Last modified: October 11, 2017
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PB Reporting: "A Destination Medical Center rendering provides a potential look at the future St. Marys Place. Community input is being sought this week as a final design concept nears."
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A concept for renovating public spaces near Saint Marys Hospital could widen portions of Second Street Southwest and seek to provide a more active streetscape.
While the draft plan received tentative support from the Rochester City Council, it doesn't dictate what will happen in the Destination Medical Center subdistrict dubbed St. Marys Place.
"It's essentially a concept plan or guidelines, and we will try to make as many of these as happen as we can as we move forward," Rochester Interim City Manager Gary Neumann said.
Council members said the flexibility in the plan was one of the things they support.
"We can choose the things that make sense," council member Mark Hickey said.
At the same time, council member Nick Campion said it will be important for the council to hold developers to concepts, noting that requests for tax-increment financing will give the city a tool for soliciting compliance.
"I don't think there is any development that is not going to be TIF supported," he said.
The plan focuses on four design strategies, according to Andy Masterpole, an urban designer with SEH in Rochester. They are:
• Activating connected spaces
Initially intended to be a 90-day process, the planning effort has its roots in a foiled effort to build a $63 million Holiday Inn in the subdistrict. Included in the abandoned proposal, which was pulled in early 2016 after months of review, was a subway connection from the hotel to Saint Marys, which would have been funded with a portion of requested $5.6 million in TIF assistance.
While the new concept includes a tunnel under Second Street, it doesn't include the extensive subway system proposed last year.
"The costs are are enormous for tunnels," Masterpole said, noting the new tunnel proposal would connect courtyards on each side of the street, one near the Saint Mary's entrance and another across the street.
At the same time, the connections would force people into a planned street-level arcade, offering connections to businesses.
The proposed tunnel would cost an estimated $1.6 million to $1.8 million, according to the plan. The courtyard on the north side of the street, which would require land acquisition, could cost up to $3 million, while the courtyard on the Saint Marys side would cost $700,000 to $900,000.
The tunnel project, along with a proposed $6 million to $7 million reconstruction of Second Street would be the last of six proposed phases for the project, if completely realized.
Earlier phases would include adding markers, banners and planters to area to create a distinct identity for the subdistrict, followed by installing gateway features and public art to identify Second Street as a gateway in the the DMC district.
A third phase could create a 12th Avenue Plaza, which would close a section of the block north of Second Street, creating flexible space similar to downtown's Peace Plaza.
The plan also calls for setting a goal of expanding Second Street to a width of 100 feet through much of the region. While the proposal could work with existing 66-foot widths, Masterpole said the wider space would create more flexibility for street design.
The city has been acquiring extra right-of-way on each side of the street, but Masterpole noted some spaces may be more narrow with existing buildings in place.
Public Works Director Richard Freese said the updated plans for the city's reconstruction of Second Street Southwest could be ready for further council review in about 90 days.
When it comes to the subdistrict plan, the next steps could include more public engagements, but Neumann noted it has already benefited from public input.
"This project has had more engagement than any we've had," he said.
Patrick Seeb, director of economic development and placemaking for the DMC Economic Development Agency, said the concept will be used to negotiate future development plans, noting it will become a community vision for the subdistrict.
"Like the design guidelines, this is a tool that helps provide direction up front to developers about the kind of city we want to see developed," he said.
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Economic Development
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