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DMC Plan Reader
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Official DMC Plan which frames the vision and execution of the public spending on the project.

2020 DMC Plan Update

 


 

DMC Original Plan

DMC Plan

dmc docDMC Corporation has approved the 2015 DMC Plan and Framework. The official version of the plan can be found on the DMC website.

The plan is a 694 page document which can downloaded as a 100MB PDF file.

To make it easier for online access, we have separated the monolithic PDF file into subject sections. Readers can click on the link to access the topic of interests.

  1. DMC Plan Introduction
  2. Goals
  3. 1.3 SUMMARY OF MASTER PLAN AND DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS
  4. Market Summary and Program Statement (Summary Section 1.4)
  5. Section 2.4 Metrics
  6. DMC Pillars
    1. DMC Plan Draft Section on Health & Wellness (Page 83 - 86)
    2. DMC Plan Draft Section on Commerce & Science & Technology (Page 87)
    3. Retail, Dining and Entertainment
    4. Hotel and Hospitality (Page 101)
    5. DMC Plan Draft Section on Learning Environment
    6. DMC Plan Section on Sports And Recreation
    7. DMC Plan Draft Section on Livable City
  7. DMC Administration
    1. Section 2.0 DMC Capital Investment Plan (Phase 1)
    2. Section 2.3 Implementation Plan - DMC-CIP/Finance Plan (5 Years)
    3. Section 2.4 Metrics, Measurements and On-going reporting
    4. Section 3.0 Applying For and Evaluating Projects/Funding
    5. 3.2 Evaluation Criteria for Projects
    6. 3.3 Policies Consideration
    7. Operations
  8. Transportation Subplan
    1. Transportation Introduction
    2. Transportation Authority Proposal
  9. DMC Places
    1. DMC Key Places
    2. DMC Heart of the City
    3. Discovery Square
    4. UMR and Recreation
    5. DMC Central Station
    6. DMC Waterfront
    7. St Marys Place
  10. DMC Sustainability
  11. April 2015 DMCC Resolution - Adopting the Development Plan
  12. Appendix
    1. Reader Introduction
    2. DMC EDA 2016 Workplan
    3. DMC Development Guide
  13. DMC Dashboard

 

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DMC Related Status/News

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May 2025 DMCC Board Meeting Reports (10-Year Milestone) (May 29, 2025)

May 2025 DMCC Board Meeting Report 10-Year DMC Looking Back   ... Read more ...

Discovery Square Shared Lab Infastructure (May 28, 2025)

Biolabs as shared space partner A shared lab space for a community of like-minded entrepreneurs associated with one or more academic research partners ... Read more ...

DMC Equitable Economic Development (May 24, 2025)

May 2025 DMC Board Meeting Report Feb 2025 DMC Board Meeting Report: Community Co-design, Equity Alliance Topics, Community Connection & Capacity Building, Pitch Event, Targeted Business Metrics, Affordable Housing ... Read more ...

Minnesota Main Street Economic Revitalization Program (May 24, 2025)

May 2025 DMC Board Meeting Report (1) Third Phase Grant Ann; (2) Second Phase Grant; (3) DMC Announces First Recipients of Main Street Grant Funding 30 Businesses ($1.6M) ; (4) Launching of Main Street Grant  ... Read more ...

West Transit Village DMC Board Meeting (May 24, 2025)

May 2025 DMCC Board Meeting Report Feb 2025 DMCC Board Meeting Memo PB reporting re Jan 6 City Council Meeting "A final plan for dividing a 14.1-acre Mayo Clinic parking lot into developable sections is expected to be reviewed Monday by the Rochester City Council. The site, being dubbed “West Transit Village,” sits between Second Street Southwest and Cascade Lake. It is currently used as a Mayo Clinic employee shuttle lot, and Mayo Clinic plans to construct a 2,500-stall parking structure." ... Read more ...

Downtown Waterfront Southeast: 6th Street Bridge (May 18, 2025)

May 2025 City Council Updates May 2024 Online Survey for Community Inputs and Asian Community Inputs Outreach ... Read more ...

Persons Experiencing Homelessness (April 02, 2025)

Rochester Police Department: Persons Experiencing Homelessness (PEH) Resource Impact Report City and County Updates on Unsheltered Homelessness  ... Read more ...

Link BRT a milestone project for Rochester (March 28, 2025)

DMC Feb 2025 Board Meeting Memo  City of Rochester Receives $84.92 Million Federal Grant for Transformative Link Bus Rapid Transit Project LINK Progress Report to City Council  Rochester eyes TIF to support Transit Village, Public Parking March & May, 2025 Update per PB Reporting ... Read more ...

