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TABLE OF CONTENTS 03 Who We Are. What We Do. 04 Message from President & CEO BETWEEN 05 2019 Board of Directors & Governors NOW 06 2019 DDI Members AND 07 Public Safety WHEN 10 Maintenance & Beautification 13 Economic Development & Planning 15 The 360 Plan – Great Placemaking 16 The 360 Plan – Complete Neighborhoods 18 The 360 Plan – Urban Mobility 20 Strategic Partnerships & Communications 22 Membership Development 23 2019 DDI Foundation & Board Members 02 ANNUAL REPORT 2019 Downtown Dallas, Inc. (DDI) is a private, nonprofit organization funded by voluntary membership dues, assessment revenue Safety from the Downtown Improvement District (DID) established in 38% WHO 1992, and through contracts with the City of Dallas for specific projects and programs. WE ARE Services & Improvements 24% THE DALLAS DOWNTOWN IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT The DID was created by DDI in June of 1992 to fund important supplemental services and visible improvements to our city WHAT center. In 2001, 2005, and 2013, the DID was voted by property Communications & Events 16% owners to be renewed, and has since embarked upon additional initiatives to make Downtown Dallas clean, safe, and fun for the WE DO entire community. The DID has been renewed through 2020, and is currently out for renewal for 2021 – 2027. Organization & Administration 12% 2019 Capital Improvements Cityplace Turtle Creek DOWNTOWN 4% West Village IMPROVEMENT BETWEEN NOW UPTOWN OLD EAST DISTRICT DALLAS Transportation & Improvements 6% AND State Thomas EXPENDITURES Harwood DESN Bryan Place DITCT WHEN Arts Baylor District Victory Park DEE EUM DOWNTOWN Exposition Park La Bajada West End IMPROVEENT Public Safety DITCT Trinity Groves Farmers Market Riverfront AIR Maintenance & Beautification Main Street Civic Center ARK Great Placemaking WET Grand Park South DALLAS Reunion 2019 Strategic Partnerships & Communications THE DOWNTOWN EDARS Park Row Economic Development & Planning South Blvd East Kessler DALLAS, INC. OAK South Side Complete Neighborhoods CLIFF PRIORITIES Edgewood Place Urban Mobility Lake Cli Membership Development The Bottoms 03 The 360 Plan ANNUAL REPORT 2019 One of our most important accomplishments was renewing the DDI is the only organization solely focused on Downtown, and we remain dedicated to MESSAGE FROM Downtown Improvement District (DID), a public improvement district programs that support this community, ranging from long-term planning and economic that enables us to provide critical services like the Downtown Safety development, to the way in which we experience our streets every day. PRESIDENT & CEO Patrol, Clean Team, capital improvement grants, park management, and beautification efforts throughout Downtown. In 2019, some of our accomplishments included: 1. Expansion of our homeless outreach teams, engaging more than 14,000 individuals KOURTNY GARRETT Every seven years, the DID must be approved and “renewed” by and facilitating the entry of just over 900 of those individuals into services. We’ve petition of property owners representing at least 60 percent of also reunited more than 200 people with their families through our Homeward Downtown ownership. Bound program. 2. Expanded hours for the Downtown Safety Patrol and Clean Team, as well as new The team at DDI, with the help of our DID Renewal Task Force, Park Patrol deployment and adding equipment and technology like GEM cars, GPS succeeded in surpassing our goals, which is a testament to monitoring, bodycams, and fully-integrated Eponic data collection and tracking. Downtown stakeholders’ commitment to this community, and 3. Increased usage of the DDI clean and safe app, See Say Now, providing real-time recognition that this unique, complex, and exciting urban reporting capabilities for clean and safe issues with a seven minute or less response environment requires the additional dedicated services that time from our teams. Download it for free today in the iPhone or Android app store. DDI provides. 4. Provided a grant that will add more horses to the Mounted Unit for increased presence Downtown. Since the DID was formed in 1992, Downtown has evolved into an 5. Launch of Bike Harwood, phase one installation of a bike lane and future multi-use area made up of unique neighborhoods with more than 12,000 path that will ultimately extend from Dallas Heritage Village in the Cedars to Klyde residents, and our workforce population remains the largest in North Warren Park. Prioritized in the 360 Plan, a partnership with Better Block and the City Texas with 135,000 employees. of Dallas has advanced this project that will continue into 2020. 