NEWS FLASH: Do you know of an organization or group (including your own) that has been involved in Economic Development in Rainier Beach? Help us update our information on the progress and challenges related to these priorities over the past year. Information you provide will help inform the next Town Hall Meeting in January, where we will set priorities for 2010. Just enter your observations as a comment at the end of this page. Thanks!
See most recent updates here.
Overall Goal – RB Coalition supports RB residents in the revitalization of our business community and builds self-sufficiency by educating residents and business owners about worker supports. In addition, RB Coalition builds on traditional anti-poverty programs by helping low-income families achieve greater economic security and stability through asset development programs and services.
2009 and Beyond – Priorities identified at 2009 Town Hall Meeting
To help monitor and track throughout the year click here and enter any activity in Rainier Beach that is responses to these priorities
- Make Rainier Beach an empowerment zone via the experience of Sage, LELO, and CADA
- Cleanliness/Beautification via pride in neighborhood (specifically garbage cans)
- Capitalize on existing and emerging transportation projects i.e., Link Light Rail, Metro Buses and streetscapes
- Activate the parking lots at Saar’s/Rainier Beach High School
- Sustain local businesses – provide jobs to local residents
- Co-op that is local and resident focused
- Engage in asset building activities for /through residents and youth
- Hire local contractors for development projects
Economic Development projects to keep our eyes and ears on
- Henderson Street Project (City of Seattle)
- Banner Project (SEED)
- Impact Family Village 7720 Rainier (Urban Impact)
- Rainier Beach Gateway – Sculptor Project, Signage etc (SEED)
- Southeast Arts Council (SEED)
- Rose Street Apartments (Housing Resource Group)
- Rainier Beach 2014 Neighborhood Plan “Beach” Square: Commercial Core Revitalization –one of the three plan cornerstones (RB2014 Stewardship Group)
- Douglass Arms Redevelopment (Seattle Housing Authority)
- Neighborhood Plan Update (City Council, Dept of Neighborhoods)
- Incentive Zoning (City Council)
- Rainier Beach Merchants Association 2009 Goals (RBMA)
- Rainier Beach Community Club (J. Marley)
Economic Development Partners
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WHAT’S MISSING? Add your comments below.
Here is what we’ve heard so far from our partners on initiatives launched or continued in 2009 related to our Economic Development priorities:
+ Letters of support for developers
- Urban Impacts affordable housing project Impact Family
- Village – 7700 Rainier Ave
- Seattle Housing Resource Group affordable housing project
- Rose Street Apartments – 8124 Rainier Ave
- Case Management and Design Urban Village Boundary expansion at Henderson
+ Rainier Court Development – Seattle Housing Authority –
South Shore School (BEX II) – Seattle Public Schools
+ The Truth Center and Metropolitan Seattle Urban League Personal Financial Literacy workshop –Your Money and Your Credit
+ Rainier Beach Merchants Association 2009 Activity Neighborhood Street Fund Proposal:
- Continue Mapes Walkway connection south to Rainier, with pedestrian scale lighting, landscaping and clear delineation of path along the Safeway parking lots and across the driveway (from 2008 SE Transportation Study).
+ Replace the current vegetation with low maintenance plantings and landscaping. Provide educational signage about the watershed and the habitat it provides.
+ Membership development: Grant from the City Office of Economic Development to hire a consultant to prepare a membership database.
+ District Clean up and Beautification Secure additional garbage cans.
+ Secure funding for renovating and beautification of the Mapes Creek Walkway District Identification.
+ Participate in SDOT’s Gateway project to add signage that enhances the district.
+ Secure funding to improve the Thistle Street intersection on Rainier Avenue to showcase signage placed in that area
+ Build RBMA membership and relationship with the schools.
- Plan an event that corresponds with the opening of the Link Light Rail station and showcases the Rainier Beach business district, such as using the new Plaza at the corner of Rainier/Henderson for entertainment on that day
+ Neighborhood Planning Update Advocacy
We are developing similar progams and projects for our economically challenged kenyan Youth and Women to initiate income generating development projects to supplement their incomes and improve their way of living.
If you would like to support kenya development projects please contact us
Kenya Voluntary & Community Development Project
our website
http://www.kvcdp.org
E-mail:info@kvcdp.org