Across our city and all of our five um districts that we track our development in.

I am happy to report that nearly 400 million dollars has been invested.

I won't steal any more of the staff's thunder, uh, except to say thank you to uh the City of Dayton Economic and Development staff, the planning staff, and the housing staff, as well as our partners at Citywide Development, who really are on the ground working the strategies that help us attract investment across our entire city.

So without further ado, I will turn it over to Veronica Morris to start off the presentation.

Good morning, mayor commissioners, city managers, and city staff.

Um as city manager DC stated, this is our 20 by 26 commission update.

What we will highlight in this exciting presentation are those projects that were completed in 2025, in addition to those that we are currently and actively working on in 2026.

Um sharing the stage with me will be my colleagues from planning neighborhoods and development, Tony Kroger, our manager of planning, in addition to Sarah Geist, who is our manager of community development, and in the audience today is Emily Crow, who is the deputy director of planning neighborhoods and development.

Development update overview.

Today's update, once again, is looking at the activities over the last 12 months.

We're looking at the work that reflected that reflects the goals of our adoptive plans throughout the city, and focusing on our key partnerships, which is driving more dollars into our neighborhoods, addressing citizens' concerns, and finally city dollars that leverage private and other public funds.

Geography update, the development update by geography.

In 2025, 39.4 million was invested in West Dayton, North Central or Northwest, 13.5 million, Northeast, 250 million, which also includes development at the airport.

Southwest, Southeast, 1 million, and greater downtime age 7 million.

So as you can see, investment has happened through our purpose map out of our city.

West Dayton completed projects in West Dayton, again, totaling 39.4 million includes DuPont polymers on Nicholas Road.

Again, one of our silent partners every year.

They completed a project in 2025 that totaled $19 million in private investment, created five new jobs, and retained 82 full-time jobs.

German Town Crossing, a great housing redevelopment or development at site on Germantown, 16 million of public-private investment.

The city committed 2.5 million.

GDPM was our partner, as well as citywide development was also in the audience, and that helped us create 50 units of Morgan's catering.

The exciting thing about Morgan's catering and fashion remedy, the two I'm going to speak to.

It talks about our small business development.

Oftentimes we talk about the great things that are happening that are of the larger companies that invest, but it's also our small businesses that employ neighborhood folks that also allow us to help people realize their dreams as small business owners.

So Morbuse Caterers, he was a food truck, he's a food truck owner who decided to open a brick and mortar in Wright Dunbar.

The City of Dayton invested $30,000 for him to realize and help leverage $250,000 of its own private investment to open a full-scale restaurant that also includes a bar indoor and have you seat.

That's your remedy is a small boutique also located in Wright with 150,000 of private investment.

The city invested $35,000 into this product.

So this is $35,000 in private and West State Development Trust Funds to help we can help the small business owner and create and support the retail investments that's happening along the right dunbar business corridor.

And then finally the booth bank.

They have an awesome public space that was $4 million of investment happen.

The City of Dayton contributed $723,000 to make this happen.

And again, it's a food base continued to commit into West State, the city of Date, the Dayton region, but more importantly, some of our most vulnerable residents.

Active development projects in West State.

Dayton Children's West Urgent Care and the parent of a child with a chronic illness.

This is so exciting.

Really seeing this here of full service urgent care that will house pulmonary functions, X-rays, and other much needed medical assistance to those children in 45417 who have a very vulnerable and have a lot of health issues bringing in the city.

The groundbreaking will happen on Monday the 13th.

The city will be contributing 250,000 towards this costume venture.

Miami Chapel DeSoto Bass rebuild 70 units of affordable housing, 16 million in private investment.

Again, one of the great partnerships with GDPM.

One of our favorites is Zion Cultural Center.

So we have secured through a public process, a developer for the former Zion Cultural Center.

They are asked, they're thinking of investing 38 million dollars in 1000 units of mixed income housing.

We have gone through the plan board process.

We have worked with the developer.

They have actually engaged with the community.

So we are excited to announce this as one of our new projects for 2026.

And again, the Dayton West High on the corner of Third and Abbey.

92, 9.2 million of ARPA funding will be used to for the new construction of a much needed West police station in West State.

North Central.