Record Mayo Clinic DMC investment seen as other private development drops (March 28, 2025)

  Annual Report to DEED Prep  PB Reporting " Overall private investment related to the Destination Medical Center initiative bounced back in 2024, but non-Mayo Clinic development continued to decline in the DMC district for the sixth year." ... Read more ...

Chateau Theatre Upkeep (February 16, 2025)

Feb 3, 2025 City Council Proceedings

PB Reporting   ... Read more ...

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DMC Reports
Explanation

Official DMC status statements or positions that the public may hold accountable toward the execution of the publicly funded portion of the DMC plan.

September 2015 DMC Board Status

2016 EDA Budget

September 22, 2015 DMC EDA: Read more

August 27, 2015 DMC Board Meeting

August status includes:

DMC Agency Reports:

DMC August 2015 Status Report and Meeting Material

PB headline: DMC EDA cuts budget to $3.9M for 2016 ...

Since the July meeting, the EDA board has polished its work plan, a document that details specific actions and objectives the agency will pursue. Fine tuning the work plan was a key step in refining the budget request, said Jeff Bolton, EDA Board chairman.

"Our objective is to attempt to really understand what it is you're trying to accomplish with these dollars. We want to make these dollars be as accountable and deliver as much return on the investment as we can,"  Jim Campbell (DMCC Board member) said.

What does DMC mean for Rochester's visitors?

"We don't have a competitive market analysis for visitors," Bill George, DMCC board member,  former Medtronic Corp. chairman and CEO, said Thursday.

August 26, 2015 DMC EDA/PB: Read more

July 30, 2015 DMC Board Meeting

July 30, 2015  DMCC Meeting Material:

Status report

Agenda and backup info

July 30, 2015 DMC EDA: Read more

EDA Status Report 2015-06-01

Eight Points Plan from Lisa Clark:

1. Creating a formal process for developers to approach and work with both DMC and the City of Rochester. 
2. Development of a formal monthly report for the DMC Corporation Board of Directors and the public.
3. A new Transportation Working Group held its first meeting bring all affected parties together. 
4. Website redesign is underway in two areas: more user-friendly, and developing a portal for investors and developers to get the information they need from anywhere in the world.
5. Community Engagement: “Partnerships are critical, Clarke said. 
6. Airport Engagement
7. Workforce Development: Elevating opportunities and satisfaction for employees across several industries throughout Rochester.

June 03, 2015 DMC Blog: Read more

DMCC's 6 Focus Items

The 6 Areas of concern identified by Tina Smith (May 4, 2015 PB Editorial print version) are:

  1. Social service and health impacts of the community
  2. A desire for energy and sustainability
  3. Making sure the process is inclusive (eg. reaching out to women- and minority-owned businesses)
  4. Addressing changing transportation needs
  5. Preserve historic elements of the city
  6. Meeting affordable housing needs

May 06, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more

Misc Community Status

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City of Rochester 2026-2027 Budget Planning (May 27, 2025)

May 27, 2025 City Council Study Session ; Apr 28, 2025 City Council Study Session Materials

Press Release: The City of Rochester is beginning its 2026-2027 budget process and invites residents to learn more about the factors shaping the City’s financial outlook.

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Rochester Public Library - Master Plan Study (May 19, 2025)

Community Survey Request 2025-05-19

Rochester City Council Study Session 4/1/42025

Post Bulletin Reporting

 

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2024 Housing Coalition Investments (May 17, 2025)

2024 Investments:

$8,491,000 supporting 11 projects totaling over $77M

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NAACP, Rochester Chapter (May 03, 2025)

Rochester NAACP Statement on Racist Hate Incident Targeting Black Child in Public Park

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Community Health Improvement Plan Update (May 01, 2025)

Press Release: Residents invited to share input on Olmsted County’s health needs 

 

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Audio Visual Technology Upgrade for Government Center (April 25, 2025)

Mar 18, 2025 City Council Meeting Proceedings

PB Reporting Apr 21, 2025

 

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Early Childhood Resource Hub Launch (April 25, 2025)

Apr 2025 Updates

The Early Childhood Resource Hub, a collaboration between C2C and IMAA, aims to connect Olmsted County families with young children to various resources and services.

 

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CAAL Ignite Grant (April 23, 2025)

2025-04-23: Grant Application Status

The Coalition of Asian American Leaders (CAAL) is thrilled to announce the launch of CAAL Ignite, a new grant program offering $10,000–$15,000 to individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses in Minnesota’s Asian American community.

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Rochester Mayor Communications (April 21, 2025)

 Apr 2025 Mayor's YouTube Rochester Voices Channel  

Mar 2025: City of Rochester Mayor Kim Norton to attend the National League of Cities (NLC) 2025 Congressional City Conference in Washington, D.C. from March 8-12, 2025.

