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Economic Development Advisory Committee 092623
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We
will
enter
into
the
negotiations
with
the
firm
to
start
developing
both
programs,
zero
percent
loan
and
the
grant
program.
So
we're
hoping
that
at
the
meeting
in
October
for
the
committee
to
bring
it
back
who
the
vendor
is
going
to
be
what
firm
was
selected
and
start
soliciting
any
input
from
the
committee
on
any
ideas
you
might
have
for
the
future
programs.
Okay,
who.
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The
update
that
I
was
that
was
passed
on
to
me
by
Miriam
was
that
maybe
you
were
going
to
give
something
on
this,
but
that
on
our
end
we
have
not
received
any
addresses
at
least
I
haven't
for
me
to
come
in
the
committee
members.
That's
where
we
are
I,
don't
know
if
that
is
still
a
standing
in
action.
If
we
want
to,
you
know
take
that
in
let
the
record
reflect.
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To
them,
yes,
okay,
because
because
I
think,
when
they
reach
out
to
these
businesses
or
Property
Owners,
they
they
need
to
test
on
both
sides,
because
it's
been
said
that
they
go
and
they
test
the
main
pipe
and
there's
no
issues
and
the
reason.
There's
an
issue
is
the
connection
between
the
maintenance
and
the
business.
But
there's
no
way
to
even
confirm
that
unless
they
actually
go
into
the
businesses
and
tests
right,
they
have
to
do
it
on
both
sides.
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This
is
a
committee
receiving
to
block
one
block
two
by
email
or
something
that
may
actually
get
the
process
going
to
actually
meeting
the
goals
of
what
we
want
to
accomplish
in
the
downtown
area
and
in
other
areas
you
may
see
in
another
area
somebody
coming
back
and
saying
you
know
what
I
have
that
same
problem
in
my
neighborhood
and
we
might
have
to
do
that
at
a
later
date.
But
it
seems
you
know,
as
we
just
saw,
we
know
no
one
from
the
from
the
water
system.
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E
They're
busy-
and
we
understand
that
and
you
know
they're
they
got
things
to
do
and
they
may
not
be
able
to
get
here.
But
if
we
had,
you
know
hey
this
block
was
this
week.
Here
are
the
five
locations
that
we
looked
at.
You
know
here's
the
report
and
then
we
can
weaken
as
individuals
say.
Oh
you
know
what
this
address
or
or
even
use
Main
Street
as
a
as
a
means
of
communication,
saying
you
know
what,
and
this
and.
E
E
Does
you
know
and
that
that
really
shows
you
that
it's
an
internal,
but
they
may
not
have
time
to
to
make
a
presentation,
but
they
could
say
you
know
we
saw
these
five
houses,
these
five
buildings,
and
this
is
what
we
saw,
but
we
could
say
you
know
what
in
Block
101
something
we
saw,
nothing
wrong
on
the
outside
yeah
and
the
20th
centers
the
Panthers
responding.
It's
like
responding
to
Mario
Mark,
responding
to
the
water
utilities
director,
and
they
can
forward
it
to
us
by
emails.
Not
this
time
consuming
keeps
away
from
their.
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Because
easily
from
the
appraisals
I
can
we
can
give
you
a
list
of
these
are
the
addresses
of
buildings
you
know
and
along
the
street
and
you'd
say:
okay.
Well,
we
did
five.
We
only
did
five
in
one
month
at
five,
but
we
had
the
information
that
we
could
pass
on
to
someone
there's
action
yeah
and
that's
what
there
seems
to
not
be
wearing
in
our
third
meeting
talking
about
water
because
and
there's
no
action
or
only
action
to
one
individual
and
then
he's
upset
because
well
it
was
internal
yeah.
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It
was
going
to
cost
you
money,
but
we're
trying
to
help
you
get
to
that
information.
You
were
saying
that
you
weren't
working
on
because
they
were
waiting,
and
so
some
people
may
be
ready
to
do
it,
but
they
want
to
make
sure
they're
for
sure
that
they
it's
a
problem
for
them,
because
I
mean
we
are
blooming
issues
and
plumbing
can
be
expensive.
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You
need
the
list
of
the
ad,
you
can
actually
do
an
Excel.
She'll
say
these
are
the
five
ones
that
are
what
are.
These
are
the
ten
you
know,
and
we
had
that
to
you
and
you
say:
okay
yeah,
you
might
say
you
know,
what
can
you
look
at
these
seven,
this
block
this
week
in
the
next
block
this
weekend?
They
might
tell
you
hey,
you
know
what
it's
too
much
for
us
to
do,
but
at
least
okay.
