West Transit Village

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: Mayo, City of Rochester, DMC

Contact: TBD ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; DMC EDA ; Mayo Clinic

Potential Collaborators: Diversity Council

Related Projects

Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Intercultural Center, Rochester (Creating a 21st Century Community Space) ; LINK - Bus Rapid Transit ; Riverfront Small Area Plan

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Housing

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Economic Development, Housing, Recreation & Open Space, Transportation

Level 2:

DMC Impacts:

Heart of the City, Discovery Square, UMR and Recreation, Central Station, St Marys Place

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Building, Planning, Programming  

 Extracted from November 2021 DMC Board Meeting Packet

References: 

What is Transit Hub

Video Clip of West Transit Village Sept 2022 DMCC Board Meeting

 Watch Full Clip

September 2022 DMCC Board Status: NTH to run a developer selection process with Mayo

City of Rochester Receives $84.92 Million Federal Grant for Transformative Link Bus Rapid Transit Project

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.

2024 - 2027 Transportation Plan 

2023 - 2026 Transportation Plan: The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG) has released a draft of the 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), for a 30-day public comment period. 

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations. 

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development