The City Center Renaissance Stakeholder Task Force has been charged with a planning process that incorporates past planning practices and Envision 2020 visions/action steps into a City Center Renaissance Plan. The plan will expand the traditional downtown area to include surrounding neighborhoods. The following are the designated areas within the City Center: Downtown Core, Five Corners and Old Main, Old Town and Washington Park, South Front Street and South Riverfront Drive, Sibley Parkway, Front Street Plaza.
In July, the City Council appointed a 27 member City Center Renaissance Stakeholder Task Force to review the City Center Renaissance (CCR) draft Plan and gather input. The Task Force kicked off the planning process in August 2006. The Task Force has addressed the following key planning principles/practices of the City Center:
Vision, Land Use, and Redevelopment Opportunities;
Transportation, Physical Environment, and Facilities;
Neighborhood Livability and Design; and
Organization and Financing.
Over the past year, the City has hired various subconsultants including I&S to look at concept plans, architectural renderings of new building facades, and traffic studies. The City of Mankato has since hired I&S to compile all of the previous work into a plan which has been presented to City Planning Groups.
