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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Ellen Huntingdon [mailto:ellen.huntingdon@opbc.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 18, 2017 11:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> oms_managers-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Florence Community Looking for Project Advice<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Good morning everyone,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our Florence Downtown Revitalization Team is working with the city on an economic development project that seeks to revitalize a long-term vacant building that could be the shining jewel to our downtown area.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Our original intention was to focus on bringing a brewery to our little community (Sometimes I feel like Florence is one of the only towns in Oregon without a brewery of any sort, totally unacceptable!
<span style="font-family:Wingdings">J</span>). After a meeting this morning with our economic development coordinator, we’ve come to the conclusion that we would like to focus on revitalizing the space in question to be a community co-op, with shared, rentable
space for a farmers market, brewery, distillery, etc. on the ground floor and public meeting spaces for entrepreneurs, business owners, and innovators on the second floor.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We are looking at “Sprout!” in Springfield as a basic business model. Has anyone else had a similar experience with either making a co-op space like this, or simply bringing the community together to revitalize a large project? (The Bandon
Cheese factory comes to mind). Specifically, we are wondering about:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How to court prospective business owners<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How to attract private investments<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">What type of funding did you use (grants, urban renewal, fundraising?)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">How to market this type of a project<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you so much in advance for everyone’s help. Have a wonderful day!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">-Ellen<o:p></o:p></p>
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