Category Archives: Economic Expansion Committee

The NDDC-led initiative on In-fill and Redevelopment moved to the next phase as the Four Economic Development Partners agreed to present the work plan to their boards for formal adoption. Board and staff members of the NDDC, EDA, and Chamber of Commerce, along with a staff member of the NEC, joined by a number ofContinue reading “Four Partners Move Forward on In-fill and Redevelopment Work Plans”

The NDDC hosted its first Block Head Gathering of 2009 yesterday. The topic was Economic Expansion. More specifically, the discussion focused on obstacles to and tools for In-fill Development and Property Redevelopment. Pictured here are NDDC Board Member Jeff Hasse and former NDDC President Mary Rossing, catching up on local news before the meeting started.Continue reading “Block Heads Discuss Economic Expansion”

…for a bit of my personal obsession: artistic business signs. Yes, there’s a new one…and it went up just in time for ArtSwirl. Bart DeMalignon and Jim Bohnhoff put up this cool “Art” sign on the Grezzo Gallery Building. Local art sign critics Chip DeMann and Maggie Lee seem to approve. Okeh, now back toContinue reading “We Interrupt Your Regularly Scheduled (ArtSwirl) Programming…”

The Northfield Downtown Development Corporation (NDDC) has been hearing about rising commercial property taxes for several years. Building owners have detailed the increases they’ve received and the economic challenges that these increases have produced. The NDDC took action. The NDDC spent time reviewing these increases and analyzing their causes and effects. We identified three keyContinue reading “NDDC Makes Steady Progress on Commercial Property Tax Issue”

At this morning’s meeting (March 13), the Northfield Economic Development Authority voted to join the Northfield Area Chamber of Commerce and the Northfield Downtown Development Corporation in recommending that the City Council fast track a policy change that will enable the expansion of sidewalk dining this summer. The Chamber of Commerce Board had voted atContinue reading “EDA Joins Chamber and NDDC in urging the City Council to try sidewalk dining this summer”