City of Rochester Mayor Kim Norton to attend the U.S. Conference of Mayors (USCM) 93rd Winter Meeting in Washington, D.C.

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Olmsted County M.O.V.E. News (April 21, 2025)

Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity (M.O.V.E.) team attending IAP2 Midwest Spring Conference

"Building relationships of trust with community members"

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American Lung Association Contract Opportunity (April 17, 2025)

Community Organizing Consultant Compensation Contract for Services: Up to $4,000 per month (12-18 months)

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Public Comments
Explanation

Public comments that voice educated positions on the status of DMC.

Good intention should be backed up by good process

I am aware that the various anchor initiatives in Rochester have similar goals and that the organizations/teams driving these initiatives have great intention to collaborate.  I am also familiar with the difficulty of teaming and collaboration. That's why alignment of goals, indicators, strategies and measurements is highly valued in best-practices such as Lean 6 Sigma.  While leaders of the various organizations and projects have publicly declared their commitment and intentions to collaborate and to align goals, efforts and measurements. 

Beyond the rhetoric, where is the "beef"?

October 04, 2015 openBEAM.net: Read more

Follow the DMC Information Technology Budget Money

If I were a few years younger and had more ambition to prove there is money to be made in IT solutions: cloud computing, big data, knowledge management. And if I had the bandwidth in selling and marketing products and services, I would look into the DMC IT infrastructure's scalability and reach.

I would pay close attention to the 2016 DMC EDA budget lines to do with IT, which is casually referred to as server and maintenance contract, website design. The fact is there is a general set of community enablement IT needs that require more thorough review and applying concepts such as data integration, real time aggregation, business process enablement.

September 23, 2015 openBEAM.net: Read more

Paul Wilson: Why there is a need for the HRA levy

Our community has long recognized the need for safe, decent, affordable housing options. Olmsted County's housing market is working well for renters and home buyers with higher incomes, but there is a crisis of need for people with moderate or limited incomes who are seeking affordable rental or for-sale housing.

August 08, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more

A curious of way to report progress and status -- how much of the 2.8 million has been spent?

In the July 2015 DMCC Board meeting, the project manager in me at first was glad to see a succinct template being used to report progress to the DMCC Board and the public. 

Then I looked at the report template a little closer and noticed its rather unusual way of reporting project progress.

Rather than reporting on milestones, deliverables and schedule in the form of project management 101's  work breakdown structure, it shows progress in terms of how much money is being spent on each of the major tasks--as if spending money is equivalent to progress made and objectives met. 

 

August 03, 2015 dmcBEAM: Read more

Construction site diversity needs watchdogs

"People are watching," said community advocate Jackie Johnson last week during a meeting with local lawmakers. Hosted by the newly renamed Council on Minnesotans of African Heritage, the conversation shifted from equality in grant funding and housing to employment opportunities.

"We haven't seen minorities out there working," Johnson said while discussing the issue at the city-county Government Center, which seems nearly surrounded by construction as Olmsted County courthouse and Mayo Civic Center renovations continue.

July 27, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more

More indications that a systems approch to acheive growth is required

We all know that within Rochester, DMC is a real big deal. And one of its components is to build out the Education District of UMR. The recent article on PB showing a troubling trend of enrollment decline is another reminder there is fragility in one component within the system. In dealing with fragility, you can either let the component itself solve its problem, in this case, have UMR on its own address some of the issues such as student recruitment pool expanding to larger scope.  Or, have a systems approach of mobilizing the DMC-global market reach vision to have a bigger impact on the attractiveness of UMR.  

July 11, 2015 dmcBEAM: Read more

Can social agencies keep pace with DMC growth?

"The social services discussion of this expansion is still in the 'early stages.' That is unacceptable. It needs to be considered now....We have to protect against this indifference," Olmsted County District Judge Kevin Lund said.

June 18, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more

Al Depman: Affordable housing czar can address growing need

Our czar/advocate can keep the public abreast of the progress of the DMC, EDA, J2G and Rochester's future comprehensive plan, while monitoring private development initiatives via city council and county board decisions. Findings can be reported to us via the Post-Bulletin and other local media on a regular basis.

June 16, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more

DMC administrative costs need to be revisited to lessen burden on taxpayers

... in the May 23 Post-Bulletin that Destination Medical Center administrative costs are projected to be "about $21 million over the next five years" with Mayo expected to chip in $585,000 per year toward those costs. It is shocking that the administrative costs will be $4.2 million each year. This amount of administration seems enormous.

June 01, 2015 Post Bulletin: Read more