in
the
commercial
community,
you
look
around
the
table
and
sometimes
were
the
only
ones.
Who've
had
an
experience
like
this,
but
our
other
responsibilities
after
a
year
or
two
is
to
turn
it
over
to
the
constituents
themselves
as
they
learn
how
the
organization
runs,
how
it
works
with
the
city
and
the
light,
because
it's
their
future
more
than
orange.
Thank
you
bill.
E
F
You
mayor
this
will
be
my
fourth
year
on
the
NDC
board
and
I
can't
tell
you
how
much
enjoyment
I've
had
having
planted
a
bee
on
there
and
a
bee
of
course
glad
to
have
you
back
being
on
control.
You
know,
NBC
does
something
that
we
can't
get
our
major
developers.
Do
they
go
into
areas
that
there's
probably
some
high
risk
Madison
flats,
you
know
economically?
F
Environmentally,
thank
you
for
coming
caught
right.
There
was
nobody
would
go
after
that,
Southwest
9th
you
went
through
and
took
some
dilapidated
properties
and
starting
to
turn
things
around.
There
developers
aren't
going
to
touch
that
we've
had
into
drake
area
that
32nd
forester
had
been
sitting
there
vacant
for
10
years,
so
what
they're
doing
is
infusing
some
good
things
into
the
community.
These
are
the
kind
of
things
that
we
really
need
to
have
and
I'm
proud
to
be.
F
G
I'm
Stephanie
brush
the
executive
director
of
Neighborhood
Finance
Corporation
I
provided
a
PowerPoint.
Some
of
the
information
in
it
is
just
for
you
to
have
so
you
have
some
of
those
numbers,
so
I
won't
go
over
those
in
great
detail.
But
if
you
have
any
questions,
please
stop
me
and
I
just
appreciate
the
opportunity
to
come
share
what
we're
doing
at
NSC.
We
have
a
couple
of
new
things
happening,
so
it's
a
great
time
to
be
here
just
as
a
reminder,
and
we
do.
G
Our
mission
is
to
revitalize
neighborhoods
and
we
do
that
through
our
lending.
Primarily,
we
have
a
purchase
every
Phineas
and
a
home-improvement
product,
and
we
use
the
20/80
money
that
we're
fortunate
enough
to
receive
from
the
city
in
the
county
for
subsidy
and
that's
in
the
form
of
a
ten
thousand
dollar
forgivable
loan
or
20
thousand.
If
people
are
buying
a
house,
that's
a
multi-family
and
bringing
it
back
to
single-family.
We
also
offer
some
money
for
clothes
e-classes
systems,
especially
for
lower
income
borrowers.
G
This
is
a
summary
of
our
lending,
but
I
have
a
page.
So
this
is
where
you
have
the
detail.
I
have
a
page
that
hits
some
of
these
highlights
that
I'll
just
go
ahead
to
so
they
see
we
did
222
borrowers
received
loans
in
2016
a
few
less
than
2015,
but
it's
a
good
number
for
us,
because
around
there
we
was
four
point:
seven
million
of
renovation
lending
is
what
it
led
to
the
lending
that
we
did.
G
G
Those
loans
were
done
in
38,
recognized,
neighborhoods
and
really
spread
throughout
the
city.
You
can
see.
23
is
the
most
loans
done
in
any
neighborhood
and
that's
the
Drake
neighborhood,
which
covers
a
large
geographic
area.
Union
Park
was
second
and
Highland.
Park
was
third.
Sixty-One
percent
of
our
loans
are
done
in
lower
moderate
income
census
tracts.
We
linden
all
the
low
and
moderate
income
census
tracts
of
des
moines,
as
well
as
the
neighborhoods
that
are
designated.
That
may
not
be
a
little
moderate
income
and
it's
for
any
income
for
borrowers.
G
G
Every
year
since
our
existence-
and
this
is
our
27th
year
and
that's
what
really
makes
it
happen
to
be
able
to
have
those
funds
that
we
can
use
this
subsidy
and
then
it's
not
tied
to
a
particular
income
for
people
that
are
higher
income
that
want
to
move
into
the
neighborhoods
where
we're
living
or
able
to
and
the
flexibility.
