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• Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Toolbox

  • When
    06/20/2019
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    10:15 AM - 11:30 AM
  • Location
    Breckenridge, CO

  TIF TOOLBOX: MAINTAINING SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS

  DCI Session at the Colorado Municipal League Conference in Breckenridge

  
  

  Downtown Colorado, Inc.'s team will be presenting at our partner, Colorado Municipal League (CML) Conference in Breckenridge. DCI's session will be: 

  
  

  The Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Toolbox

  Thursday, June 20 from 10:15-11:30 AM

  
  

  The Colorado Municipal League is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization providing services and resources to assist municipal officials in managing their governments and serving the cities and towns of Colorado. Visit the Colorado Municipal League website for more information and to register for the CML Conference. 

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• Mariposa: Urbanism Reimagined

  • When
    07/17/2019
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:00 PM (MDT)
  • Location
    Denver, CO

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  Denver’s host real estate market is creating opportunities and challenges and questions abound around affordable housing, community development, and how to maintain a place for all while costs steadily rise. Denver’s Mariposa redevelopment project aimed higher than the average 15% retention that redevelopment usually can muster, and their success is in the numbers with over 50% retention for this innovative approach to redevelopment and transit. The Congress for the New Urbanism and Downtown Colorado, Inc. are excited to showcase Denver Housing Authority’s Mariposa, which includes affordable and market rate housing in a transit oriented development setting.

  
  

  WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

  From Developer to Designer, Musician to Foodie, Mariposa has something for all! Urbanism Reimagined will consider the diversity of stakeholder in an existing neighborhood in a hot market and dive into the hows and whys to thrive. As Denver Housing Authority dives into Sun Valley, the Mariposa Project is the blueprint to guide what works and how to improve!

  
  

  SPEAKERS

  Public, private, and non-profit partners come together to talk about the

  process, projects, and the people that make Mariposa so unique!

  • Shaina Burkett, Denver Housing Authority
  • Jami Duffy, Youth on Record
  • Brandy LeMae, Workshop8
  • David Griggs, Art Soup
  • Katherine Correll, Downtown Colorado, Inc.
  • Theresa Wynn, Congress for the New Urbanism - Colorado Chapter

  
  

  URBANISM REIMAGINED AGENDA

  5:00 PM OPEN HOUSE & NETWORKING

  Join organizers and the Mariposa family for an open house session that

  showcases the Mariposa project boards, visioning processes, and provides a

  tour of the space activated by Youth on Record. Youth on Record will bring

  the fun and the music with a locally grown music performance by the Sun

  Power Program.

  
  

  5:45PM IMAGINE MARIPOSA PANEL

  Mariposa represents the future of Denver Housing Authority projects focused

  on engaging, enlisting, and energizing around culture, community, and

  cuisine to build community and economic development. The panel will

  consider the engagement process, built environment, and the activation it

  takes to keep a community in place, while removing blighted conditions in

  an urban setting and a hot market.

  Speakers include:

  • Shaina Burkett, Denver Housing Authority
  • Jami Duffy, Youth on Record
  • Brandy LeMae, Workshop8
  • David Griggs, Art Soup
  • Moderated by Katherine Correll, Downtown Colorado, Inc. and Theresa Wynn, Congress of the New Urbanism - CO Chapter

  
  

  6:15PM MARIPOSA WALKING TOUR

  Tour the community with project leaders to dive deeper into the integration

  of ideas and the built environment.

  
  

  7:00PM NETWORKING

  Join a Beer Urbanism Event at Renegade Brewery that highlights the

  community and economic impacts of Mariposa and the Sante Fe Arts

  Distrtict in attracting and supporting local creative industry.

  
  

  Thank you to our event sponsors!

  Congress for the New Urbanism – Colorado

  Denver Housing Authority

  Downtown Colorado, Inc.

  Terracon

  Youth on Record

  Wilson & Company, Inc. 

  
  

  
  

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• Colorado Springs Downtown Development Mobile Tour

  • When
    08/01/2019
  •  
    9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
  • Location
    Colorado Springs
  • Spaces left
    54

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  Want to know more about Business Improvement Districts (BIDs), Downtown Development Authorities (DDAs), and Urban Renewal Authorities (URAs)? Could one or more of these be a tool to help with downtown development in your town? Why sit in a conference room to learn, when you can visit  in person?!

  Colorado Municipal League (CML) & Downtown Colorado, Inc. (DCI) are pleased to announce our second annual financing mechanism mobile tour. We will visit the BIDs, DDAs, URAs and partner groups in Colorado Springs to showcase what how these tools work, what they have accomplished, how they work with others, and what their plan is for the future. Join CML & DCI has we invite our member cities and towns to see some Colorado Springs projects and talk to the officials and business owners involved.

  
  

  
  

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• SMALL TOWN BIG IDEAS - DOWNTOWN INSTITUTE FOR BUSINESS

  • When
    09/10/2019
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Manitou Art Center (MAC) 513 Manitou Ave, Manitou Springs, CO 80829

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  SMALL TOWN BIG IDEAS

  Manitou Springs Downtown Institute for Business

  Across the country and the world communities are realizing to the power of the creative economy and experiential business. Manitou Springs has been supporting creative entrepreneurs before it was trendy, and in partnership with Downtown Colorado, Inc. (DCI) and APA Colorado will share the tools, resources, and networks essential to building the systems to feed the business ecosystem.  

  Join us for this innovative day in collaboration with the Manitou Arts Center and Start Up Colorado Springs!

  Registration included lunch and refreshments. 

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