Well,
then,
how
many
can
you
do
a
month
yeah
and
go
from
there?
E
The
end
goal
is
to
to
make
sure
that
we
have.
Everyone
feel
happy
on
both
ends.
Yeah,
especially
if
there
are
some
people
trying
to
to
lease
it
and
then
they
they
have
their
real
estate
agent
saying
you
know
I'm
trying
to
lease
this
for
you,
but
then
they
tell
me
when
I
go
and
show
it
that
the
water,
the
filtration
system,
whatever
is
on
the
inside.
We
already
know
well,
the
city
approved
this
as
being
inside.
So
that's
a
issue
that
they
had
to
take
the
more
information
on
the
table.
The.
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Us
a
benchmark
goal,
you
know
hey
if
it's
five,
if
it's
three,
can
we
do
something
in
the
next
15
to
25
days
before
the
meeting,
so
you
guys
have
something
heading
into
the
October
edac
meeting
with
with
something
right
that
we've
either
got
something
from
the
water
department
says:
hey
look.
We
can't
do
that.
It's
too
many
we've
negotiated
it
down.
How
many
can
you
do,
and
now
we
start
having
something
we.
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B
B
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Then
the
reason
I
make
this
point.
I
guess
the
back
end
will
be,
and
my
discussion
part
would
be
where
we
do
hear
a
lot
of
that
there
was
no
one
that
opened
up
the
door
for
us.
So
then,
if
we
know
that
right
away,
you
can
call
it
and
say
you
know
what
make
an
appointment
and
it's
not
on
us.
We
we
tried,
we
did
our
part
to
get
that
part.
It's
on
you
yeah.
If
you
don't
want
it,
they're
not
going
to
do
it.
You
know.
So
it's.
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We
found
the
same
issue.
What
we
were
doing
there
are
inventory.
A
lot
of
the
business
have
scatter
hours,
some
of
them
open.
We
have
people
opening
from
one
two,
six
people
opening
from
11
to
about
five.
Some
people
are
opening
at
nine
or
nine
a.m
and
then
closing
at
three
right.
So
that's
a
I
feel
that's
a
very
common
thing
in
the
downtown
area.
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So
I
don't
know
if
there's
a
possibility
to
have
some
kind
of
like
a
stream
line
application
in
your
website
like
if
they
cannot
find
the
business
like
the
business
owner
like
send
them
a
letter
or
something
and
on
that
letter
say:
okay,
you
can
call
this
phone
number
and
this
is
like
how
they
can
gonna
get
to
you.
No
yeah
there's
a
discussion.
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Superhero
we
need
to
do
this,
but
at
the
same
time
don't
tell
me,
as
a
I
mean
I'm
trying
to
go
and
do
you
a
favor,
and
you
tell
me
what
I
can
only
be
there
from
67
when
you
know
that
the
City
Works
for
week
to
five
I
mean
this
is
going
to
serve
your
purpose.
Also
to
fix
your
your
own
property.
So
there's
got
to
be
some
investment
from
the
from
the
BC
or
the
or
the
landowner
or.
E
The
building
owner
or
the
person,
that's
leasing
it
from
the
building
owner.
There's
got
to
be
interest
also,
so
if
they
care
about
the
water,
though,
if
they
care
about
the
water,
they're
gonna
they're
gonna
make
the
answer.
I
mean.
That's
that's
that's
the
point
where
now
three
months
in
because
they're
part
of
the
city's
comment
was
where
the
person
wasn't
there
when
we
went
by
and
it's
like,
there's
really
so
much-
you
can
do,
there's
a
reality.
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A
board
member,
she
helped
us
with
some
of
the
design
and
also
Miguel
Hernandez.
She
is.
He
is
the
gis
director
from
City
of
Laredo
building
department
very
helpful,
with
a
lot
of
the
information
that
we
were
able
to
capture,
and
then
we
have
Dr
bidelis
and
Dr
kogoba.
They
are
both
experts
in
data
analysis,
so
they
help
us
with
some
of
the
data
that
we
collected
and
that
means
Olivia
Gordon.
She
was
responsible
of
the
graphic
design
of
Liverpool
the
whole
presentation
and
every
product
that
has
been
coming
out
of
this
project.
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G
Of
the
project,
first
of
all,
along
with
the
Viva
labetto
plan
for
downtown,
which
in
policy
2.6.5
breeds
three
eight,
are
breaking
ordinance
to
encourage
the
use
of
existing
structures,
instead
of
allowing
to
fit
them
vacant
detracting
from
a
vibrant
downtown
environment.