We
also
are
CDFI,
which
is
a
US
Treasury
designation
and
that
allows
us
access
to
funds
and
we
use
we've
received
five
million
dollars
over
the
past.
G
G
Yes,
being
the
NeighborWorks
organization
provides
us
professional
development
as
well
as
funding,
and
most
of
the
funding
that
we
get
from
them
is
also
recycled
money
as
many
that
we
recycle
it's
lending
capital.
So
I
wanted
to
share
our
newest
program,
which
is
called
our
front
porch
program,
and
this
was
in
response
to
the
Capitol
crossroads
that
came
out
and
in
there
it
says
there
needs
to
be
a
more
flexible
home
improvement
loan
program
in
the
neighborhoods
of
des
moines,
and
so
what
we
did
is
we
applied
for
the
CDFI
fund.
G
So
we
can
underwrite
these
loans.
People
can
have
a
lower
credit
score.
They
still
have
to
be
credit
worthy
because
we
never
want
to
give
a
loan
to
somebody
that
it
doesn't
appear
that
they
have
any
means
to
pay
it
back,
because
no
one
wants
that,
because
we
really
want
to
use
this
as
a
way
for
people
to
improve
their
credit,
but
also
it
provides
funds
for
exterior
repairs.
G
G
We
have
in
process
right
now
for
it,
and
then
this
is
like
a
pre
announcement,
because
we
haven't
done
a
press
release
on
it,
but
we
were
fortunate
because
we're
a
CDFI-
and
we
are
one
of
the
largest
nonprofit
lenders
in
the
country
to
receive
a
3.6
million
dollar
award
through
NeighborWorks.
It
wasn't
open
just
to
NeighborWorks
organizations,
and
this
will
be
for
downpayment
assistance
throughout
polk
county
we're
currently
meeting
with
our
lending
partners.
G
So
we're
not
lending
in
a
neighborhood,
but
one
of
our
lending
partners
is
then
they
can
so
people
outside
of
Des
Moines
will
be
able
to
access,
is
for
households
below
a
hundred
percent
of
the
median
income
which
is
about
seventy
thousand
for
a
family
of
four
will
be
meeting
with
Realtors
once
we're
ready
to
roll
it
out.
I.
Have
we
hiring
new
staff?
That's
starting
in
a
couple
of
weeks
and
we're
really
excited
about
the
ability
to
bring
this
just
to
put
it
in
perspective
I?
G
G
You
know
Los
Angeles,
so
for
us
to
have
the
same
per
capita
amount
as
them
is
pretty
amazing
and
I
think
it
will
have
a
real
impact
on
the
ability
of
people
to
access
housing
and
polk
county
in
the
next
couple
of
years,
and
I
want
to
talk
about
a
project
that
I
think
I
talked
about
when
I
was
here
last
time,
but
we
introduced
you
to
a
collaboration
with
community
housing
initiatives
to
try
to
identify
homes
in
the
vbe
spank.
Neighborhoods
purchased
those
and
renovate
them
and
sell
them
for
home
ownership.
G
One
thing
that
we
found
is
that
there
is
a
market
if
Glenn
mentioned
in
his
is
that
you
need
subsidy
to
do
it,
so
we
were
fortunate
to
receive
an
award
from
NeighborWorks
as
well
as
the
City
of
Des
Moines.
To
do
this
and
I
have
some
pictures
of
we
built
two
homes
without
any
subsidy
to
sort
of
kick
it
off,
and
then
these
are
the
first
three
home.
This
is
modest
homes.
G
The
first
one
on
Garfield
was
a
previously
a
rental
that
had
been
vacated
and
the
other
two
were
bank
foreclosures,
and
they
were
the
second
to
the
East.
Ninth
in
New
York
were
on
the
market
for
maybe
48
hours
Garfield.
It
took
a
couple
of
weeks,
so
there's
people
that
are
interested
in
living
in
homes
once
they're
renovated
and
that's
really
exciting
for
us
to
know
and
we've
seen
some
increase
in
prices,
but
they're
still
very
affordable
homes.