North Central saw $13.5 million of investment in 2025.

3.1 was when Te Hoover Place was invested at Hoover Place Lost.

And this was the restoration of 10 units of a world procedure house.

The city committed 1.5 million in our buildings.

Sarah, if you want to speak a little bit about this project, I know your team helped manage it.

Okay, it's working.

Good morning, everyone.

This was through ARPA, and it built upon some of the other renovations that have been out at the Hoover Senior Campus.

There are four or five projects out there that all have very similar names.

And these are single story lofts that are built to go alongside the additional lofts that are already out there, as well as the 144 units in Hoover Place.

So this is another 10 units added to the campus that just helps add senior housing and much needed development.

800,000 of ARPA funds were used to again help us demolish and remove fire piles.

This strategic demolition helps in us affording or affording us the opportunity to help provide lots for housing, future housing, and also other commercial development.

And then of course, North Main Street upgrades.

Much needed pedestrian crossings as well as some street calming helped to realize this project.

Current active projects in North Central.

Sure, thank you.

Veronica.

So you may have seen under construction in the Five Oaks neighborhood, uh, home flats and forest, which is an old orchard and forest and homework.

Um is going to result in 260 new workforce uh housing units, which we know from various housing studies.

Um city put worth $2 million to help support the initial phase of that product, but of course the total investment is well over 70 million dollars.

So it's out there under construction right now.

Um it went through a thorough engagement process and planned for city commission approval uh as well.

And it was a uh engagement process that we're found to be thorough and ultimately they were very much in support of what's happening out there now.

Um, okay, Cheryl also talked about uh land banks welcome home uh program, I think from the city perspective.

Most important is that you know the city was able to provide most of the the lots uh which these single family homes, affordable single family homes will be uh constructed or have been constructed, including those in the Dayton Pew Triangle.

So that was our private contribution.

The Windsor Group continues to redevelop the Commodore Apartment Complex on the corner of Grafton and Grand.

This $8 million project will yield 43 units of market rate housing again in North Central.

And then finally, Longfellow School is not dead, it's yet alive.

Um, we continue to work with them.

They were just awarded historic tax credits, and the city will be providing $2 million of already committed funding to this $40 million project, which will ultimately yield 125 units of least income senior housing.

Northeast in Old North Day completed in 2025 was 250 million dollars of investment.

Jovi Aviation finished their project at the former post office building located at the airport.

That was six million of private investment.

They have a long-term lease with AB with the airport to stay and create the 35 jobs and retain the 35 jobs that will help position them for the larger project yet to come.

Ronald McDonald House was completed thanks to the great partnership again with citywide, 29 million dollars of public-private investment.

The city provided 500,000, and it is an amazing building to help families who are in crisis.

Cedar Nevada, as you all know, last week was there.

Another 94 million dollars of public-private investment with 2 million coming from the city, 180,000 new jobs, 108, 180 new jobs.

I thought about Joby and that 2,000 jobs and 134 retained.

So we continue to be excited about the investment that Sierra Nevada makes at the Nathan International Airport.

Thanks to the Matthew Foundation, 108 million of dollars of private investment went to create in the creation of the Dayton Children's Behavioral Health Center, which is also an amazing project and building and service for families in crisis.

And then finally, for million place, kinship housing was the brainchild of citywide.

They did a lot of work with along with our community development team to yield 26 affordable multi-generational housing units.

1.2 million of city funding went into this project for an overall investment of 13 million.

Current active project at Northeast, 32.1 million.

4.5 million of public private investment.

The city's providing 200,000 in funding, 115 new FTEs to top to 223 retained.

The public housing project, again, speaking a little bit more on it later.

3.1 million public private investment, 1.5 million coming from URL, 19 units of market rate, single family housing.

This is an exciting one for Sarah.

She, when I asked her about it, she got excited.

So I'll let her explain it.

Sorry, the button's not working on mine.

Um Beacon Place is a permanent supportive housing option.

Um that will be run by MVHO.

Um, and it will provide approximately four 40 small scale units for individuals who are formerly homeless and are experiencing uh varying levels of disability.

Um, this will create both a community space where they will have um the ability to have case managers and um medical provisions on site at the community center, and then the hub of housing around it so that individuals can achieve independence in a supportive environment.