So
that's
on
the
Viva
La
Deva
plan,
and
because
of
these
suggestion
in
the
plan,
the
city
council
created
the
bacon
building
registration
ordinance
approved
on
August
16
2021.
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However,
the
money
within
the
management
district
there
are
certain
areas
which
is
easier
for
me
like
this
area
over
here.
All
of
this
is
presidential,
and
then
over
here
we
have
the
central
business
district.
We
focus
our
study
on
the
results
that
you're
gonna
see
here
today
are
about
this
area
in
particular,
because
this
is
where
the
majority
of
commercial
buildings
are
located
and
that's
part
of
the
ordinance.
It
only
applies
to
commercial
bills.
The
other
piece
over
here.
All
of
these
are
most.
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We
have
some
businesses,
but
most
of
these
are
government
buildings,
so
we
also
excluded
from
the
survey.
So
we
found
381
properties
in
the
downtown
in
that
square.
That
I
show
you
322
are
building
structures
with
an
59
are
known
building
structures,
meaning
they
are
a
lot
of
parking
lots
54..
We
have
two
parks
or
plazas.
We
have
two
bacon
Lots,
so
we
excluded
those
also
from
this
from
the
from
this
bacon
Lots.
Yes,
really.
G
G
Okay,
so
our
first
finding
was
that
the
buildings
or
properties
have
been
segmented,
to
automate
multiple
uses
and
one
for
one
property
might
have
a
couple
of
businesses
within
that
property
and
some
of
those
businesses
or
some
of
those
segmentations
might
be
bacon
as
well,
so
you
might
have,
for
example,
you
have
this,
is
you
know
clonica?
Okay?
So
this
is
I'm
going
to
show
you.
This
is
the
property.
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An
address
like
a
mailing
address
where
you
can
contact
the
business,
the
owner
and
you
have
the
owner
information.
This
address
is
the
official
address
in
weka.
Okay.
This
is
what
you
see
in
webcam,
this
property
like
this
has
been
segmented.
We
have
a
bacon
building
here
we
have
an
exchange
business
here
we
have
La
Unica,
there's
a
driveway
and
we
have
a
retail
store.
So
we
have
four
commercial
units
within
that
this
property,
and
one
of
them
is
bacon.
We
found
several
properties
this
way
in
our
account.
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Exact
numbers,
so
the
results
include
each
property
ID
in
the
area
of
focus
and
we
counted
all
commercial
units
per
property
and
building
ID.
So
we
adapted
our
survey
to
identify
okay,
how
many
commercial
units
are
within
this
building
and
we
gather
information
of
all
the
commercial
activity
that
was
happening
in
the
building?
Okay.
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G
So
the
other
thing
is
because
of
so
we
have
322
total
buildings.
We
have
occupied
100
occupy
51.2
percent,
so
half
of
the
buildings
are
occupied
right,
but
then
we
have
buildings
54
with
sound
level
of
vacancy.
So
the
building
the
example
that
I
gave
you
before.
We
consider
that
as
75
occupy
right,
because.
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Are
four
units
in
that
area?
One
of
them
is
vacant,
so
that's
75
because
of
that
they
can
see
Spectrum
when
we
add
how
many
buildings
are
have
some
kind
of
vacancy.
We
found
that
49.4
of
the
buildings
are
either
fully
vacant
or
have
some
level
of
vacancy
okay,
so
we
have
103
bacon,
100
bacon
buildings
and
then
16
or
almost
17
that
are
partially
baked.
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So
this
is
what
the
downtown
area
looks
like
with
the
vacancy
rate,
considering
each
commercial
unit
in
the
air.
So,
for
example,
here
we
have,
this
is
one
single
property
and
we
have
this
property
is
occupied
in
this
little
corner
over
here.
So
this
is
one
partially
they
can
build.
So
we
try
to
capture
in
our
map.
The
partial
Bay
consists
as
well.
So
that's
why
you
see
the
downtown
the
way
you
see
counter.
You
have
there's
no
almost,
except
for
these
two
over
here.
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G
G
Exactly
exactly
so
still
it's
the
most
prominent
commercial
activity
still
with
we
have
so
on
this
we
found
again
581
commercial
units
from
those
57.2
are
occupied,
246
or
the
equivalent
of
almost
43
percent
are
vacant
and
the
retail
is
24.2
percent.
After
retail,
we
don't
have
a
lot
of
other
commercial
activities
that
are
as
prominent
as
future.
We
have
the
next
one
are
restaurants
and
bars
combined.
We
have
46.,
and
that
is
the
eight
percent
of
the
industry.