This
is
the
inside
of
the
one
on
East
Knight.
G
G
We've
been
working
on
that
getting
the
land
put
together,
but
we'll
be
breaking
land
soon
on
Idaho,
East,
Idaho
and
Washington
or
Idaho
any
flashing,
Tanana
Martin,
Luther,
King,
jr.,
Park,
neighbor
and
I
just
want
to
make
sure
everyone
knows
that
we're
having
an
event
in
the
Drake
neighborhood
to
celebrate
some
of
the
things
that
NBC
is
doing
as
well
as
our
we
have
a
home
that
was
featured
in
a
book.
We
were
featured
in
the
NeighborWorks
book
of
exemplary
organizations
that
are
doing
things
and
so
I
hope
that
you
all
can
come.
A
G
A
G
Columbus
Park,
so
we
do
some
targeted
mailings.
We
try
to
use
social
media
as
much
as
possible
and
then
every
six
months
we
have
a
homebuyer
education
event
that
we
partner
with
Evan
clay
Davis
to
bring
people
in
hoping
that
projects
reinvest
because
that
program
will
be
housed
with
us
will
really
let
a
lot
of
people
know
because
they'll
come
learning
about
the
down
payment
assistance
that
they'll
be
on
our
website.
So
we're
hoping
that
and
we
have
some
marketing
money.
It's
a
struggle
with
our
small
marketing,
but.
A
A
C
A
C
G
Than
we
have
it,
so
if
you
ever
want
to
increase
the
2080
agreement,
we
could
definitely
and
where
we
lend
in
Des
Moines
it's
just
that
restraint
that
we
have
to
always
keep
an
eye
on
that
we're
not
putting
out
more
money
that
we
can.
We
never
want
to
be
in
a
position
that
in
five
years
were
saying:
oh
my
gosh.
What
do
we
do?
The.
E
B
G
G
G
A
A
G
I
I
We
have
the
East
University,
East,
14th
and
East
Grand
corridors
all
go
through
these
three
neighborhoods
and
then
community
building
and
programming,
which
is
really
more
about
the
people
who
are
living
in
these
neighborhoods
and
supporting
them
through
events
that
connect
neighbors
with
one
another,
and
then
programs
that
serve
the
youth
in
the
area
focus
on
some
adult
education,
then
health
and
wellness
I
just
give
you
sort
of
the
headline
of
the
presentation.
In
2016
we
saw
another.
I
Almost
four
million
dollars
invested
into
just
these
three
neighborhoods,
and
that
brings
our
overall
total
two
dates
to
a
little
over
thirteen
point:
two
million:
that's
a
pretty
significant
investment
that
we've
had
in
a
very
short
amount
of
time.
So
that's
really
exciting
for
us
and
I'll
go
through
each
of
the
priority
areas
just
very
briefly
and
give
you
a
sense
of
of
what
we've
done
and
under
housing
we
have.
I
We
still
are
seeing
issues
with
the
rental
property
conditions
in
the
neighborhood,
specifically
in
capital.
Park
Capital
Park
is
more
than
50%
renter
occupied
in
terms
of
its
housing
units.
Also
contract
sales
are
a
lot
of
contract
sales
in
these
three
neighborhoods
and
then
just
generally
kind
of
deferred
maintenance.
So,
and
you
know,
this
is
one
of
those
areas
where
the
change
is
going
to
be
long
term
and
little
by
little,
but
we
are
certainly
starting
to
see
an
impact
after
the
last
couple
of
years.
I
Infrastructure
in
public
spaces:
this
is
an
area
where
the
city
has
had
a
huge
investment,
mainly
through
a
dinner
program.
We've
had
a
little
bit
more
than
3.1
million
in
Newark
funds
that
have
gone
to
these
three
neighborhoods
over
the
last
couple
of
years.
I
love
a
little
more
again
here
in
2017,
but,
as
you
can
see,
we've
done
a
lot.
