Destination Medical Center (DMC)

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Contact: Patrick Seeb ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; Mayo Clinic ; Rochester-Area Economic Development Inc (RAEDI) ; Rochester-area Chamber of Commerce ; Southern Minnesota Initiative Foundation

Potential Collaborators:

Related Projects

Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) Plan ; America's City for Health ; Chateau Theater ; Coalition for Rochester Area Housing ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Dashboard ; Discovery Walk Co-designing ; Heart of the City Peace Plaza Public Realm ; Journey to Growth Plan ; LINK - Bus Rapid Transit ; Mayo Clinic Bold Forward Unbound ; Planning To Succeed: Rochester 2040 Comprehensive Plan (P2S) ; Saint Marys Place: Holiday Inn Project ; Sustainability and Resiliency Action Plan ; University of Minnesota, Rochester Master Plan

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Economic Development

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Arts & Culture, Economic Development, Housing, Sustainability, Transportation, Workforce Development, Vision/Identity

Level 2: Best Practice, Business Process, Livable City, Hotel & Hospitality, Retail, Dining & Entertainment, Arts & Culture, Technology, Health & Wellness, Education/Learning Environment, Sports, Recreation, Nature, Heart of the City, Discovery Square, UMR and Recreation, Central Station

DMC Impacts:

Livable City, Hotel & Hospitality, Arts & Culture, Technology, Health & Wellness, Education/Learning Environment, Sports, Recreation, Nature

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Planning  

2020 Plan Updates

May 2024 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Joint Meeting

Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

Feb 1, 2024 DMCC Board Meeting

Private investment metrics Slide

Video Clip

PB Reporting

November DMCC Meeting Info 

September DMCC Meeting Info

May DMCC Meeting Info 

2. Meeting Package,

3. Meeting Slides,

4. Video Recording 

5. Breakouts

March 2023 Executive Committee Meeting;

Feb 9 2023 DMCC Board Meeting and City, County, DMC Collaborative Session

DMCC Board Meeting

City, County, DMC Board Collaborative Session: Featuring Thomas Fisher

Project Discussion (City of Rochester, EDA: Experience metrics, Business Development, 

Project Updates: A. Heart of the City 27 B. Riverfront Reimagined 29 C. Rapid Transit Corridor Development 31 D. District Energy 33 E. McKnight Foundation Grants

September 20211 DMCC Board Meetings information.

Feb. 3, 2021 DMC Slide Decks and Recording

August 2020 DMCC Board Meeting highlights include: Development Plan Five Year Update; 2021 Budget and 5 Year Outlook 

2020 Workplan; Road to Recovery; Women Owned Business; CIP Memo; Heart of the City; Discovery Square Memo;5 YearPlaUpdate; Funding Request; COVID Response

Feb Meeting DMCC Board Meeting Info. 

November 12 DMCC Board Meeting and October 2019 DMCC Board Updates (Special DMCC Board Meeting), Funding Request Memo, 5 Year Capital Plan, 2020 DMC CIP Infrastructure Projects, DMCC 2020 Workplan and Budget Presentation to DMCC Board September 2019, Funding Section Presentation, Funding/Work plan Doc 

September 2019 DMCC Meeting memo about metrics dashboard. 

May 2019 Meeting Packet and breakouts.

3rd Annual DMC Real Estate Development and Investment Summit

DMC: Year of Milestones a Post Bulletin Report

DMCC Meeting Packet with affordable housing and transportation breakouts. Highlights: Affordable Housing, Transportation, Metrics. 

November DMCC Board Meeting: 2019  Workplan and Slide Deck

PB special reporting on DMC status.

While the DMC EDA budget will rise from $3.5 million this year to more than $3.7 million next year, the city will contribute $122,000 less and Mayo Clinic's contribution will increase by $337,000.

DMC expenses in 2016 rounds to $2.2M.

What qualifies for DMC financial support? 

What DMC projects are in the pipeline in Phase 1 and what kind of public assistances if any, they are receiving.

Funding stream explanations

I was asked by a friend to give my observations on what might be done to transform DMC operations from good to great. Here are my thoughts using a SWOT matrix.

At least one notable checkpoint was met, from last Thursday's cancelled DMC Board Mtg.  The DMC Development Guide draft was made available.

It has been clear to openBEAM.net for some time that the DMC Project Application Evaluation process needs to get better. The process should aim to be transparent, accountable, responsive and predictable (TARP). 

Looking at the October/November/September status report to attempt to reconcile its accomplishments with the September status report's Major Tasks, a number of things have moved along nicely. However,

In the September report, EDA had the goal:

" a complete funding program for DMC public infrastructure projects"

".... finalize the Development Guide ... "

Those activities appear to be either behind schedule or were meant to be accounted for in the November board meeting.  A better accounting of month to month progress may be in order.

Sept. 16^th: Workshop: Finding your First Customers and sell without being salesy; Sept 21^st: Workshop: Financial Literacy; Sept. 28^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 1); Oct. 5^th: Workshop: How to Start a Business from Scratch (Part 2);

PB reporting: A local program providing tax breaks to landlords in exchange for maintaining lower rents is being tweaked to encourage future development of affordable housing.

2024 - 2027 Transportation Plan 

2023 - 2026 Transportation Plan: The Rochester-Olmsted Council of Governments (ROCOG) has released a draft of the 2023-2026 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP), for a 30-day public comment period. 

August 2024 Report : Age-Friendly Olmsted County (AFOC) activities implementing the Age

Friendly Olmsted County 2022-2025 Action Plan since our annual report in February 2024.

3Q2024: July 2024 Admin Message and Reports

July 17, 2024 City of Rochester: Adopting a Resolution authorizing an amendment to the Development Assistance Agreement and the Declaration of Restrictive Covenants to revise the affordability covenants related to the 80% Units.

March and May 2023 reports to DMCC including video, documents and presentations. 

Home Ownership Creation Program - Prairie Ridge: "NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, by the Common Council of the City of Rochester, MN hereby approves the contribution of $4,000,000 to the Prairie Ridge development to support the creation of 201 for-sale homes via the Home Ownership Creation Program.

2Q 2024: June 2024; May 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; April 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report

1Q 2024: Feb 2024 - Admin Message, TBE Report; Jan 2024: Admin Message, TBE Report

Special callouts: Women in Construction; City of Rochester Equity in Development 

SASSA to receive $1M from MN to train workers for high-demand employment. 

The funding is awarded under the Minnesota Department of Employment and Economic Development (DEED) Targeted Populations Workforce Competitive Grant Program.

Focus Area: Housing; Our Next Generation; Healthcare; Community-Building; Climate

Activities: Rochester Faith in MN & ISAIAH Calendar and Strategic Missions

Reference: CMRC June 24, 2024 Meeting Presentation Video

DMCC Board Updates:

1. May 2024 Status Memo to DMCC Board  

2. Feb 2024 DMCC Board Meeting: Video Clip of Discussion at Feb 1 2024 DMCC Board - DMC part of MedTech 3.0; Memo to DMCC

3. Nov. 2023 Video Clip of Discussion at DMCC Board Meeting about MN MedTech 3.0 Description and Webinar

References: US DEA Tech Hub Awardees 

Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity (M.O.V.E.) community council application

M.O.V.E. Promotional Flyer and Application to join M.O.V.E.

5/10/2024 Conversation Olmsted County Rep and CMRC Rep.: Regarding Olmsted County Community Council's DEI initiative called Mobilizing Olmsted Voices for Equity (M.O.V.E) 

Rochester Area Foundation Support Message