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REINVENTING COMMUNITY 4., Envisioning Mound Building community and building sense of community are two different things. In 1991, the city of Mound began a major downtown revitalization effort and managed to do both. — —ound city leaders in it's current state,just does not realized that downtown work." redesign and business The group quickly acknowl- development were edged that building a community and important ways to breathe building community are two different new life into their city's things.Building a community of historic downtown area. streets, buildings, parks, and infra- - `The City Council en- structure requires heavy equipment couraged community involvement and a variety of permits. Building by appointing a task force of corn- community—the common bond munity volunteers. The city also between people, the feeling that • hired a coordinator, and named the project Mound Visions. city residents aren't just household units but are part of a larger group, community the sense of place—that's a differ- Buildingent task altogether. But Mound The team developed a number of Visions also acknowledged that revitalization strategies including building physical community and promotional materials, a design building a sense of community go model,business recruitment strate- hand in hand. gies, and a downtown redevelop- Task force members were asked ment concept plan. Soon after the to brainstorm. To think imagina- group began meeting, their think- tively. To come up with a plan ing began changing. A big picture that captured the imagination of started emerging as the group real- the general public, and invigorate ized the project's possibilities. not just the site but the entire "Mound Visions has evolved £r downtown redevelopment. As quite a bit. Initially, no one I' .f:. Mound Visions looked for ways thought it would be as ex- to ensure Mound's future, tensive as it is," said they turned to Mound's not- Mound Visions Coordi- so-distant past. ✓�! nator Bruce Cham- - berlain. "We real- i I. bit ized that down- ` -_ .. Concept plan for redevelopment �' town Mound, - �' of Mound's downtown retail area. I 1 - 11 I `I; 1 Y ' y , r T `i t 4 I i �-� I + . • F .. I I . { 1 ' II I �., . i il � � � , li ,► � Fj t „y i , ,,; +' �•{ <1 ®re4 a Tsai a t as F 7l''! {9f -, 'l- t IFt 45�(Rl'F'.4�-'F!<&i1MG1 i..�,4�YlY- �r, { _ • k 11 7, 1 hep - A . tiLd 1:.�iJ 1 { 1 Ise,�'�' M r i►■9'�1r'IE ./iF 11!g d ( r" A • ', did-_.2m {IIIIii ti«....,..... r rl � k ..;� � �`F Asx: 'y ilr 4.`... Ili? , si i . 1.r t it ,1 4?jE,r,. - 4 tel 4i, , 114 a Li ,�,C7 fl .. • . i �f'1 S h. �� r'h' uk'. + i fe; f{_ 111 J U N E/J U LY 1 9 9 7 MINNESOTA CITIES 9