I
You
know
these
types
of
investments,
they're
they're,
really
the
it's
that
visible
public
investment.
That
starts
to
inspire
confidence
in
the
future
of
this
area.
It
says
that
you
know
the
city
cares
about
this
place,
and
so
maybe
I
should
invest
a
little
bit
into
my
home
as
I
can,
or
maybe
it's
worth
buying
a
home
in
this
area
and
fixing
it
up
a
little
bit.
A
lot
of
the
park
work
that
we've
done.
We
have,
we
have.
I
There
are
seven
parks
in
the
three
neighborhoods
and
we
have
worked
in
five
out
of
those
seven
and
we've
upgraded
several
of
the
playgrounds
and
all
of
that
work
has
been
accomplished
through
public-private
partnerships
with
our
Parks
Department
and
then
outside
community
organizations
and
I'll
talk
about
one
of
those
projects
a
little
bit
later
in
business
districts.
This
is
an
area
where
it's
been
a
little
bit
slow
to
start,
mainly
because
it's
kind
of
a
longer
longer
term
strategy.
I
We
expect
the
change
on
these
corridors
to
be
longer
term
and
we've
been
waiting
for
some
of
the
citywide
efforts
to
kind
of
line
themselves
up
like
planned,
ESM
and
identifying
the
nodes
and
corridors
through
that
effort,
and
then
the
new
traffic
and
transportation
master
plan
and
some
other
things.
But
in
the
meantime,
we've
been
focusing
on
what
we
can
do
to
support
the
existing
businesses
that
are
in
this
area.
We
have
a
lot
of
minority-owned
businesses
in
these
neighborhoods.
I
Many
of
them
are
Latino
owned,
and
so
we've
been
able
to
support
them
by
hiring
a
contractor
through
ISU
Extension,
who
is
bilingual
and
it's
been
able
to
kind
of
help.
Some
of
those
business
owners
troubleshoot
through
various
things,
ranging
from
challenges
with
their
landlord
or
code
enforcement
issues
to
financial
kind
of
bookkeeping,
type
things,
and
then
social
media
marketing.
Those
types
of
efforts,
both
NSC
and
NDC,
have
been
strong
partners
for
us.
In
the
east
bank
and
ABI
mentioned
there
lots.
I
Community
building
and
programming:
this
is
an
area
where,
when
I
did
my
presentation
the
other
week,
I
think
it
was
at
least
three
or
four
slides
long
I,
just
listing
all
of
the
different
programs
and
events
that
we've
had
going
on
in
these
three
neighborhoods,
but
I
boiled
it
down.
It's
really
been
in
in
three
considered
focus
areas:
youth
programming-
that
was
the
number
one
thing
that
we
heard
when
we
went
out
to
these
neighborhoods
through
the
planning
process.
I
If
they
really
wanted
more
programs
for
their
kids
to
participate
in
after
school,
in
the
summertime
to
have
safe
and
structured
places
for
their
kids
to
be,
we've
been
really
fortunate
to
have
a
great
partnership
with
Des
Moines
public
schools
in
this
area
and
I.
Think
our
best
success
with
these
programs
have
been
establishing
establishing
things
that
are
look
either
located
at
the
schools
or
are
in
partnership
with
the
schools
to
draw
families
in
I
really
do
want
to
emphasize
the
importance
of
this
area
in
these
particular
neighborhoods.
I
For
our
revitalization
effort,
though,
you
know,
I
think
it's
easy
for
us
to
think
about
revitalization
in
terms
of
just
the
physical
aspects
of
a
neighborhood.
But
in
areas
like
this,
there
are
a
lot
more
complex
issues
that
are
going
on
and
the
last
time
that
we
did
an
evaluation
of
our
revitalization
program
and
there
was
a
recommendation
that
talked
about
investing
more
on
the
people
and
I
would
say:
that's
something
that
we've
really
tried
to
do
in
response.
The
goals
that
these
residents
it.
We
have
some
some
issues
here
that
are
pretty
tough.
I
You
know
there's
higher
than
average
and
employment
in
these
neighborhoods,
a
lot
of
poverty,
food
insecurity,
crime
and
these
types
of
issues
tend
to
manifest
themselves.
