COMMERCE AND DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE
MONDAY, MAY 15, 2006
COUNCIL CHAMBER
Convened: 6:03
p.m.
Adjourned:
8:06 p.m.
Present were: Chairperson Councilor Michael C. Perotto
Councilor Philip P.
Palmieri
Councilor Joffrey
A. Smith
Also: Assistant
City Manager for Development Julie Jacobson
Development
Staffperson George Ciccone
Director
of Development Timothy McGourthy
City
Solicitor David M. Moore
Director
of Neighborhood Services Dennis Hennessy
Development
Staffperson Steve Bishop
City
Clerk David J. Rushford, clerk
6.
Communication
of the City Manager relative to the Task Force on Event and Convention
Promotion.
#34B
CM April 25, 2006
Recommend Accept and support the recommendations of
the Task Force on Event and Convention Promotion.
7. Communication of the City Manager
relative to the status of the Request for Proposal (RFP) for the North Main
Street Economic Development Strategy Area.
#8A CM April 25, 2006
Recommend Hold
8. Communication of Massachusetts Biomedical
Initiatives transmitting communication relative to Life Science Incubator
Company Start-up Activity and Economic Development Impact.
#51 CC April 25, 2006
Recommend File
Chairman’s Order request the City Manager to provide
the City Council with the number of jobs that have been created in Worcester
within the Life Science field.
9. Communication of the City Manager relative to the State’s New District Improvement Financing (DIF) Program.
#8C CM October 12, 2004
In
Committee February 16, 2005 – Held
Recommend File
10. Communication of the City Manager relative to how a District Improvement Financing Program works as a mechanism for funding public infrastructure and other public improvements in support of new private development projects in a municipality.
#8H CM January 11, 2005
In
Committee February 16, 2005 – Held
Recommend File
11. Communication of the City Manager relative to the CitySquare Project and the District Improvement Financing (DIF) Program – development of Lincoln Square and Washington Square using Jerome Wheelock Trust Fund.
#8B CM July 19, 2005
In
Committee January 25, 2006 – Held
Recommend File
12. Communication of the City Manager relative to the redevelopment
of Washington Square.
#8C CM April 4,
2006
Representatives
from BSC TerraSphere and RKG Associates appeared and presented relative to
Washington Square.
Chairman’s
Order request the City Manager request the Commissioner of the Department of
Public Works and Parks provide the City Council with an explanation of the
reasons why no access nor egress is proposed from parcels 1 and 2 directly onto
the roundabout that is to be Washington Square.
Recommend
Accept and support the recommendations in the Washington Square redevelopment
report. (Hold the item in Committee for informational purposes only)
13. Communication of the City Manager relative to an update on the
Union Station Bus Ports and the status of negotiations with Greyhound Lines,
Inc.
#102 CC October 4, 2005
In Committee January 25, 2006 – Held
Recommend File
14. Communication of the City Manager relative to the Administration’s
renewed efforts to market and to secure tenants for Union Station.
#8B CM February 14, 2006
Recommend File
15. Communication of the City Manager relative to Union Station
tenant interest.
#8B CM April 25, 2006
Recommend File
16. Communication
of the City Manager relative to various City Council recommendations for Union
Station.
#8C CM May 2, 2006
Recommend File
17. Communication of the City Manager relative
to Request for Proposals for commercial marketing and brokerage services on
Worcester Redevelopment Authority (WRA) owned property within the City of
Worcester.
#8B CM May 2, 2006
Recommend File
Recommend File