Proposal
from The Druker Company
Commitment to Community Involvement
Our
Commitment
The Druker Companyıs development team has a great deal of experience with
and appreciates the importance of frequent, wide ranging interaction with
representatives of the community in which a project it undertakes is located.
We are accustomed to it and we believe in it.
In the case of University Gateway Center, important stakeholders who should be "at the table" with whichever development team is selected include the students and administration of The Ohio State University, elected and appointed officials of the City of Columbus, University District residents and business people and the many advocacy and special interests who have specific perspectives which should be heard.
Campus Partners has served a vital role in completing and broadly disseminating the results of careful analysis of many issue areas. They have developed and widely distributed draft plans for community discussion, debate and, ultimately, the development of a community consensus. Campus Partners is an essential forum for students, community and government representatives to cooperatively plan the revitalization of the University District.
Moreover, The Ohio State University and the City of Columbus have invested significant resources in helping such an important initiative, the University Gateway Center project, to move from the conceptual toward a concrete reality. Continued participation in the development by those who have invested so much of their own time is necessary and appropriate.
Rather than stipulate precisely how we believe the continued and likely expanded participation of The University, The University District and the broader community should occur, we prefer to develop such a detailed protocol for community involvement with those who will continue to participate should we be selected as developer.
Among the choices of an appropriate model for community involvement with
the development are 1) the appointment of a standing advisory committee
representing many different interests, 2) the development teamıs working
one-on-one with existing groups at times and place convenient to them
or 3) some combination of both. Rather than postulate a specific plan
in a vacuum, we commit to extensive, continuing outreach in ways convenient
and appropriate to the stakeholders who will review this project.
Table of Contents