They
reflect
in
the
built
environment,
and
so
you
see
that
in
the
some
of
the
deterioration
in
the
housing
stock
and
in
the
building
condition,
it
just
adds
another
layer
of
complexity
to
the
work.
But
it's
also
some
of
the
most
rewarding
parts
of
it.
I
When
you
start
to
layer
all
of
that
together,
it
becomes
a
little
bit
cluttered
on
a
map,
and
I
will
say
that
for
the
community
programs
and
events
we
chose
not
to
have
multiple
dots,
because
it
just
made
it
even
more
unreadable.
You'll
see
that
there's
a
higher
concentration
in
the
MLK
neighborhood
than
in
the
other
two.
That's
because
we
really
started
our
implementation
work
there.
I
There
2.0
strategy
under
the
capital
core,
that's
also
recommended
putting
together
a
model
program
toolkit
based
on
the
work
that
we've
done
with
the
East
Bank
and
so
I
think
you
know.
That's
that's
made
me
kind
of
take
a
step
back
and
think
about.
Why
are
we
being
seen
in
this
way
out
in
the
community
is
certainly
flattering,
but
you
know
what
is
it
about
this
project
that
is
making
us
so
successful
and
I
think
you
know
for
me
personally,
one
of
the
greatest
things
that
we've
achieved
through
all
of
this.
I
We
have
nearly
30
partner
organizations
that
have
committed
to
this
work
voluntarily,
and
you
know
I
think
one
of
our
biggest
successes
that
I'm
seeing
is
that
web
of
connections
that
were
that
we're
building
through
this,
and
that
continues
to
grow
all
of
the
time.
And
we
see
it
among
partner
organizations
that
might
be
doing
similar
things
in
the
community,
but
didn't
know
each
other
previously,
and
we
see
it
among
partner
organizations
that
are
doing
very
different
things
in
the
community
and
have
come
together
to
work
on
one
project.
I
And
then
we
see
a
neighborhood
residents
that
are
that
are
building
relationships
with
organizations
in
the
community
and
beginning
to
learn
how
to
access
a
lot
of
the
resources
that
are
available
to
them,
and
it's
really
those
relationships
that
are
going
to
last
beyond
the
end
of
this
project,
because
at
some
point
view
the
East
Bank
will
go
away
but
those
relationships
and
that
knowledge
is
how
to
connect
with
those
resources.
That's
going
to
last
beyond
Center
and
help
us
all
as
we
move
forward,
one
example
of
those
partner
collaborations.
I
This
was
a
project
that
happened.
This
past
fall
and
it
was
a
rebuilding,
Together
Meredith,
workday
project.
This
is
the
third
year
in
a
row
that
Meredith
Corporation
has
chosen
to
work
in
the
via
the
East
Bank
neighborhoods
as
part
of
their
rebuilding
Together
day,
and
then,
of
course,
it
was
a
collaboration
with
our
Parks
and
Recreation
Department.
They
did
a
major
overhaul
on
red
head
Park,
which
all
of
you
visited
just
prior
to
this
playground
going
in
when
we
dedicated
the
shelter
to
Nadine,
Howe
gate
and
I.
I
This
was
just
such
a
cool
project
because
it
really
lifts
up
the
history
of
the
park
that
used
to
be
a
Barnum
&,
Bailey,
Circus
campground,
as
well
as
a
civil
war
campground
and
then,
of
course,
has
has
ties
with
so
Wesley
red
head
family.
So
they
really
did
an
amazing
job
of
lifting
up
that
history
and
coming
together
to
create
a
place
and
a
new
identity
for
this
park
that
you
know
it's
just
a
much
more
memorable
experience
for
the
people
who
come
here.
It's.
I
It
is,
and
it
was
well
used
before,
and
so
you
know
having
updated
equipment
in
there.
It
just
makes
all
the
difference
in
the
world
and
you
can
sort
of
see
the
the
basketball
court
was
painted
with
a
mural.
This
was
an
idea.
