Mayor Coleman and Reinvestment In Our Communities
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CITY OF SAINT PAUL
Mayor Christopher B. Coleman
390 City Hall
15 West Kellogg Boulevard
Saint Paul, MN 55102
For Immediate Release
February 6th, 2007
Mayor Coleman Launches Reinvestment Initiative to Strengthen Saint Paul Neighborhoods
“Invest Saint Paul” will be an innovative partnership to focus resources on areas of disinvestment
(Saint Paul) – Saint Paul Mayor Chris Coleman launched Invest Saint Paul today, a neighborhood investment initiative which will coordinate and focus private and public resources on neighborhoods suffering from disinvestment. Mayor Coleman made the announcement at a meeting with community representatives this morning at City Hall.
Mayor Coleman has appointed Stacey Millett as director of Invest Saint Paul, effective February 12, and named the Twin Cities Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) as a lead partner in the effort.
As director, Millett will be responsible for working with City departments and community partners to ensure their work is better focused and coordinated within priority neighborhoods. She comes to the position from the Northwest Area Foundation where she served as product development manager.
“Stacey brings more than 15 years of leadership experience in community development and communications to this initiative,” said Coleman. “With her expertise and stature in the field, we’re confident she can bring the community together around this vision and attract new partners and resources to the table.”
"This is a terrific opportunity to help spearhead a new, exciting vision for Saint Paul that recognizes the assets and talents in neighborhoods that remain critically important to the City's overall well being,” Millett said.
Invest Saint Paul will be a collaborative effort to strategically channel City and additional private resources into revitalization strategies and redevelopment projects in Saint Paul’s Dayton’s Bluff, Lower Eastside, Frogtown, and North End neighborhoods— four strong neighborhoods being challenged by recent economic and social downturns and persistent disinvestment.
“We’re very proud that Saint Paul is a city of neighborhoods,” said Mayor Coleman. “Perhaps more than any other place in America, our civic pride comes from our unique sense of place and from our connection to our neighbors and our city. Invest Saint Paul will align our priorities with our values and recognize what we already know; that to build the most livable city in America every neighborhood in Saint Paul has to be safe, strong, and moving forward.
“We’ve done large developments, and we’ve done them well. Today, we find ourselves at a historic crossroads. The developments of the Central Corridor and the Ford site have given us the opportunity to change the face of our city for the next generation. Invest Saint Paul will take that development to the next level as we rediscover and invest in our identity as a city of neighborhoods.”
“Neighborhoods are the backbone of our City. Invest Saint Paul will bring new resources to the table so we can take immediate action on revitalization projects. We will also have the resolve to keep working in these neighborhoods until the job is done,” Coleman said.
Invest Saint Paul will enhance the efforts already under way in neighborhoods to make a real difference in targeted neighborhoods.
“No single strategy will turn around a neighborhood. No single program will lead a child in a positive direction. No agency has all the answers. Working together, we can solve these problems,” Coleman said.
As a lead partner, the LISC will work with Millett and community leaders to develop a cooperative engagement process that broadens partnerships, expands resources and identifies action strategies that can improve the quality of life in the targeted neighborhoods.
Twin Cities LISC is the local office of a national organization that helps transform distressed neighborhoods in select American cities into good places to live, work, do business, and raise children. For nearly 20 years, Twin Cities LISC has supported the work of Community Development Corporations, bringing more than $60 million in new resources to local neighborhood revitalization efforts. LISC’s focus on community engagement and development, coupled with their access to local and national private capital is a natural fit with Invest Saint Paul.
“LISC is a premiere community investment organization. With their help, Invest Saint Paul can make a real difference in people’s lives,” Coleman said. “They’ve got decades of experience in managing development investments for maximum return, and in bringing complex community projects to completion. LISC’s leadership will give enormous credibility to our efforts to forge new partnerships, and we’re very grateful for their willingness to step up to the plate.”
Invest in St Paul? You have got to be kidding! Who would invest in a city that has out of control city officials, so much corruption you can't keep track of it all and no one ever does any investigations other than to see how they can sweep it under the rug?
I would think that after 5 years of St Paul's Tactics in closing down houses and tearing them down along with a well coordinated plan to chase the poeple out of town whom the city does not like and at the same time "criminalize" the landlords that rent to them that the city would be in pretty good shape by now! Could it be that their plan did not work and now they have to dump a bunch of money into these neighborhoods to undo the damage done by the city to those same neighborhoods? How mcu is this going to cost on our already too high property taxes?
