rv 2014: eds and meds- leveraging anchor institutions to build community
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Eds and Meds: Leveraging Anchor Institutions to Create Community Educational institutions and medical facilities are engaging in regional transformation. Traditionally, these organizations have been rather inward looking, examining growth through the prism of available real estate. That approach is changing, with new collaborative relationships geared towards potential growth in the organizations and the region. Already dominant employers in their regions, these organizations are anchored to and invested in their surrounding neighborhoods. Learn how the meds and eds are stretching outside their comfort zones to transform their neighborhoods through collaboration. Hear how they are engaged in planning high-quality, direct and attractive public transit services to connect institutions, job centers and adjacent neighborhoods. Finally, see how recent collaborations spanned sectors -- what strategies worked and what didn’t. Moderator: Ian Druce, Director, Head of Canadian Business, Steer Davies Gleave, Vancouver, British Columbia Brett Wallace, Senior Supervising Planner, Parsons Brinckerhoff, Charlotte, North Carolina Ellen Watters, Co-Leader, Central Corridor Anchor Partnership, St. Paul, Minnesota Jamie M. Kendrick, Project Planner, Maryland Transit Administration, Baltimore, MarylandTRANSCRIPT
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Rail~Volution 2014Eds and Meds: Leveraging Anchor Institutions to Create Community
PROVIDENCE -THE “CREATIVE CAPITAL”
Source: City of Providence
World-renowned institutions of higher educationRegional centers of healthcare and researchStrong creative class of artists and entrepreneurs
Dense core of employment, medical, educational, and cultural facilities
Providence’s unemployment rate of 11.2% is nearly twice the national average
Tremendous redevelopment opportunity from the relocation of I-195
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Serves 45,000 daily RIPTA riders at Kennedy Plaza and is a 5-7 minute walk to Providence Station
Serves theaters, cultural venues, the Central Library, the Convention Center, and the Dunkin’ Donuts Center
Serves Brown Univ., the state’s second largest employment center, a historic residential neighborhood, and primary commercial street
Links the new Brown Medical School to RI Hospital and College Hill while serving development in the emerging I-195 District
Serves nearly 10,000 people at the state’s largest employment hub in the Hospital District
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STREETCAR OVERVIEW
Source: City of Providence 3
Serves 45,000 daily RIPTA riders at Kennedy Plaza and is a 5-7 minute walk to Providence Station
Serves theaters, cultural venues, the Central Library, the Convention Center, and the Dunkin’ Donuts Center
Serves Brown Univ., the state’s second largest employment center, a historic residential neighborhood, and primary commercial street
Links the new Brown Medical School to RI Hospital and College Hill while serving development in the emerging I-195 District
Serves nearly 10,000 people at the state’s largest employment hub in the Hospital District
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STREETCAR OVERVIEW
Source: City of Providence 4
PROJECT TIMELINE
2006-2007• Transit 2020
Coalition
2008-2009• Metro Transit
Study
2010-2011• Providence Core
Connector Study
2012-2014• Building support
2014• TIGER VI grant
received ($13M)
2018• Anticipated
opening date
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Brown University
Rhode Island School of Design
Johnson & Wales University
Rhode Island Hospital / Hasbro Children’s Hospital
Women and Infants’ Hospital
URI / Rhode Island College Nursing School (future)
Community College of Rhode Island
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EDS AND MEDS ON THE ROUTE
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“THE LINK” – I-195 REDEVELOPMENT AREABefore removal of I-195
$610M project to relocate I-195
• Address safety• Replace aging infrastructure
• Reduce traffic congestion• Create new land for redevelopment
Source: City of Providence
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“THE LINK” – I-195 REDEVELOPMENT AREAAfter removal of I-195
• 20 acres of new land for redevelopment• Reconnection of city street grid• Focus on job growth in knowledge-based industries, including life sciences,
health care, research and development
Source: City of Providence
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“THE LINK” – I-195 REDEVELOPMENT AREASupport for redevelopment
• I-195 Redevelopment Commission established
• Development Framework created
• New Zoning Code adopted
• Parcels are “pad-ready”
• Currently accepting proposals for development
Source: City of Providence 9
NEW MEDS AND EDS DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE ROUTEBrown University
• Growth in Jewelry District to complement main College Hill campus
• New Jewelry District developments
o Alpert Medical Schoolo Ship Street Squareo Administrative offices
College Hill
Jewelry District
Source: Brown University 10
NEW MEDS AND EDS DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE ROUTESouth Street Landing (opening 2016)
• Rehabilitation of former power station• Univ. of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College shared nursing program• Brown University administrative space• Apartments for graduate, medical, and nursing students• Space for start-ups and small technology-based companies• Retail space
Source: University of Rhode Island 11
NEW MEDS AND EDS DEVELOPMENT ALONG THE ROUTEJohnson & Wales University
• Purchased additional property in Jewelry Districto Planning new academic building on former I-195 land
• Renovated existing building to house new Physician Assistant Studies program
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WHY SHOULD THE INSTITUTIONS CARE ABOUT STREETCAR?• Direct impacts to institution
• Connectivity• Operations• Attractiveness
• Broader impacts to region
• Mobility• Economic development• Livability
The benefits of this grant to the metropolitan region would extend well beyond the transportation sector. It would enhance the knowledge economy corridor in the Jewelry District, promote economic development, create jobs, improve the environment and the quality of life for thousands of people.
-Russell Carey-Executive Vice President, Brown University
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INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERSHIPS
• Institutions have participated in planning from the outset
• Opportunities to reduce or eliminate private shuttle services
• Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital contributed to local matching funds for planning grant
• Proposed funding plan includes a special assessment district on tax-exempt institutions
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WHAT’S NEXT?
• Establish roles and responsibilities for institutional partnerships
o Design
o Outreach
o Marketing
o Operations
• Refine and confirm participation in funding
o Review potential means of participating
o Obtain firm commitments
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