Gift Catalog for a Community

Gift Catalog for a Community

You can create a simple Gift Catalog for your community. The Gift Catalog can be a simple one page flyer, and a web site. You simply provide a way for a citizen who wishes to give a gift to the public a way to send money or real estate to the Village Clerk. The following is sample language for your own community gift catalog. Adjust the gifts to fit your community, and add your own community logo and graphics. Please feel free to use it.

Citizens can give gifts for public improvements for the people of their community. The gifts will enhance the community while providing a way for citizens to memorialize a loved one. The following are some possible gifts and estimated costs.

Trees $ 350
Park Benches $ 500
Landscaping, Evergreens, Flowers, Trees $ 750
Ornamental Lighting $ 2,500
Sculpture and Outdoor Art $ 20,000
Jogging, Bike and Nature Trails $ 100,000
Parks and Nature Preserves $ 700,000
City Hall Park Improvements with small fountain $ 900,000
Streetscape & Beautification $ 2,000,000
Swimming Lagoon Pool / Skating Rink $ 3,000,000
Farm $ 5,000,000

Fountains for the Illinois River

A water fountain similar to the one in Geneva, Switzerland would enhance our image, and market our natural beauty. Few outsiders know that our region is on a Great River and Lake. A large fountain would help to market our community, and would be a lovely enhancement of our fine city.

The Scoop from My Favorite Economist

The Scoop from My Favorite Economist. Not good news.

This Week's Financial News Employment Gains Remain Under Threat Economic growth slowed to 2% amid pessimistic outlook from small businesses, boding poorly for near-term employment gains. http://www.mesirowfinancial.com/

TIF Works

TIF WORKS - TAX INCREMENT FINANCING PLAYS IN PEORIA

The City Council of Peoria has approved three tax increment financing districts in the last two and one half years. A total of eighteen (18) buildings have been approved for development or redevelopment in the three new and one existing TIF’s. 

Total investment in the buildings will beapproximately $186,000,000, creating over 1,000 jobs. 

This during the “Great Recession”.

And there are many more buildings in the works.

____Buildings Completed *

Warehouse TIF

LaVille De Maillet, L.L.C. *

JP Riverfront Development Comp, Inc. (Sullivan) Sealtest

Iron Front, L.L.C., (Huber) 408 Washington

Iron Front, L.L.C., (Huber) 412 Washington

Iron Front, L.L.C., (Huber) 420 Washington

Edgewater Building (Huber) River

Fastenal Company *

Drumheller Properties L.L.C *

D & B Developers, L.L.C. (Waterstreet Solutions)

B & L Sales *

Southtown TIF
Illinois Medical Clinic *

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Long Term Acute Health Care Facility Cullinan *

Cancer Research Center

HIZ TIF

HIZ Pere Marquette Mariott Hotel

Eagleview

Behr Peoria, Inc. *

Martco, LTD (Laser Electric) *

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Pulaski Express/Adams Street Supermarket *

JWE Properties/Engler Meier & Justice (Westmont) *

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Mixed Use Development = High Sales

Downtown Mixed Use Generates 

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More Than 30 Times The Tax Revenue of Malls

Jul 15, 2010 -- Citiwire


Sarasota County, Florida finds that one mixed use building generates 36 times the property taxes per acre as the region's largest high end mall. Mary Newsom reports that "evidence is piling up to show the benefits of compact, in-town development."




http://www.planetizen.com/node/45087

CNN - Best Places to Live

CNN Money's annual list of the "Best 


Places to Live" can be viewed on the link 


below. Bolingbrook is the highest rated


community in Illinois. As the former Will 


County Planning Director I am glad to 


see Bolingbrook doing well and beating


many more affluent communities.

http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bplive/2010/top100/

Good Article About the Redevelopment of Cincinnati

Revitalization of Cinncinnati

Following the reconstruction of Fort Washington Way, Riverfront Stadium was then partially demolished to make room for the construction of the $290 million Great American Ball Park.  

Read about it at:

http://www.urbanophile.com/2010/07/13/randy-simes-cincinnatis-dramatic-multi-billion-dollar-riverfront-revitalization-nearly-complete/

Planning Conference in Normal, IL Sep 22-24, 2010

2010 APA-IL State Conference Registration Now Live!

Start making plans to visit beautiful Bloomington-Normal this September!

Get a firsthand look at the Uptown Normal redevelopment area during this year’s annual statewide planning conference! More than 10 years of urban planning and political stick-tuitiveness has really paid off.

Here’s what you can see:

1. A fully functioning traffic roundabout with an award-winning design created by Chicago landscape architect Peter Lindsay Schaudt.

2. A LEED Silver Children’s Discovery Museum, LEED Silver bank, and a LEED Silver mixed-use building

3. Street tree plantings utilizing “Silva Cells” to promote healthy urban tree growth

4. A beautiful streetscape design with unique parallel parking elements

5. A 4-star Marriott Hotel and Conference Center, built as a public-private partnership

6. Rehabilitated historic building facades and appropriate infill development

All of these design components played into the Uptown being designated as LEED-ND Silver location, which means it is an environmentally sustainable neighborhood.

And you can do more than simply LOOK at Uptown Normal! There are plenty of locally owned restaurants and bars, an excellent trail system, and an awesome theater playing classic, independent, and foreign films Thursday through Sunday night.

We know you will enjoy your stay in Uptown!

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2010 APA-IL State Conference * Sept 22-24, 2010 * Normal, IL

http://www.ilapa.org/


http://www.normal.org/


http://uptownnormal.com/