AGENCY TESTIMONY
Together for Kingsbridge vision plan and community engagement
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Michelle Lamberti details the Together for Kingsbridge vision plan and the extensive community engagement process that informed its development.
- The plan was created through engagement with over 4,000 community members, including workshops, surveys, tours, and meetings
- It reflects the community's values, ideas, and perspectives for the armory's redevelopment
- The city released the plan in August 2023, followed by a Request for Proposals in September 2023
- The process has generated many proposals for the armory's redevelopment
Michelle Lamberti
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The together for Kingsbridge vision plan, as referenced by council member Sanchez, was the result of an extensive engagement process with community residents, students, workers, and business owners about their vision for the armory.
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This plan captures all the feedback gathered during the process from conversations with over 4,000 people, which included over a 1000 participants attending 4 public workshops, over 900 survey responses, over 500 community members touring the armory, 9 community board meetings, 16 small group discussions, 3 public information sessions, and feedback from over 75 industry stakeholders.
0:09:32
The Together for Kingsbridge vision plan reflects the community's values, ideas, and perspectives, all of which we heard clearly during the engagement process.
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The city released the plan in August 2023, and together with the release of the subsequent request for proposals on September 22, 2023, sought proposals from qualified parties for the unique opportunity to redevelop and operate the armory and accomplish the city's goals of creating a financially feasible, thriving mixed use development that would reflect the guiding principles set forth in the vision plan.
0:10:07
We're excited about the robust engagement process done in partnership with the community, which has generated many great proposals for this amazing asset, an asset which will need all the investment it can get.
0:10:18
We look forward to the public announcement of a developer and working with council to bring a project through the Euler process.