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Main Street District details safety, placemaking and camera upgrades as downtown nears $500 million in investment
Summary
Representatives of the Main Street District told Columbia City Council that downtown clean-and-safe work, shuttle service and placemaking projects are supporting business growth as several large developments approach about $500 million in combined investment and an expected doubling of downtown residents.
Matt (representing the Main Street District) told the Columbia City Council that the district’s clean-and-safe and placemaking programs are designed to boost business growth and downtown density as multiple development projects proceed.
The Main Street District representative described direct services — safety escorts, a seven-days-a-week courtesy shuttle, block-level documentation by yellow-shirt ambassadors, landscaping and a street-pole banner program — and said the district measures program results. “We did over 19,000 safety escorts in a year's time,” he said, adding that shuttle pickups increased about 38% year over year and that ambassadors collected about 163,000 pounds of trash, up about 5%.
The presentation emphasized upgrades to public-safety infrastructure. The district said it will deactivate legacy analog cameras in July and install new digital cameras that connect to the Columbia Police Department, beginning around the…
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