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9b. Attachment A �W �rW� Smart Growth America .�� �■�� Mal<ing Neighborhoods GreatTogether Proposal to Accelerate Ramsey County and East Metro Strong To: Jonathan Weinhagen, Saint Paul Area Chamber of Commerce Will Schroeer, East Metro Strong From: Geoff Anderson, Smart Growth America Date: July 17, 2015 Following our discussion last week, SGA proposes to collaborate with ARC and East Metro Strong to assist the City of St. Paul and Ramsey County, under our Knight Foundation-funded program "Revitalizing downtowns and other regional economic centers for the triple-bottom line." The objective of the program is to help policy makers understand the emerging realities of the new economy, and pursue strategies for economic revitalization that will enable their communities to attract and retain talent, expand economic opportunity, and create a culture of engagement. We propose to conduct two workshops: One for St. Paul (with Roseville and Maplewood); the other for Ramsey County communities outside the city (or, perhaps a subset from a specific corridor within the County). 1. Preparing for economic revitalization in the Larpenteur Avenue corridor. A one-day training workshop for leadership from the cities of St. Paul, Roseville, and Maplewood, tailored to elected officials. The goal would be to generate ideas preliminary to creating a vision for the corridor which joins St. Paul and the two neighboring municipalities. 2. How to Position Ramsey County communities to benefit from new trends in real estate and development. A one-day training workshop for leadership from the 17 Ramsey Co. communities, tailored to elected officials. Each workshop would begin with presentations on the keys to revitalization of downtowns and economic centers in the new economy of the 215t century. This includes such factors as demographic shifts and changing preferences, their implications for business location decisions,