THE DOWNTOWN IMPACT REPORT Creaing a Downtown Experience that is Safe, Fun, and Welcoming! The Erie Downtown Partnership is all about the downtown experience. And that experience puts people and placemaking front and center as we work to make downtown safe, fun, and welcoming. As a Downtown Improvement District, we deploy core services such as liter removal, power washing, snow removal from sidewalks, and graii removal. We weed bump outs, water hanging baskets, and assist in the planing and maintenance of trees. These services keep our downtown clean and safe for stakeholders. As a designated Keystone Communiies Main Street, we work to bring transformaive projects and support to the downtown business community to create a welcoming downtown environment that can support the mass created by our acivaion strategy. Creaing a vibrant sense of place through physical improvements helps to make our Main Street business ready. As part of our programming eforts, we uilize our resources and collaborate to create a fun downtown by producing regular aciviies that engage others, new pop up events that connect people and marquee events that help us gather as a community. Through this variety of services and programming, we coninue to focus on what truly maters: people. Our work is focused directly on achieving a beter quality of place through our markeing, advocacy and placemaking eforts that speciically support what’s there, who’s there, and what’s going on in downtown. We will further develop these iniiaives in 2020 as we coninue key partnerships and alignments to strengthen the downtown core. With great CARE, Your Erie Downtown Partnership Board of Directors and Staf A Safe Downtown… Downtown is alive with more aciviies and investment than ever before. Safety is an ongoing priority as we look to minimize vacancies among our storefronts, support downtown living, prevent blight and neglected spaces, and deter crime in downtown’s core. Our downtown needs to be ready to welcome new businesses, employees, residents and guests 24/7. The work of creaing a safe downtown never stops. We’ve leveraged a partnership with Provider Resources Inc. Community (PRI Community) to add addiional cleaning crews to our 70-block footprint plus we’ve added addiional liter receptacles to the Bayfront District. The Erie Downtown Partnership coninues to invest in external security cameras throughout downtown that add a presence and coverage in areas ideniied as beneiing the public and surrounding area. A Fun Downtown… We believe holding space for community building creates emoional connecions for people that is vital to the downtown experience. We know that people irst invest emoionally before they invest in other ways. Creaing an acivaion strategy that is inclusive by making paricipaion in downtown events afordable and accessible coninues to be central to our planning. Whether it’s yoga at Dobbins Landing or a dance break in Perry Square there’s something for everyone and everyone can feel good about choosing to be in downtown Erie. Seeing smiles shared among paricipants and onlookers alike is priceless. It’s about being together to celebrate everyone that makes downtown a special place including residents, A Welcoming Downtown… employees and guests. The Erie Downtown Partnership is commited to invesing in public spaces We coninue to build our event oferings and will introduce several new and redeining how we use this space to support our event aciviies. We are marquee and pop-up events in 2020. It is our goal to create experiences for also commited to improving downtown’s built environment that supports people in downtown year-round capitalizing on our four disinct seasons our members and their businesses. and the needs of stakeholders like you. We coninue to invest in downtown façade improvements and have partnered with the City of Erie to stack funding for such projects through the City’s Flagship Fund so property owners and business owners can more readily invest in their properies while also elevaing the built environment that creates a disinct sense of place in downtown. Creaive and welcoming design also helps to elevate the look and feel of downtown. Our irst gateway structure is scheduled for install this summer. More public art will be unveiled as part of our coninued Art + Acivaion iniiaive. We will coninue to support other key infrastructure and ameniies that promote the objecives of our Five-Year Main Street Strategy. We believe that deining needs and collaboraing on soluions is the only way to spur collecive acion that gets results. Asking for feedback helps us prioriize needs and gives us the data we need to drive decisions. Our work is aligned with Mayor Schember’s administraion and his vision for Erie. We provide opportuniies for downtown stakeholders to convene and