Mayor Coleman is doing a fine job!
Coleman job on fines: fine for vacant buildings, parking, gum wrappers in your yard, a bird nest on your roof, air in your lungs.
One nation under who? Democrats would sell their own families down the river.
February 6 - The Religion Game
Cal Thomas asks in his column today, "Has politics come to this, that some politicians would sell out their own and other free countries for a voting bloc that contains elements committed to our destruction?"
He refers to an event last Friday during which the Democratic National Committee's Annual Winter Meeting in Washington, Imam Husham Al-Hussainy of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center and Shi'ite mosque in Dearborn, Michigan, offered an invocation. The assembled Democrats bowed their heads and Al-Hussainy prayed:
"In the name of God most merciful, the most compassionate, we thank you, God, to bless us among your creations. We thank you, God, to make us a great nation. We thank you, God, to send us your messages through our father Abraham and Moses and Jesus and Mohammed. Through you we unite. So guide us to the right path. The path of the people you bless, not the path of the people you doom. Help us, God, to liberate and fill this earth with justice and peace and love and equality. And help us to stop the war and violence and oppression and occupation. Amen."
Was this a touching moment of ecumenical accomplishment? Probably not. Al-Hussainy heads one of Dearborn's largest mosques. He is an extremist cleric and disciple of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. Al-Hussainy has huge mainstream support. Unfortunately, he is living on American soil with permanent citizenship and many easily incited followers.
This past summer he seemed very happy leading almost daily protests of thousands of Hezbollah supporters on the streets of Dearborn and Detroit, swarming with swastikas and anti-Semitic, anti-American signs.
Cal Thomas writes, "Democrats have been trying to get back in the religion game since Republicans cornered most of the Evangelical Christian vote in the last several election cycles, but choosing Husham Al-Hussainy as their instrument to put them in closer touch, if not with God, then with Muslim voters, is most outrageous."
Blogger Debbie Schlussel says, I watched him at an anti-Semitic rally of 3,000 Hezbollah supporters at Dearborn's Bint Jebail Cultural Center. He was among several who delivered hate-filled, anti-American rhetoric. I watched him cheer others on when they called for the hastened destruction of the Jews and when they said Americans are 'diseased.' "
Cal Thomas concluded on a bi-partisan note, "In the race to the bottom for votes to win office, or to preserve themselves in office, it would be difficult to outrun Republicans as they pander to the Hispanic vote by refusing to control our southern border against an invasion by millions of illegal aliens. Democrats are trying and they may soon pass Republicans in their cynical pursuit of political power."
As believers we have hope in the King of Kings for "the government shall be upon His shoulders" (Isa. 9:6). Such antics will not be necessary. There will be no pursuit of political power for He will have all political power. Won't it be refreshing?
I say bring it on.
Awaiting His return,
Jan Markell
And what the hell did that have to do with the current thread?
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Cal should send that Homeland Security. Being an American citizens means nothing anymore since the Patriot Act allows the government to aresst and detain anyone who they think may be a danger to our security. They have the right to hold these individuals without charges or legal consul indefinitly.
With that kind of power, that they've used before http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6682846
Why is he on the streets if this is true?
The current leadership in the City of St Paul is a danger to our security if you own real estate within the city limits.
Mayor Chris Coleman is a wonderful mayor. I think his tax policy is the bomb. I think our taxes are way too small and we should be giving more back to the city for the services we receive.
Look at Minneapolis, they get very high taxes and look at the police service they get. I think they are up to 7 or 8 murders this year. This is not bad compared to other parts of the country. With this trend Minneapolis is set to breat the 100 mark for murders in a year.
Both Rybak and Coleman are doing a wonderful job. With their team work, why not merge Minneapolis and St. Paul.
Why in St. Paul recently we had a gang member shoot up the hood and it took a police officer with his own personal AR15 to stop this mad man. Coleman and Rybak want more tax dollars for public safety, but they are unwilling to spend this money on public safety. Had this police officer not had his personal AR15, he would have been out gunned as he only had a shotgun and a handgun to protect himself and these were no match for what the gang member had.
Coleman and Rybak need to invest in public safety and lock up the real bad guys.
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