Kettering Fields redevelopment, 15 million of public investment will be made, is being made at Kettering Fields.

We like dirt in development.

So you will see dirt pictures throughout because it actually shows where dirt is moving and that work is begun.

We decided by catering field and this redevelopment is actually sparked the interest of several professional soccer league teams.

And so development has been working with recreation to possibly secure a U.S.

sale team here.

So again, small businesses, sometimes small businesses make real go around.

$1 million in 2025 is an application value with the Gianinos Pizza.

I thought it was in my family on this, but um's pizza, in addition to the glaucoma and cataract building, and why that's important to us is it's another example of adaptive reuse.

The practice used to be the South Date Pediatric facility.

They sold, and another, you know, medical practice came in and set up shop without our need, need of public assistance, other than for building permits.

So this is again just those small businesses that keep amenities in our community, helps build vibrancy, and why they're important for us to realize.

GNE knows invested 500,000 in private investment, 10 new FTEs, and this is their second date location.

They currently have a location on East Third Street.

And then again, Garcom and Cataract Group, $500,000 of private investment investment, 20 retained FTEs because they moved from another location.

And then there's a private medical practice.

And the public investment was just for our system.

Active Southeast projects on Maine.

I don't know if anyone else is excited about the about the elevator shafts, but I get excited about the elevator shafts.

City funding 7.8 million, 300 new FTEs.

The University of Dayton Recreation, Rec Plex Expansion, went through there in February.

Amazing work is being done.

Full service medical facilities for students, not athletes, but for students, X-rays, nurse practitioners, etc.

$18 million of private investment, and again, expansion of the recreation facility.

Dutch Rose Coffee, again, one of Tony's favorites, $3.9 million of private investment, a drive-through coffee house located on Brown Street.

And then finally, Liberty Center School.

Why this is Liberty School?

This is very important because this was a seven-year process.

And sometimes we talk, we think development happens overnight, but it doesn't.

The pictures may show the framing, but our team, um, here in the shout out to Keith Klein.

Literally worked with this group for seven years through zoning and plan board, making sure that we had phase ones done, making sure that we had a public process that we facilitated the transfer.

It took us 11 years to realize this 10.7 million dollars of private investment, 15 new FTEs, 25 retained, and what we're getting is a vocational high school for seniors.

Just to build on that very quickly, this is the only site in Stadium that houses youth build, um, which is a federally funded program that allows youth the chance to get into construction, gain certifications, and then also qualified businesses for federal funding sources.

That tweet so bringer downtown.

City funding was two million, a yield first floor retail, which our first floor fund is working with a lot of those small retailers to get them in and settled, and 93 rooms for a Hilton Garden flag.

We had family staying at hotel recently, and they were very impressed with the flag.

And they are currently working on hotel pre-development for the new hotel, proposed hotel on site.

So 431 East Third Street, as it was announced the other last week.

Mattel Foundation will be housed in that along with two other companies, 13 million of public private investment, 1.5 million coming from the city, 60 net new jobs to the city.

Webster station blasts, 3.13, 31.7 million of public private investment.

We only put 50,000 into that for sidewalks, 110 units of market.com.

239 Wayne Avenue, the St.

Paul Church Redevelopment, again proposed 22 million in public investment, and the creation of a booth hotel and retail space.

And then finally, center city redevelopment, 110 million of public private investment, city funding 10 million, and creation of 210.

I'm sorry, 217 affordable housing.

And that's coming along with us.

So again, our snapshot.

387.7 million of private investment, 19.1 million in public investment yields of 20 to 1 ratio for 2025.

Total housing units completed, 86 affordable, zero market rate, and jobs place was 230 new jobs, 236 per tank.

Snapchat for 2627 plan projects.

And then this is what it looks like from city share and present in percentages to January 25 through December 25.

39.4 million in West State, 3.2 of city commitment yielded 88% of the city's total share in those investments.

But a lot of that was infrastructure with much needed infrastructure improvements in addition to strategic demolition.

87 million was a total completed investment of completed projects in downtown.

Southeast was 1 million, we put nothing in there.

City share was zero percent.

And then Northeast and the airport, 250 million of public private investment.

