<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Hi Mindy-</span><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When you say " I asked our City about changing the way the booths were placed to create a 'walk-way' between the brick and mortar stores and the booths, but I was told this was impossible because of the need to get emergency vehicle access."</span> I would think thee is a way to set this up to accomplish both goals- open storefronts and emergency access. We are looking at the same idea in Stayton, and even if the booths are placed a bit off-center to allow store access AND and acceptable emergency access lane it seems doable, though not yet proven by us.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Interesting discussion and very timely for our situation.</div><div><br></div><div>Steve Poisson</div><div>President, Revitalize Downtown Stayton</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 4:52 PM Downtown Bend, OR <<a href="mailto:downtownbend@gmail.com">downtownbend@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hi Guys,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks so much for all of your responses. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Rob, our roles is to advocate for the needs of our stakeholders (building and business owners within the EID), so we have no role in helping promote events run by private event companies and hosted in our downtown district. We gathered sales data from several businesses of various types over the past 5 years and it clearly shows that for retail businesses, event days are 30-85% down in sales. For coffee shops (and some restaurants) this isn't the case, but eating establishments only make up 30% of our Downtown Businesses, so even if events are successful for all of them, it still is the minority of stakeholders gaining a positive benefit from Class 3 events in Downtown. We made three classifications of events (Class 1 - events w/o street closures, Class 2 - events with street closure and no booths (parades, races) and Class 3 - events with street closures and booths). Class 3 events were the only ones that showed a negative impact, based on the data we gathered. Class 1 & 2 events showed a positive impact on business sales regardless of the type of business. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Westly and Darrin, I asked our City about changing the way the booths were placed to create a 'walk-way' between the brick and mortar stores and the booths, but I was told this was impossible because of the need to get emergency vehicle access. How did you guys get around this?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Also, do any of your organization receive impact fees when events take place in your district?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thank you, everyone, for your help in broadening my perspective! </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail-m_6762783911989386054m_-4245453533588164520gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">Mindy Aisling</font></div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">Executive Director</font></div><div dir="ltr"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">--------------------</font><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div title="WISESTAMP_SIG_a0c8802ae076e26a85147578be5f21bd" style="font-size:small"><table style="max-width:600px;direction:ltr"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="max-width:470px;padding-bottom:10px;margin-bottom:8px"><tbody><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="470" style="width:470px"><tbody><tr valign="top"><td style="padding-left:10px;width:10px;padding-right:10px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><img src="https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1-ao1XqSWKmxVF5_gQGs_gthlRITrrtw_&export=download" width="65" height="96"> </font></td><td style="border-right:1px solid rgb(69,102,142)"></td><td style="text-align:initial;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(100,100,100);padding:0px 10px"><div style="margin-bottom:5px;margin-top:0px"><b><font style="text-align:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Downtown Bend Business Asso</font><span style="text-align:initial;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ciation</span></b></div><font size="1">Talk or Text - 541-788-3628 <a href="http://www.downtownbend.org" target="_blank">www.downtownbend.org</a><br>916 NW Wall Street in Downtown Bend Oregon</font><br><table width="470" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="width:470px;margin-top:5px"><tbody><tr><td style="color:rgb(141,141,141)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1"><span style="display:inline-block"><i><br><div style="text-align:center"><i style="text-align:initial">We are a nonprofit committed to increasing </i></div><div style="text-align:center"><i style="text-align:initial">the vitality of Downtown Bend.</i></div></i></span></font></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="margin-top:10px"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr style="padding-top:10px"></tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><br></td></tr></tbody></table><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:53 PM Rob Dennis <<a href="mailto:bcddirector@gmail.com" target="_blank">bcddirector@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div dir="auto">It’s my understanding that one of the roles of your promotional committee is to help business find a way to make money off of those events like that. No two communities are the same so I don’t know how to do that in Bend, but I bet there’s a way for your downtown businesses to organize a retail event specific to what’s closing the street down. </div></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:08 PM STUART Sheri * OPRD via OMS_MANAGERS <<a href="mailto:oms_managers@listsmart.osl.state.or.us" target="_blank">oms_managers@listsmart.osl.state.or.us</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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