One
of
our
project
management
team
saw
in
Detroit
when
they
were
there
for
a
NeighborWorks
training
and
brought
it
suggested
it
was
to
Meredith.
They
were
all
about
it.
They
had
kids
at
Capitol,
View,
Elementary
kind
of
give
inspiration
for
the
design
and
then
also
kind
of
plate
up
on
that
circus
theme.
I
That
made
a
lot
of
sense,
and
so
she
mentioned
that
at
one
of
our
community
programming
partners,
meetings
and
organizations
very
quickly
came
on
board
at
a
relationship
with
Salvation
Army
they
offered
to
bring
their
canteen
truck,
and
so
every
Monday
of
this
school
year
at
6:00
a.m.
we
have
police
officers
and
community
volunteers
that
show
up
to
serve
breakfast
and
on
the
first
Monday
I
think
we
served
60
some
students
and
last
week
it
was
over
a
thousand.
I
So
that
has
certainly
been
the
breakout
star
of
the
year.
We've
also
had
council
members
councilmember
Westergaard
is
there
nearly
every
week
she's
been
wonderful
about
drumming
up
donations
to
the
program,
as
well
as
supervisor
Hockensmith
and
school
board
member
connie
bo's'n.
We
have
not
only
had
local
businesses
step
up
with
monetary
donations,
but
also
with
food.
Hi
v--
provides
two
hundred
and
fifty
servings
twice
a
month.
Every
month
for
this
past
school
year
and
Northern
Lights
pizza
is
doing
the
same
once
a
month.
I
So
we're
you
know
as
the
school
year
wraps
up
and
we
move
into
the
summer
looking
at
ways
that
we
can
sustain
this
program
into
the
future.
But
one
of
the
exciting
things
is
that
we
are
seeing
crying
going
down
on
Monday
mornings
and
attendance
is
going
up
on
Monday
mornings,
and
you
know
outside
of
that
sort
of
data
that
you
can
quantify
I
think
the
best
part
about
this
program
has
been
to
watch
the
relationships
change
between
the
kids
and
the
volunteers
who
are
there
every
morning
you
know.
I
Not
only
are
we
seeing
perceptions
change
from
the
student
perspective
of
you
know,
they're,
making
eye
contact
and
saying.
Thank
you
and
grateful
to
see
the
volunteers
there
and
it.
You
know
it's
changing
their
minds,
a
little
bit
about
police
officers
and
just
adults
in
their
community,
but
also
the
other
way
around
I
think
you
know.
I
We've
had
volunteers
that
come
back
week
after
week
after
week,
and
some
of
them
are
longtime
neighborhood
residents,
and
so
you
know
where
someone
may
have
seen
those
high
school
kids
is
sort
of
contributing
to
the
problems
of
their
neighborhoods,
now
I
think
they're,
seeing
them
in
a
different
light.
So
this
has
been
a
really
cool
project
too.
I
In
terms
of
what's
next,
you
know
we
see
that
the
east
bank
will
probably
be
around
for
at
least
a
few
more
years,
and
so,
in
addition
to
continuing
all
of
the
things
that
we
have
been
doing
that
I
mentioned
previously,
we
have
a
few
issues
that
we
want
to
turn
our
attention
to
in
2017,
more
specifically,
one
being
that
access
to
healthy
food
and
doing
a
little
bit
more
in
that
area
also
outreach
to
diverse
populations.
That
continues
to
be
a
challenge
for
us.
I
There's
a
lot
of
diversity
in
these
three
neighborhoods,
a
lot
of
non-english
speaking
families
and
so
looking
for
ways
that
we
can
continue
to
better
connect
with
them
and
understand
their
needs
and
be
able
to
respond
to
those
needs,
building
sustainability
and
youth
programming
funding
for
that
can
fluctuate
and
so
trying
to
do
what
we
can
to
you
know.
We've
had
several
programs
that
have
become
consistent
over
the
last
several
years,
so
we
want
to
make
sure
that
they
can
continue
to
be
consistent
programs
to
serve
these
families
on
into
the
future.
