Brush Creek Community Partners DrillDown
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Transcript of Brush Creek Community Partners DrillDown
Brush Creek Overview an uncommon collaboration of businesses,
institutions, neighborhood, faith-based and community organizations and city agencies
dedicated to redevelopment of the Brush Creek Corridor as the location in Kansas City in which to live, work and play
Elmwood Avenue to State Line, 39th Street to 63rd Street, with a special focus on influencing the environment contiguous to the creek.
Brush Creek Overview
A CATALYST for assuring coordinated leadership among its diverse membership and spearheads the completion of programs mutually agreed by its members
SUCCESS due to active and inclusive leadership, careful planning, and proactive implementation of programs aimed at providing benefit and opportunity for all of its diverse constituents.
Major Projects Overview
Healthy Neighborhoods Initiative Influence indicators of neighborhood health Connect residents to the Internet Develop an interactive website Provide leadership development Pilot a micro-project to bring redevelopment
tools and resources to a targeted area.
Major Projects Overview
Build world-class, public facilities through an indoor and outdoor tennis complex
Revitalize neighborhoods and realize economic development Ivanhoe Neighborhood Development Strategy in
the area from 31st Street to Emanuel Cleaver Boulevard, Prospect Avenue to the Paseo.
Brush Creek Flood Control and Beautification Project, the Corps’ Bi-State Basin Study and other public investments.
Successes
Development of a community-based vision in the Brush Creek Corridor Land Use and Development Plan and credibly convening the community
Funding for the Brush Creek Flood Control and Beautification Project
A ten-year stream of tax increment financing revenue for the Ivanhoe and Blue Hills Neighborhoods for neighborhood improvements, including housing and infrastructure.
DrillDown Highlights
Population: significant undercount and population change is uncovered in Swope/Elmwood, Vineyard, Oak Park, Ivanhoe
Decline in Hyde Park is likely due to downzoning
Decline in South Plaza is likely due to reconstruction of Twin Oaks and other buildings during this snapshot
DrillDown Highlights
Average Income: significant informal economy uncovered, boosting eastside neighborhood incomes
Purchasing Power: density in those neighborhoods yields trade market target that was underestimated in the Census
Gentrification is evident in Hyde Park and South Plaza
Remarks
Questions?For More Information:
Brush Creek Community Partners4743 Troost Suite 200Kansas City, MO 64110-1727
Ph: 816-523-2991 Fax: 816-523-2281Carol Grimaldi, Executive Director, [email protected]
Dan Melton
KCUMA Coordinator
http://www.kcuma.org
