Commercial Development Committee
Southwest Partnership
July 23, 2019
MINUTES
Introductions
Approval of June Minutes—Troy made motion to approve and Catherine second
Subcommittee Updates
- Facade
- Katz building close out – painting finishing up
- Tony will provide photos
- W Baltimore
- Focused on all neighborhoods for commercial committee fundraising committee—went through all the goals and discussed potential values ($160-500k for gap financing)
- One added item was beautification and streetscaping
- Sent out notes for review and will create document to fundraising committee explaining why and for what
- Next: will go back to West Baltimore St focus, but have teams with tasks; next meeting may be august 9th pending confirmation
Project Updates
- Littlepage’s Furniture Store – Bikkle Table announced intent to lease; 5 different eateries over the next 2.5 years, but starting with eatery, bakery, etc — timeline spring 2020
- Q&A:
- Liquor license underway
- Potential hours of operation 5pm-1am
- Estimated employment – about 60 ppl
- 1,200 sq ft
- Q&A:
- 1500 W Baltimore St
- Lord Baltimore
New Business
- Frieda: corks and cocktails – scrap bmore. Moving over from federal hill August 9th
- Kim lanes update
Old Business
- 1100 Wicomico hosting Baltimore innovation week — Oct 9th BIW19 and Technicaly ; 300-400 people, looking for lunch options
Questions
Adjourn–Catherine made motion to adjourn and Troy second