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Study recommends zoning and funding steps to attract jobs to Thimble Creek employment area
Summary
Consultants told commissioners that infrastructure costs, parcel fragmentation and power‑line easements limit development in the Thimble Creek campus industrial area; recommended actions include code adjustments, stronger college partnership and exploration of large funding tools such as urban renewal.
Consultants presented a market assessment and site‑readiness study for the Thimble Creek concept plan area and asked the City Commission to appoint two commissioners to work with staff on next steps.
Johnson Economics and HHPR consultant teams told commissioners that the North Employment Campus portion of Thimble Creek is underperforming because of high costs to extend public infrastructure, parcel fragmentation (about 60 tax lots and 42 owners in the employment area), and limiting power‑line easements that prevent built space in large swaths of the site. "The area was planned for up to 5,000, new jobs," the consultants said while…
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