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Mayor Bern Beecham has formed an Ad Hoc Retail Committee to discuss ways to improve the retail community in Palo Alto. They held a meeting on July 11, 2004 to discuss the situtation and request suggestions from the community.

This page is a personal effort to provide a HUB for this council so that people who are interested can see what information is available about this subject and discuss the various issues and proposals.

It is not authorized by the official Committee or any other organization involved but until the official site is setup I would hope that people could use this to interact, and I am open to suggestions, thoughts, corrections, etc. to allow the internet communication proceed. Please Email me if you have information that should be on this site, contacts for people who are interestd in hearing about topics on this site, etc. Mailto:Suggestions@WeMatter.com

Resources:

• Mayor hits hot-button issue, During State of the City address Beecham suggests cuts to services, March 10, 2004
• Cities need to help save downtowns, Diana Diamond April 3, 2003
• Forum on Retail Services in Palo Alto PAN (Palo Alto Neighborhoods) July 31, 2003
• Mayor's Forum to Discuss Ideas on Strengthening Retail Climate, City press release June 2, 2004
• Losing businesses, city looks for ways to attract retailers San Jose Mercury June 11, 2004

Information presented on June 11, 2004 (TBD)

• Trends in Taxable sales -- Hinderliter, de Llamas and Associates
• Palo Alto Retail Sector -Fact Sheet-
• Retail related Issues that can be impacted by the City of Palo Alto (Discussion)

  There were 15 ideas presented and the top 5 were identified. The public was given the opertunity to contribute their ideas and coments. Note: I have opened up a Blog discussion area that is available for anyone to make coments and can be reviewed by the members of the Retail Council

Contacts:

Bern Beecham Mayor of Palo Alto

Palo Alto Chamber of Commerce

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June 15, 2004 13:02