Discovery Walk Co-designing

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Contact: Kevin Bright ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Mayo Clinic ; Mortenson ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; OpenBeam ; RSP ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Public Library ; Rochester Public Schools ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration)

Potential Collaborators: Lotus Health Foundation

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Discovery Square ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Square One ; Education, Health and Recreation Space (DMC UMR/Rec sub-district) ; Residence at Discovery Square (Third Ave Lofts Residence at Discovery Square) ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; Rochester, MN Transit Development Plan Update ; University of Minnesota, Rochester Master Plan

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Co-designing

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, OpenBeam, Recreation & Open Space, Vision/Identity

Level 2: Livable City, Technology, Discovery Square

DMC Impacts:

Discovery Square, UMR and Recreation

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Building, Planning, Featured  

2021-04-01

Justification

Details

Community Co-Design Concept

March 2021 Presentation

September 2020 Presentation

Discovery Walk Co-Design Session 3 Notes

DMC Discovery Square Open House

Framing the design points:

 Meeting material from Jan. meeting:

Macro and micro expected outcomes of the project. 

First pass at co-designer list -- Convening Co-designers

September 2024 DMCC Board Meeting with 2025 Workplan Breakout

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

November 2024 Selma Film and Discussions

2024 Recognition: $1K Scholarship: 2024 Rochester H.S. Graduate: Application and Nomination, Sponsorship and Donation support, Facebook photos of 2024 Mr. and Miss Juneteenth

C2C October 9, 2024 Summit

Presentation Slides  

Vision 2050 AI-Powered Interactive Survey LINK

Mayor Norton Memo to the Public

Results Based Accountability

Collective Impact: Spectrum of working together

Tech Support

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.

September 2022 DMCC Board Status: NTH to run a developer selection process with Mayo

City teammates providing an update on this work, specifically regarding legacy public infrastructure projects, Unbound, infrastructure investments and regulatory milestones.  

2024 ALICE  (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) Report 

Referendum to support: Strong Communities; Strong Schools; Strong Young People

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

2022 News Next chapter, summer programming: 5-K run; Narcan training partnership with Diversity Council. 

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

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