City investment 3.7 million, 1% of the city shares when two spells products.

So mayor commissioners, I I want to just take a moment and emphasize a couple of things here.

And I think what is um a couple of things to point out the number for the total investment in town and downtown is typically larger because it's a stronger market and the projects are of greater scale and higher costs, right?

Um but you see our percentage and participation is very low uh with regards to supporting our economic engine for the whole city.

Um North Central, the 76% is also while there was infrastructure, there was also a lot of um incentivizing for the housing projects that we drove through ARPA and through our our work in North Central.

So that um speaks to us meeting housing developers gaps so that they can successfully put projects through.

The other thing that is obviously pretty pronoun pronounced here is the southeast area having a million dollars of private investment and no public investment in.

There are a few factors here.

Um Southeast is our largest, is really our highest performing market bedroom community.

So one, the neighborhood is very stabilized and doesn't need a lot of the neighborhoods, don't need a lot of support, like you know, in some of the other parts of our city.

But I think what also calls out here is that you know we really need to dig in and look at some of that um uh business corridor activity to continue to support and bolster amenities for that neighborhood for the for the bedroom communities there, right?

Because I think that there, you know, those um uh business districts have um been around a while, and you know, where we can sit down and really start looking at providing some support um of uh rejuvenation.

I think would be uh welcomed.

And uh I know that uh commissioner Joseph has been having some conversations with regards to that effort.

Um, so I want to point that out as you know, as well as you know, Southeast has you know, long been our most stabilized highest market, you know, bedroom communities, but we have to we have to be proactive there as well.

That's all I wanted to add there.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Community place making way finding neighborhood plan development, community engagement, community environmental justice discussions, strategic portal improvements, and implementing here and neighborhood planning.

Saturday um April 11 is our neighborhood conference.

So hopefully all will be there and everything.

So I will turn it over to um Tony, who will talk about our housing updates.

So I would like to take an opportunity to update you on some of the housing programs, the data recovery plan.

You know, it's always kind of funny to me.

We we bring all these agreements to you with our partners at the city commission.

There's a presentation, there's there's there's uh you know, a news story and handshaking, and then the stuff kind of quietly happens.

I think you know it's important that we circle back and talk about you know that we need to be accountable for these things after that that occurs.

And so I'm excited to share with you some updates.

Um, this isn't all of the housing uh related to the data recovery plan, but it's those that are uh the housing improvement program, which was uh an award that has been overseen by the planning division with various partners, of course.

So um ultimately the housing improvement program uh amounted to about 15 million dollars and various uh degrees or various ways to support housing in the city of Dayton, impacting approximately 757 uh housing units either created or improved or stabilized.

Um, and then there's the massive leverage that is uh counted for uh with the recovery plan funds ultimately over 300 uh million and in development.

So let's just talk about some of the the data recovery plan dollars and what they've uh amounted to, right?

Because I think it's important we remember that it took investment from the city and that uh what has occurred just from that and what's been leveraged, right?

So data recovery plan funds went towards the pre-development at Towns of Right Dunbar, which of course we've all seen on West Third Street and her success that's occurring there looks fantastic.

Data recovery plan and funds uh assisted in uh three new uh single family homes being constructed in our partners at habitat for humanity.

Those have been um completed and those are occupied.

Um data recovery plan funds went towards a housing um repair home repair program.

So owner occupied homes uh primarily in our target areas that were um you know identified by the city commission, and so quietly our great partners at County Corp were out there um doing really important essential improvements to stabilize our main housing stock in the city.

Right, we've seen the uh completed homes out there in the World Creek neighborhood.

And of course, one of the interesting perspectives of the new new homes in the Wolf Creek neighborhood is that you know, 10-15 years ago, we were out there with our partners at the land bank removing absolutely bright lighted structures that were never going to be occupied again, had to remove those, acquired the property in that process, and those very parcels now have brand new homes on them.

Sorry a lot of market now.

Data recovery plan funds went toward essential pre-development work at the flats at South Park, probably phase three.

So um recovery plan funds went toward um improving soil conditions, uh, this kind of public uh activities like sidewalks and utilities.

Um, and so that essential investment from the city approved by the city commission will facilitate and really enable the construction of ADA marketing to put it with our single family or town homes and that are part of it.