communicate. Property Summits have been key for property owners and investors to connect, share, and help inform our prioriies. These collaboraive meeings will coninue as a way to proacively support the investments being made in downtown Erie. Downtown Erie is evolving with rapid investment, new Advocacy businesses, and an energy that has inluenced many aricles on how our city is leveraging the many opportuniies we have for transformaion. From Keystone Opportunity Zones to LERTA people are being incenivized to invest and build in downtown We believe that telling the downtown story and making people Erie like never before. feel a part of that story through placemaking aciviies helps Marketing build conidence in our downtown core. We are promoters of the good, unique, and abundant opportunity that is all around downtown. Telling that story through social media engagements, adverising and press events will coninue. So will event partnerships, in-store pop ups, customer incenives, event contests and more. Finding unique ways to cross-promote and involve businesses will be part of our ongoing eforts to grow downtown and to add to the downtown experience. It starts with you. Each of us has a responsibility to create the downtown we want. To create it for our future. Your investment to spend your ime, your money, and put in the efort to create the next chapter for downtown Erie is criical. We need you downtown to paricipate—in events, in decision making, in the collecive call to acion to be beter than we were yesterday. Each of you is an agent of change. Using your inluence to help others and to write a beter story that tells the downtown story in real ime. In a real way. Placemaking 20% Administra ion 2019 % Placemaking FINANCIALS 80 $18,540 Programs DOWNTOWN D’LIGHTS & Services DÉCOR EXPENSES Markeing $11,141 $25,888 FAÇADE GRANTS GIVEN MULTIPLATFORM ADVERTISING Safety Advocacy $3,390 $11,712 SECURITY CAMERA GRANTS STATE MAIN STREET CONFERENCE HOST Event Maintenance $103,890 $73,222 EVENT MANAGEMENT TOTAL MAINTENANCE EXPENSES FOR 2019 The EDP 2018 audited inancial statements are available online and by request. Our 2019 inancial statements are currently in the audit process and will be available when the audit is complete. Placemaking Stats Markeing Stats $8,630 10,000+ 61,600 90 GIFT CERTIFICATES SOLD EVENT ATTENDEES POUNDS OF LITTER HOURS OF POWER REMOVED FROM SIDEWALKS WASHING SERVICES 493 100+ 13,940 5,383 POSITIVE MEDIA IMPRESSIONS MANAGED EVENTS CITY BLOCKS CLEANED GALLONS OF WATER POWER WASHING 250+ 55 6,870 ADVERTISEMENTS PLACED CROSS PROMOTION WITH DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES HOURS OF CLEANING 30 CITY BLOCKS POWER WASHED 81,500 CIGARETTE BUTTS REMOVED 33 Advocacy Stats TREES MAINTAINED 23 GRAFFITI MARKINGS REMOVED 65 $92,000 24 BUSINESSES GRANT FUNDING HANGING BASKETS WATERED DIRECTLY ASSISTED ACQUIRED 1,250 DAILY JUNESEPTEMBER HOURS OF REMOVING SNOW 5 2 90 SURVEYS REQUESTED PUBLIC INPUT MEETINGS HOURS WEEDING 6 6 1,800 SUPPORT LETTERS REQUESTED SUPPORT LETTERS WRITTEN POUNDS OF WEEDS REMOVED 2019 Members and Key Partners Board of Directors 1031 STATE STREET LLC CLECKLEY’S BARBER SHOP 1220 PEACH LLC CLOUD 9 George Willis, Chairman of the Board 12TH & STATE LLC COLUSSI REAL ESTATE 1401 STATE ST. LLC COMMONWEALTH OF PA Reired, Urban Engineers 1839 REALTY COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION 21 LA RUE DIX COMMUNITY HEALTH NET William Matrogran, Vice President 21ST CENTURY ERIE DEVELOPMENT CONNOISSEUR MEDIA VP, Corporate Services Division, Erie Insurance Group 28 NORTH GASTROPUB CONRAIL 302 ASSOCIATES REALTY PARTNERSHIP CONRAIL ERIE FEDERAL CREDIT UNION Ray Moluski, Treasurer 408 BAR & GRILLE CORNERSTONE DEVELOPERS VP, UPMC Hamot Medical Center 419 ARTIFACTS COUNTY OF ERIE 715 INVESTORS COURTYARD ERIE BAYFRONT HOTEL A KANG & ASSOCIATES LLC THE COVE Keith Taylor, PhD, Secretary A&M SALSA PARTNERSHIP COVELLI REAL ESTATE President, Gannon University ABDUL BAZZ CREDIT BUREAU OF ERIE INC. represented by Erika Ramalho ACHIEVEMENT CENTER CRICKET WIRELESS ADULT MART CROWNER ARCHITECTS Joe Schember ADVANCED WINDOWS & SIDING DAFMARK DANCE THEATER ALABED HAMID MOHAMMED DANIEL & JING INC. Mayor, City of Erie ALBERT M COVELLI REVOCABLE TRUST DAVE’S DINER ALKEME DAVISON FOX LLC Marci Honard AMELIA’S DELUCA FAMILY 2011 IRREVOCABLE TRUST Owner, Calamari’s Squid Row ANGELO’S BEAUTY SUPPLY DENNISTON GALLERY OF FINE ART ARBY’S DEWEY’S Michelle Griith-Aresco ARBY’S PROPERTIES LLC DISCOVERY SQUARE INC. ARC PNEREPA001 LLC DISTINCT President, Rick Griith Properies ARENA SPORTS BAR DIVINE CREATIONS ART CLUB OF ERIE DOCKSIDER TAVERN Bill Scholz ARTS COUNCIL OF ERIE DOLLAR GENERAL Co-founder, Radius CoWork ATTORNEYS AMORIELLO, SCHROEDER AND MANSMANN DOMINICK’S 24 HOUR EATERY AVALON HOTEL & CONFERENCE CENTER DOWNTOWN DELI