6. A full audit and improvement plan for every crosswalk in Downtown And we have a lot to look forward to: three new parks on the BETWEEN (all 700 of them!). horizon, 1,600 new residents to fill up five new residential buildings, 7. Opening of Pacific Plaza, Downtown’s newest completed park, thanks to the Parks for and $4 billion of active private development underway today. So NOW Downtown Dallas Foundation and City of Dallas. as we celebrate our accomplishments from last year, we also look 8. Support of 20+ partnered events and produced over 40 successful community forward to continued growth of the heart of our city. AND events like NamaStay Downtown, Downtown Bunny Hop, Impulse public art installation, Unbranded, Santa Stroll, Trick-or-Treat on Downtown Streets, and more. We are also grateful for our members, whose financial support of WHEN 9. Improvements to Main Street Garden including a new expanded playground and the organization supplements DID activities and allows us to be dog run. greater advocates for economic development, urban mobility, 10. Providing custom market reports for our members and stakeholders, including housing, community outreach, and overall planning that prioritizes demographics, pedestrian counts, industry reports, and more, to lure business. connectivity between Downtown and the important adjacent 11. Ensuring Downtown’s priorities are recognized in regional mobility issues, advancing neighborhoods that comprise a complete City Center. priorities for Downtown in projects like D2, I-30, I-345, and High-Speed Rail, 2019 WAS ANOTHER EXCITING as well as implementation of local mobility solutions like bike lane and scooter I encourage you to dive in to this Annual Report with great infrastructure, walkability improvements, and micro-transit. AND EXTREMELY BUSY YEAR interest as you will find important information about our services, 12. Facilitating progress with large-scale catalytic developments like the AT&T Discovery opportunities for engagement, and fantastic news about programs, FOR DOWNTOWN DALLAS, INC. District and East Quarter, to important neighborhood businesses like Pegasus City development, and market trajectory. Brewery. We’ve spent a great deal of time supporting an unprecedented list of catalytic developments – that $4B of development. We are in a very special moment in Downtown, and with our shared 13. Leading the 360 Plan work groups focused on education, housing, mobility, and partnership, dedication, and passion for this area, the next decade pedestrian/bike improvements to ensure plan action items are implemented. of success is at our fingertips. 14. Working closely with the Downtown community and Dallas ISD to open a new Montessori elementary school that will launch with grades Pk3 – 2nd. Applications are now open and the school opens in August 2020! All of this – from market information, to what we do as an organization, to listings of great places to eat, shop, and live – all in Downtown – can be found on our newly refreshed 04 Kourtny Garrett President & CEO, Downtown Dallas, Inc. website, downtowndallas.com. ANNUAL REPORT 2019 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Wes Caywood Mike Hoque Holly Reed J.P. Morgan Hoque Global Texas Central Railway Dr. José Adames BOARD OF El Centro College Mattia Flabiano, III Steve Hulsey Jon Ruff Page Corgan Spire Realty Group, LP Liz Beauchamp Atmos Energy Corporation Kourtny Garrett Amy Lewis Hofland Amy Tharp Downtown Dallas, Inc. Dallas Arts District Downtown Dallas, Inc. DIRECTORS Ted M. Benn Thompson & Knight LLP Jim Greer Katy Murray Michael Tregoning Oncor A. H. Belo Corporation Headington Companies Brian Bergersen Spectrum Properties, LTD Ted Hamilton Michael Peterson Allan Zreet & GOVERNORS Dallas Farmers Market Hamilton Properties Corporation AT&T Jacobs BOARD OF GOVERNORS Dave Brown James Frye Linda McMahon Joel Pustmueller Gary Thomas American Airlines Center HNTB The Real Estate Council JLL Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Vince Ackerson Julie Butticarlo Eric Hage Amy Meadows Ken Reese Texas Capital Bank World Class Capital Structure Tone Parks for Downtown Dallas Hillwood Development Rob Thomas BETWEEN Group LLC Southwest, LLC Victory Park RED Development, LLC Tim Adair Adam Medrano NOW Neiman Marcus Matt Craft Jessica Heer City of Dallas Cheryl Richards Shawn Todd Lincoln Property Company Dallas Regional Chamber VisitDallas Todd Interests Jonathan Aldis Jerry Merriman AND Stantec John Crawford Jeff Hendricks Merriman Anderson Lesa Roe Jonathan Vinson Crawford Consulting Bank of America Merrill Lynch Architects Inc. University of North Jackson Walker L.L.P. WHEN Wade Andres Real Estate Texas Systems ANDRES Construction Barbara Houlihan Ryan Miyamoto Ray Washburne Larry Daniels Plaza of the Americas The Statler Hotel & Scott Rohrman Charter Holdings Brock Bailey HRI Properties, LLC Residences 42 Real Estate, LLC Bracewell LLP Darryl Jett Steven T. Whitcraft Nicholas “Nick” Diaz Hall Arts Hotel Dan Noble
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