Uh particularly in our target areas identified by the city commission.

So these are vacant structures that probably were in that demolition pipeline.

So this diverse structures from the demolition pipeline saves them.

These are unique structures in the city that can't be replicated or duplicated, brings them back to life in a market rate uh sales transaction and funds are also going towards the aforementioned city uh rehabilitation.

Uh the the recovery plan funds specifically are going towards soft costs and uh materials.

And then this year uh we will uh with our rental partners at Miami Conservancy District.

Uh implement the levy improvements in the Wolf Creek neighborhood that will help connect the Wolf Creek neighborhood with its namesake water course, and now the levy is not the barrier that it is uh currently once implementation occurs and is actually an amenity, an open space amenity connect those residents to the water course.

materials and then this year uh we will uh with our rental partners at Miami Conservancy District uh implement the levy improvements in the Willow Creek neighborhood that will help connect the Wolf Creek neighborhood with its namesake water course and now the levy is not the barrier that it is uh currently once implementation occurs and it's actually an amenity and open space amenity want to help us connect those residents to the water course construction this year will occur at the point at Kiwi Valley uh 19 attached single family units and that's being supported with recovery plan funds as well so before I um end I I have a terrible have forgetting to this I want to give credit to Ellen Seiser who's behind me who is actually the the project manager on a number of of these ARPA data recovery plan uh program so she should be recognized for that okay now I'm done but I suppose we're ready for questions thank you very much very exciting umward to my colleagues for any comments Commissioner Beckham Your Honor thank you to the staff as always uh for uh this incredible set um accomplishments and investments it's clear that we are leveraging uh private investment with uh very strategic city investment so this is very very exciting I I've always looked forward to this work session even when I was staff even more now that I'm commissioner but uh couple things uh I also want to thank the partners uh who helped make all of these investments possible obviously we can't do this work uh without their confidence and their partnership so very much want to make that known citywide and so many others uh who are here today um first um want to just mention uh you know on the housing fraud it's it's very clear right that uh we're making really strong strides in terms of increasing our housing stock and that is uh really really encouraging to see specifically um I I recently went to um one of Habitat for humanities uh home dedications right so so to know that uh the Liberty School uh is completely uh getting a new location that will house that program because you've built is really the young people that are uh working with Habitat to build these new houses that that synergy is just very very cool and I think is going to have continued uh impact small business investment as well um should not be discounted right I know there's some major projects in this work session but uh I know that you know our small business community really is the lifeblood um of our city so I I'm very improved by by those as well um I did want to specifically though in terms of some of the downtown investment Webster stations specifically and of course right you know I am you know very excited about uh every single project that has been uh brought forth today but uh in terms of Webster station I was made aware and received some inquiries just about the uh final facade uh of the building um it seemed that uh there were folks in the community that uh felt that the uh renderings did not match the final product uh in terms of that uh development and uh you know I I just want to raise that and just try to better understand what the process was and um you know what actually occurred in terms of uh how final decisions were made based on the way the building was supposed to look and the way the building uh looks as of today right so the um uh yes so it it's true that the plans that were reviewed by both uh building and zoning and also our board of zone of appeals those plans and renderings uh are not reflected in what's out there now um but when you ask when find the decisions and how fun final decisions are being made from a city perspective those are really even still occurring so for example our zoning administration is talking with the Windsor group now saying hey this is different than what we saw are there ways to you know possibly improve or mitigate you're it's still it's still going to look similar to how it looks right now but are there at least ways to get closer to what we had seen that can ultimately result in a um either compromise or something that everybody can say we can live with that so that's actually still ongoing and it may result in an and for example a visit to our board yes and anything can happen there if they'd like to take that chance um so we'll see how it plays out but you know it's yeah still a great project love to see the housing units out there so I know but um yeah that that's where we're at so it's still kind of playing out okay thank you for that sure Mr.

Yeah, we can show that.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Fair.

Yeah, thank you.

Um echo my colleagues' comments to all involved, exciting to see these projects come up.

It's exciting to see on Maine come along home on Broadway, and it's exciting to see the it wasn't included here, but the development was the street from Edison is now under under project.

Um, so that's exciting.

Um I was curious.