I
We're
involved
in
several
sort
of
pedestrian
safety
and
walkability
studies.
One
of
those
as
connect
downtown
comes
up
into
these
neighborhoods,
the
boundaries
of
that
or
East
University
in
East
14th,
and
then,
of
course,
we
have
to
step
it
up,
effort
to
which
the
mayor
has
been
a
part
of
that
project,
so
we'll
be
looking
forward
to
seeing
those
recommendations
and
what
we
can
do
to
improve.
Walkability
we've
done
a
lot
of
the
major
infrastructure
improvements
like
like
park
upgrades
and
so
we're
turning
our
attention
to
more
of
the
small
scale.
I
Things
like
public
art
and
just
the
small
beautification
place,
making
projects
with
housing
law
we'll
continue
to
do
what
we've
been
doing.
We're
also
turning
our
attention
a
little
bit
more
intentionally
to
add
education,
effort
around
financial
literacy,
homebuyer
education
and
then
also
home
maintenance,
education
in
capital
parks.
Specifically,
we
want
to
work
on
a
few
more
strategies
to
improve
the
rental
housing
conditions.
I
Enforcement
will
certainly
be
an
important
part
of
that.
We're
looking
at
developing
corridor
plans
for
East
University
and
East
Grand
Avenue,
pulling
in
the
information
that's
being
gathered
through
the
walkability
studies
and
the
transportation
master
plan
and
then
working
with
some
of
the
existing
business
owners
on
design
improvements
to
their
properties.
I
I
We
have
a
couple
of
our
steering
committee
members
here.
Councilmember
westergaard's
joined
our
steering
committee
last
year.
Lance
Henning
is
out
in
the
audience
from
habitat
and
then
Chris
Johansson
has
been
on
our
steering
committee
they've
been
great
at
helping
with
ideas
for
fundraising,
troubleshooting
and
you
know
generally
keeping
me
in
line.
I
While
I
take
the
lead
on
the
project
management.
We
have
a
team
of
people
that
have
been
working
with
us,
dedicated
from
various
partner
organizations
and
I
I
cannot
emphasize
enough
the
importance
of
having
this
dedicated
staff.
None
of
this
work
would
be
getting
done
if
we
didn't
have
that
dedicated
staff
to
do
the
coordination
and
the
convening
and
sort
of
keeping
everything
on
track.
We've
got
a
number
of
great
great
partner
organizations.
All
of
them
have
committed
to
this
initiative
on
a
voluntary
basis.
I
Of
course
we
couldn't
do
this
without
funding,
and
the
City
of
Des
Moines
has
certainly
been
one
of
our
major
funders.
I
was
hoping,
I
would
have
a
breakdown
of
sort
of
the
public-private
funding,
but
I
need
to
do
a
little
bit
more
work
on
our
previous
years
before
I
can
get
to
that.
But
we
know
we've
had
you
know
the
three
million
of
Newark
and
then
quite
a
bit
in
the
housing
area
as
well,
and
so
I
would
say
the
city
investment
has
been
upwards
of
four
million.
I
And
then
just
one
final,
closing
thought
and
then
I'm
happy
to
take
any
questions
you
might
have.
You
know
I
think
it's
just
important
to
remember
that
that
change
in
neighborhoods
like
this
is
not
going
to
happen
overnight,
particularly
the
kind
of
change
that
we're
hoping
to
achieve
it's
more
much
more
incremental
in
nature.
It
takes
a
long
time
for
us
to
build
trust
in
these
neighborhoods,
but
neighborhood
planning
and
work
like
this.
I
You
know
the
City
of
Des
Moines
is
not
very
well
equipped
to
do
a
lot
of
youth
programming,
others
and
through
our
Parks
Recreation
programming,
and
so
we
really
had
to
reach
out
in
that
area
and
understand
what
else
was
out
there
and
what
partners
we
could
bring
in
from
the
community.
And
that
being
said,
I
do
think
that
one
of
the
reasons
why
V
V
east
bank
has
been
so
successful
is
because
the
city
has
been
the
lead
driver
of
this
project.