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ENGLEWOOD DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY
3333 South Bannock, Suite 480
Board of Directors
Minutes 12/14/94
Members Present: Close, Coleman, Collins, Duemke,
Kaufman, Kientz, Pfannensteil,
Sanchez, Hathaway
Members Absent: Oxman, Todd
Staff Present: Celva, Doyle
Guests/Visitors: Doug Clark, Englewood City Manager
I.
Lee Merkel, Director of Community Development
Introduction of Guests and Visitors
The meeting was called to order at 12:00 noon.
Harold Celva welcomed Englewood City Manager, Doug
Clark, and Director of Community Development, Lee
Merkel.
II. Director's Report
A. city Manager, Doug Clark relates his
perceptions regarding Englewood, economic
development and the relationship of business
to the public sector.
Doug Clark has been in public service for the past 18
years with a background in City Planning. He graduated
from the University of Omaha. As City Manager of
Pella, Iowa a large part of his time was spent working
on public power issues. He stated that with
deregulation public power will be going through a
dramatic change in the next 3 to 5 years.
Mr. Clark felt that Englewood is in a transition
period, with issues facing Englewood that are more
common to an inner city area than to a suburban area.
He stated that decisions made today have long term
implications. His two priorities as City Manager in
this community are economic development and housing.
He feels they are very complementary to each other.
The housing in Englewood is at least 50 years old. He
wants to use census data and a field survey to help set
a direction, but feels that even with this data, other
,
issues might influence the type of housing stock that
will be built.
Mr. Clark, reported that economic development has
changed from being a quiet process to being very open
and competitive. While recruitment is important you
still see most job growth through incumbent industry.
In the northwest industrial sector Mr. Clark feels it
will exceed a 30% to 40% rate of growth in the coming
years.
The three things Mr. Clark will be focusing on as City
Manager are business retention, industrial retention
and new business development. After the City's three
month due diligence period with Cinderella City and the
developer he is concerned with the Broadway corridor
all the way from Denver to Littleton. Within the next
year the city needs to be concerned with developing
long term strategies.
B. Director of Community Development, Lee Merkel
on proposed Cinderella city re-development.
Mr. Merkel reported that the selection committee and
the advisory groups had spent two days with four
potential developers of the site. Additional
interviews with each of these four will be conducted on
December 19th and 20th and hopefully a recommendation
will be made to City Council in mid-January. Merkel
stated that the developers believed the site to be
viable for a retail project with a five mile radius
market area. After the C1ty concludes an agreement
with the current owners and all due diligence is
performed the site can be turned over to a developer.
Demolition and construction will most probably begin
once leasing reaches 65% of capacity. Mr. Merkel
presented the Board with three examples of current
conceptual plans.
C. Other
III. Approval of Minutes
Chairman Close asked if there were any additions or
corrections to the minutes of the November 9th meeting.
There being none a motion was made by Kientz, seconded
by Hathaway and passed unanimously approving the
minutes as presented.
IV. Treasurer's Report
The Treasurer not being present a report was not made.
v. Chairman's Report (Executive Session)
A. Annual Review of Executive Director
The Board approved an annual salary increase of
$1,000.00 and a performance bonus of $2,000.00 for
Executive Director, Harold Celva.
B. Other
VI. Board Members Choice
There being no further business Hathaway made a motion to adjourn
meeting, Coleman seconded and passed the motion. The meeting was
adjourned at 1:45 p.m.
submitted,