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Council Member Marte inquires about SPaCE Block Association's role with Canal Street businesses
1:10:37
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Council Member Christopher Marte asks Emma Culbert about the SPaCE Block Association's historical role with restaurants and bars on Canal Street. Culbert explains the association's approach to working with local businesses since 2006.
- SPaCE Block Association has been active since 2006
- The association has both welcomed and opposed various restaurants and bars
- Most businesses in the area have signed stipulations agreements with the association
- Culbert mentions signing a stipulations agreement with Le Dive in 2021, but expresses concerns about how things have progressed
Christopher Marte
1:10:37
Yes.
1:10:37
I'll just ask one question.
1:10:39
Emma, are you still on?
Emma Culbert
1:10:44
I am.
Christopher Marte
1:10:45
Can you talk about the role that space has, historically with restaurants and bars on Canal Street?
Emma Culbert
1:10:52
Yeah.
1:10:53
I mean, so we are a slightly larger block association, although I live directly on Canal Street, in that immediate area.
1:11:00
We have been a block association, since 02/2006, and we have both welcomed and thwarted many, restaurants and bars in our neighborhood.
1:11:12
Almost everybody in our neighborhood has a stipulations agreement signed by us.
1:11:17
We are not as many block associations just try to shoot down every, you know, anybody who's seeking a liquor license.
1:11:23
That is not at all how we've been how we have operated.
1:11:26
And we actually signed a liquor license or rather a stipulations agreement with John and Ledive in 2021.
1:11:36
Although I have to say that I did not have a a warm and fuzzy feeling at that moment that things were going to go well, and it has absolutely proven to go as negatively as I anticipated.