Approval of September Minutes
Nicole makes a motion to approve the minutes, Jane seconds, motion passes
Presentation:
- Staff – 1504/1506 RFP Responses
Guest Speaker:
- Councilwoman Porter – Update on Mt. Clare Shopping Center Grocery Store
- We have a grocery store!!!
- 4 grocers were engage and three fell through
- Jumbo Fresh family owned from Long Island New York
- First store in Baltimore
- No timeline for start of construction
- Leased is signed
- Full service grocery store w/ pharmacy
- Flagship store in Bladensburg(?) MD
- estimated timeframe to opening is 6-9 months
- CE: how long is the lease
- CWP: i think 5 years but I will confirm
- Owners are Latinx and will be offering latinx products
- CWP would like to convene an opportunity for the community to request the types of products we want to see in the store
- SK: are there plans for the other retail spaces?
- CWP: I am in talks with other businesses that I can’t disclose at this time but we are reimagining the shopping center
- Timothy M: how long have they been in business
- CWP been in business for some time in Long Island, will get more information to us
- Nicole: What kind of concessions and safeguards is the City putting into place to ensure the business is succesful
- CWP: raised 1.6 million as an incentive, have a public safety model that includes cameras inside and out, using a food pantry model along with the grocery for those who need it to help reduce theft
Elections
Goals/Priorities/Incentives for 2023
- Permit expedition with Housing Committee
- Permit taskforce
- Business Roundtable
- Business Highlights
- CHAP Historic District lead in a more equitable way
- Local lenders refusing to lend to Baltimore Street projects
- Showcase of businesses
- Vacant properties through tax sale
- Business directory
- Retail Study Followup
Updates
- Water Issues
- Pigtown Mainstreet Updates – Meghan
- West Baltimore Street/Capital Projects Updates – Carrie
- Innovation Works – Lamontre