Um I think was there a project left out on the North Central because it didn't total up to three point or 13.5.

Um slide eight.

Yes, we left out so the the top picture is the loss that was what the um Hoover placing your loss.

I forgot to add so on the left was also a part of the Hoover project, and I just left that part off of it.

Should have been two lines, and I just left that off.

So yes, thank you.

So I apologize for that.

I just want to get all the pictures there.

Yeah, this is the information's assistant.

All right, so I assume there wasn't one more project as as um Sarah alluded to, there's like four different layers of the Hoover complex.

So yes.

Um you know, next month we go to DC with the fly-in.

Um this is a broader question than uh the report.

Underneath the report is our strategies, right?

Um, we have some talking points on the broad economic development strategy for the city as a whole, and for the strategies for downtown as well as the like I really appreciate your comments on the southeast, both of your comments on the southeast, particularly given you know, we turned down that ride aid the car washing the ride aid, but the question that the neighbors have is if not that, what and how what are we doing to um to get investment there?

So will we get some overview of strategies so that we can collectively advocate?

We can put a summary together of all the strategies that we have you know that we have been deploying that you know we've shared in the past, we can put that in uh one thinking.

That'd be great.

Thank you.

Okay, what sorry one um I think it goes all the way back to the housing plan.

There was a uh a table in there that had projecting needs for market rate, affordable and subsidized housing.

And there were some gaps.

I know we're taking some time.

That was kind of a broad regional look at what our needs might be.

There was some talk about trying to make that very specific as we do this development.

Is there a way to kind of update that table so we kind of know where the gaps are going forward?

You know, how many marker rate housing are we behind, how much affordable housing are we on, how much subsidized housing we are behind.

Commissioner, we are tracking all of that information.

We're in the process of updating that housing study so that we have because it's several years old now, so we will have fresh data um probably by mid-summer, and we'll be able to put together um the update to the commission once we have that study done.

Thank you.

I don't have a lot of questions.

I'm just really excited about this, especially goes to what uh Commissioner Bagman was talking about the return on investment.

That's remarkable.

20 20 to one in one case, 11 to 1 on the other.

Uh that's really good.

I um I was just looking at this collectively.

I just cannot believe how much investment has happened in a short period of time in these neighborhoods.

Uh during downstream right most of my time.

Um it's really been transformed.

Talk to me about I'm just thinking back to the HUD uh program.

Are we still in gazing that or is that something that's kind of expired?

So the HUD choice, um, you know, we uh we went after it one time, didn't get it.

And the last few times there was no way for us to compete um or to successfully compete, I should say.

Um, and uh I'm looking over at Caitlin because of citywide is really helping to lead that HUD choice.

I don't if you have something um to share more elaborate, Caitlin.

I'd invite you to thank you.

Um I would say, you know, GDPM, I think has continued.

I think as Shelley said, Manager said, we made the decision not to continue applying because the math just doesn't work with the program, it doesn't work well in Dean.

But Greater Data Premier Management has continued doing the work.

So the housing plan that was in the um renewed Miami Chapel plan, which came about as a result of Hedgewise, they have continued moving forward on implementing that plan and they're multiple stages then.

And so that new housing you see on Germantown is the implementation of that plan.

The you know, Dayton Children's West Pediatric Center, one of the main things we heard from residents when we did it was we need wellness, we need pediatric care, we need a medical home.

So I think so we have worked as partners to continue implementing the plan and looked for avenues and funding sources that are not the federal program because that it just wasn't a good fit.

But I would say, you know, I think a lot of that work has been done.

We've actually been kind of trying to work on an update to show what has happened since we did that plan.

Because I wasn't that number like 60 million dollars was again and I don't know if I did my math perfectly.

We're pretty much there now, and then bringing the boys and girls club 25 million online.

Pretty much at 60 million, right?

Anyway, uh good work, appreciate it and uh look forward to what happens in the future.

This is from our work.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner, Commissioner Justin.

Thank you, Mary.

This is very exciting.

I love I love these days.

Uh like you say, it's always functionality, everything is happening in one place because we see it in pieces of commission as a roundabout.

We see certain projects to see it all.

So thank you to you all for that.

Thank you, our partners.

