Discovery Walk Co-designing

Collaborators 

Lead Organization: DMC EDA

Contact: Kevin Bright ; Email: TBD ; Phone: TBD

Known/Likely Collaborators: City of Rochester, MN ; County of Olmsted, MN ; DMC EDA ; Diversity Council ; Mayo Clinic ; Mortenson ; Olmsted County Public Health Services ; OpenBeam ; RSP ; Rochester Area Family Y ; Rochester Public Library ; Rochester Public Schools ; United Way of Olmsted County ; Well Living Lab (A Delos and Mayo Clinic collaboration)

Potential Collaborators: Lotus Health Foundation

Related Projects

America's City for Health ; Community Health Assessment Process ; DMC Discovery Square ; Destination Medical Center (DMC) ; Discovery Square One ; Education, Health and Recreation Space (DMC UMR/Rec sub-district) ; Residence at Discovery Square (Third Ave Lofts Residence at Discovery Square) ; Rochester Y Community Health Living Index Assessment (CHLI) ; Rochester, MN Transit Development Plan Update ; University of Minnesota, Rochester Master Plan

Impacts 

Major Impact:  Co-designing

PlanScape Impacts :

Level 1: Best Practice, Diversity and Inclusion, OpenBeam, Recreation & Open Space, Vision/Identity

Level 2: Livable City, Technology, Discovery Square

DMC Impacts:

Discovery Square, UMR and Recreation

Community Health Impacts:

Type of Project

Building, Planning, Featured  

2021-04-01

Justification

Details

Community Co-Design Concept

March 2021 Presentation

September 2020 Presentation

Discovery Walk Co-Design Session 3 Notes

DMC Discovery Square Open House

Framing the design points:

 Meeting material from Jan. meeting:

Macro and micro expected outcomes of the project. 

First pass at co-designer list -- Convening Co-designers

CMRC pausing public activities and investment potential white paper availability announcement.

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);

2024-08-12 PB Reporting GRAUC leads project to build prototype sim center The Southeast Minnesota Community Healthcare Simulation Center is set to open in downtown

Rochester by mid-October

Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Fight Against Hate

"Abolishing racism, hate crimes, and white supremacy isn’t a problem for one group to face alone; it’s a shared burden that requires a strong and unified response."

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

Newsletter Highlights:

Systems Change Designation; Data Updates; Network Updates; Contributors

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.

The framework defines structural racism as the “totality of ways in which societies foster racial discrimination through mutually reinforcing systems of housing, education, employment, earnings, benefits, credit, media, health care and criminal justice.”

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 

June 24, 2024 City Council Study Session: Justice Equity Diversity and Inclusion (JEDI) Audit per Goodenough 

Departmental Audit reports of: Human Resources; Rochester Public Library; Parks & Rec 

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.

"Example of careers they are interested in include radiology, artificial Intelligence, surgery, aeronautical engineering, psychology, sports, business administration and many more!"