Here
we
also
have
Financial
Services.
G
Those
are
all
your
exchange
money
and
some
some
banks
I
think
we
found
like
four
Banks
only
in
the
area
and
we
have
Professional
Services,
like
lawyers
that
accounts
for
4.9.
We
have
engineer
and
architectures,
also
accounting
for
Professional
Services.
So
the
finding
here
is
that
retail
is
very
important,
but
there's
no
diversification
in
what
kind
of
commercial
activity
is
happening
in
the
downtown
area.
G
People
are
not
doing
business
here
in
God,
then
our
next
finding
was
okay.
We
want
to
know
if
we
only
have
two
vacant
Lots.
What
is
the
age
and
condition
of
the
vacant
building
right,
because
those
are
the
buildings
that
need
to
be
repurposed
reused,
reassigned,
give
them
new
life.
So
that's
why
we
try
to
find
okay,
what
are
the
the
ages
and
conditions
of
the
bacon
buildings?
We
found
that
60
points.
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D
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G
Does
it
have
any
kind
of
architectural
significance?
Is
this?
Is
this
where,
when
she
was
young
right,
it's
about
a
person
has
lived
in?
That
building
also
gives
that
historical
significance.
Also
is
this
part
of
a
period
in
the
history
of
our
community?
Why?
This
is
when
the
settlement
of
I
don't
know
happen,
and
these
were
their
houses
right
so
attacked
his
historical
importance
for
that
period,
so
that
will
qualify
absolutely,
but
at
least
H
is
one
of
those
qualifiers
and
then
from
that
we
need
to
think
about.
Okay,
are
these
historical?
G
Are
they
do?
They
have
architect,
like
historical
architecture?
Are
they
meaningful?
We
have
a
building
that
is
from
the
70s.
You
can't
tell
that
building
is
from
the
70s
and
the
architecture
is
very
interesting,
but
of
course
we
look
at
that
building
and
we're
like,
oh
so
old,
but
no,
it
can't
be
from
the
architectural
period.
G
117
are
fully
vacant
in
very
poor
conditions
and
we
cut
we
catalog
those
as
endangered
that
will
make
our
endangered.
They
are
a
very
high
risk
for
the
community
credit
card
with
for
actually
falling
apart.
So
there's
only
17
I
would
say
only
17,
because
we
have
this
made
floating
around
the
community
saying
all
the
build
is
downtown
are
dilapidated,
but
actually,
which
is
not
so.
G
So
some
of
our
recommendations
are:
we
need
to
increase
the
capacity
for
economic
development
that
it's
also
part
of
the
Viva
La
Deva
plan,
which
means
incorporating
more
housing
in
the
downtown
area,
incorporating
new
new
uses
for
the
buildings,
but
also
you
can
create
commercial
clusters
that
to
develop
an
area
in
particular,
so,
for
example,
our
trade
is
very
important
to
us
it
does.
We
can
have
a
specific
Logistics
and
Technology
being
one
of
those
commercial
activities
that
we
incentivize
right.
G
If
you
have
a
logistics
building,
I'm
sorry
business
come
to
the
downtown,
we're
gonna,
give
you
I,
don't
know
a
tax
break
or
something
like
that
and
then
also
diversify
the
retail
and
the
service
offerings
here
in
downtown
inviting
people
to
actually
do
business
in
the
downtown
area.
Also,
we
need
to
revise
the
building
and
presentation
codes
to
accommodate
the
downtown
and
specific
device.
G
Every
use
of
both
historical
and
non-historical
buildings-
and
that
also
means
streamlining
the
process
right,
like
revising
everything
in
terms
of
the
building
department,
the
planning
department,
all
of
those
fire
like
all
what
are
some
of
the
regulations,
and
how
can
we
help
these
buildings
to
come
to
New
Life?
That's
the
question
so
and
of
course,
we
will
leave
that
as
a
successful
downtown
is
the
key
to
a
successful
Community.
Yes,.
E
Miss
Germany,
of
course
you
you
in
the
last
study
mentioned
there
are
x
amount
that
are
historical
unhistoric
and
earlier
you
mentioned
that
many
people
believe
that,
because
the
downtown
is
old,
that
it's
a
historic
place
but
to
even
the
landowners
know
that
some
of
those
buildings
are
non-historic,
I
mean
there's
more,
you
can
do.
Sometimes
people
don't
do
stuff
because
they
think
it's
going
to
cost
me
a
lot
more
to
get
it
done,
because
it's
been
a
historic
value.
G
That
have
been
designated
as
historical
zones
already.
They
are
already
in
place
right.