This is not uh this is not uh something you can do by yourself.

Development of this magnitude makes a lot of help.

So we really appreciate everybody pitching.

I just want to sort of point out that uh our focus from the beginning of ARPO was on meeting very carefully going on talking to our residents within uh all of our stakeholders and I mean just looking at what the target state just mentioned there's little housing, look at the medical care, the good jobs and the things that our folks are uh talking to us very often about.

So I appreciate uh that attention to detail, appreciate carrying through all the promises that we've made for our company.

Um also thank you to the city manager for our ongoing conversations about uh these focus bodies coming on with people city house.

Thank you.

Thanks, Mayor.

Thank you all to my colleagues to the staff.

This is great work, very exciting.

So to Commissioner Fairchild's point, like how do we make sure that we get this message out?

Is it um uh videos, some some club videos, whatever have you that we can have, please?

Um what what we do is um public affairs obviously tapes this, they can break it into different segments, they send it out to our next door, they send it out, they they heavily socialize it in our social media.

We follow up with print articles, you know, we try and you know, follow the law, the rule that you know we had to put this in front of people seven times before they actually consume it.

We will also make sure that we pull some of this um snippets into social media bytes that you all can distribute so that you're you're helping to you know carry the message and promote all of the great investment that's happening across the city.

Great.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Um just two quick questions.

Uh very excited to see the Zion Culture Center.

That is very exciting.

That that corner, that coordinator is going to be awesome, it's already shaping and forming right now.

Um so with that, I want to pull on that just to tap it.

The the Veterans Memorial Project, where are we on that timeline?

Um, so that project, um, the city funding in the Medal of Honor Park is um both CDBG and general fund.

The CDBG has been fully expended on the planning, development, design.

Um, they are working on obtaining the marble.

It is coming from Italy.

Um that's in process, and then they are continuing to do the fundraising for the ongoing maintenance and some of the other beautification pieces.

Um, but that is underway currently.

We are about to put forth an amendment to extend the timeline on those expenditures because some of the shipping and some of the fundraising is taking a little bit longer given some of the changes that we've seen with international trade.

Exactly.

Yeah.

Thank you for that, Dave.

And then the other question is design for design and culture center, understanding that it is just recently been a really in that timeline.

Hypothetically, or estimate, if you will.

Yeah, well, the most of states are the ones that feel the most secure and telling you, which is that next week on plan board, they will they will be at this development, which is being brought forward by Magnus Capital Partners, which is the same developer doing up with Latin Forest and Final Hosts.

They will be a plan board on Tuesday for a plan development zoning map amendment.

Right.

That goes well, it will be in front of the city commission about a month later.

Okay.

They intend to make application to the Ohio Housing Finance Agency in June because it's a workforce funding.

That is a necessary component.

We've been asked about that timeline.

You know, didn't provide any dates of when someone would be the ground service that we don't intend to sit around on this.

So don't think this is going to languish as a property in its current state or worse.

That's the most I can tell.

So I you'll see it.

It'll be in front of you as a zoning map amendment.

We will do the public hearing in a month or two.

So yeah, that's what I can tell you.

Thank you very much.

And I'll just add it'll also be in front of you guys because we have to convey the property.

So we're in the process of doing structural engineering reports, finalizing the plant revisions and those things that are needed.

So it'll come before you all twice.

So you will actively be engaged in this process.

The project.

Again, a great word.

I am I drive past the Commodore, the Windsor Group project.

It looks phenomenal.

I mean, they really put great uh emphasis in that project.

They took their time.

It really lights up that corner.

So kudos to the staff and to the partners to Commissioner Beckham's point.

Like this is about leveraging partnership, collaboration and the Magnus Capital Partner.

Um, I I think they really truly are.

Um, and I'll go out on Linda say in this, but they are a model group on how you really start partnering and collaborating with the city, the community partners, the residents, like they really laid the groundwork in its shows.

Um I'm very excited to see a lot of that dirt movement.

So kudos to you all.

Thank you very much.

And thank you, Ms.

Dixtein is and this um Lofton, Mr.

Parlett for bringing this forward.

That's all I have.

And that's all we have.

So the rest of your day.

And thank you again, staff, for the excellent work.

Thank you.