Those
building
owners
should
know
that
their
building
is
within
the
historical
designation.
Some
other
places
are
not
and
that
building
may
or
may
not
qualify
as
historical,
so
there's
a
lot
of
work
that
needs
to
happen
either
to
say
this
building
can
be
historical.
You
cannot,
and
this
is
what
you
can
do,
or
this
is
not
historical.
You
can
pretty
much
change
everything
right.
So
there's
a
lot
of
work
to
do
with
the
Philippine
Department.
My.
G
But
the
ordinance
actually
requires
these
building
owners
to
register
and
say
what
other
plans
for
their
bacon
Builder
right.
That's
that's
all
the
arguments.
It's
not
a
very
complicated
thing.
Just
tell
me:
what
are
your
plans
in
six
months
a
year
for
your
ability
and
once
we
know,
or
once
you
decide,
this
is
enough
to
incentivize
owners
to
actually
put
the
money
or
sell
the
buildings
right,
because
maybe
they
don't
want
to
do
anything
other.
A
Cities
use
this
in
their
Economic
Development
strategy
when
they're
trying
to
bring
businesses
in
the
city
themselves
as
economic
development
department.
You
know,
let's
say
they're
talking
to
I,
don't
know
a
company
that
wants
to
create
a
certain.
You
know
Tech
they're,
going
to
do
like
a
tech
center
or.
A
A
A
E
G
Cool
yeah,
yeah
I
have
a
list
of
the
20
buildings
and
I
have
a
list
of
the
169
retail
stores,
some
of
them
we
couldn't
find
the
name,
for
example,
or
we
couldn't
find
specific
information.
Another
thing
that
happened
that
I
didn't
mentioned
here
is
that
some
of
those
segmental
buildings
have
unique
addresses
for
each
of
their
segmentations.
G
A
G
A
I,
just
so,
did
you
guys
ever
look
into
finding
out
like
what?
What
does
it
mean
to
say
that
we're
at
51?
You
know
because
I
I
don't
know
what
the
numbers
are
today
and
every
economists
will
kind
of
occupy
it
differently,
but
the
rule
of
thumb
that
I've
been
taught
as
a
broker
is.
If
you
have
20
vacancy,
that's
considered,
you
know
an
area
in
recession.
If
you
have
more
than
40
percent,
that's
suppression,
you
are
in
in
the
complete
danger
zone
and.
G
D
G
Exactly
and
that's
why
I
really
enjoy
this
project,
because
we
we
had
a
heart,
we
had
an
idea.
We
we
thought
right.
Things
were
not
as
good
as
we
wanted,
but
this
is
like
actual
numbers.
We
might
have
don't
make
a
mistake
right,
like
probably
that
building
is
occupied
and
we
didn't
know
right,
but
I
think
the.
G
So,
for
example,
the
tourist
meeting-
and
we
share
this
information
and
people
that
have
not
seen
this-
they
saw
the
results
we
presented
at
city
council,
so
the
information
is
available
for
the
general
public.
They
can
access
that
meeting
where
we
present
it
I'm,
not
sure.
If
Economic
Development
will
have
the
final
report
available
for
the
public.
C
G
F
F
Other
levels
of
these
other
buildings,
where
it's
like
well,
they
use,
will
take
you
so
much
money
to
go
and
there
these
are
almost
there.
These
are
they're
just
faking
recently,
so
they're
good
to
go.
You
can
go
in
there
and
in
a
week
or
so
at
work
they're
in
the
classifications
on
these
buildings.
Right
now,.
G
G
G
D
D
G
G
Of
that
was
the.
What
we
did
was
we
identified.
Okay,
is
this
bill?
Does
this
building
look
in
good
condition,
minimal
repairs,
a
coat
of
paint
might
do
it,
it
can
be
occupied.
This
building
is
in
fair
condition.
It
needs
some
repairs,
but
it
can
be
shortly
occupied
this
building
is
in
bad
condition,
needs
going,
it's
gonna
need
really
a
lot
of.
C
D
B
C
So
this
one
for
the
park,
Nixon,
Sidewalk,
Cafe
I've,
been
instructed
to
let
the
committee
know
that
this
ordinance
is
now
live.
It
did
pass
on
the
18th
of
this
month
during
Council,
it's
tied
to
ordinance
number
2023-0
s186.
So
it's
what
started
as
a
temporary
ordinance
is
now
a
full
Run
and
Gun
ordinance.
It's
live,
it's
got
fees
attached
to
it
and
the
building
department
is
is
handling
it
again,
and
the
application
processes
is
ready
to
go
yeah.