{"id":408,"date":"2018-05-21T17:57:57","date_gmt":"2018-05-21T17:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/?p=408"},"modified":"2018-05-21T21:52:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-21T21:52:57","slug":"economic-development-monthly-report-april-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/2018\/05\/21\/economic-development-monthly-report-april-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic Development \u2013 Monthly Report \u2013 April 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><strong>ATTENTION CITY COUNCIL: THIS WILL BE THE LAST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MONTHLY DEPARTMENT REPORT AVAILABLE HERE.\u00a0 PLEASE LOOK FOR FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INFO AS A SECTION\u00a0 OF THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES MONTHLY REPORT.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, etc.): <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><u>Mount Hood Cigar Co.<\/u>:\u00a0 The Mount Hood Cigar Company had their Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce ribbon cutting ceremony over the weekend and is officially open to the public.\u00a0 Chris Bailey, store owner and patriarch, brought his family here all the way from South Carolina with a brief stop in Lake Oswego. \u00a0They did a fantastic job of building out the store (they did the work themselves \u2013 Mr. Bailey is also a licensed contractor) and are very happy with the end result. \u00a0They had a wide variety of quality cigars from around the world on display, and really seem to know their stuff.\u00a0 Curious to see if this store brings in enough weekend mountain traffic to really take off\u2026<\/p>\n<p><u>Sandlandia<\/u>:\u00a0 Both new carts (Swine Dining, Mountain View Caf\u00e9) are now operational.\u00a0 It also appears that the Captain\u2019s Galley is no longer located at the site, so we are net +2 for carts at Sandlandia in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><u>Trout Pub space<\/u>:\u00a0 I am currently working with Chris Corbin (building owner) to put together the first City of Sandy Tenant Improvement grant to help create a new restaurant here.\u00a0 At the time of this writing, Mr. Corbin intends to open his own restaurant at the site featuring quality burgers and sausages made on site.<\/p>\n<p><u>Joy Teriyaki<\/u>:\u00a0 \u00a0After a very long wait, Joy Teriyaki will be opening their new restaurant with a soft open on May 21.\u00a0 Their grand opening\/ribbon cutting will take place on Saturday, May 26 and will feature several prominent local politicians including our current state senator, Chuck Thomsen.\u00a0 (Justin Hwang, owner of the franchise, is running for office in a neighboring district.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project work:\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Downtown maintenance: We are beginning to focus our efforts on the downtown a bit more as spring kicks into gear.\u00a0 Flower baskets are up, and AntFarm\u2019s watering contract is in effect.\u00a0 We are going to be collecting the remaining East County Gazette paper boxes lingering in our downtown (the paper is no longer being published) shortly, and beginning a number of fa\u00e7ade projects that are currently in the works.\u00a0 We are also in the beginning stages of a push to clean up some of the derelict buildings downtown.\u00a0 Stay tuned\u2026<\/li>\n<li>Community Partnership Program grant: Since we didn\u2019t use all of the money allocated for our community due to the fact that we only had two valid applications, we requested that the AntFarm request for funding a farmer\u2019s market study be fully funded (they had other funding from other grants listed in their original request) so the other sources of funding could be used elsewhere.\u00a0 Clackamas County Tourism was happy to grant that request, so AntFarm will be receiving $6,000 for this study instead of the $2,500 they originally requested.Also, I should receive plans this week for the new Meinig Park Gateway Arch.\u00a0 We hope to get this constructed as quickly as possible to have ready for the summer concert series and Mountain Festival if possible.<\/li>\n<li>CGI: I am currently beginning the process of updating our Welcome videos on the main page of our website with CGI Communications, the company that created them for us.\u00a0 More to come soon (Mr. Mayor \u2013 We will also be updating the short video introduction that you did for us.\u00a0 I will get in touch with you sometime in the coming month to schedule this.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conferences\/training:\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><u>Travel Oregon Listening Session (April 4)<\/u>: This is an ongoing discussion started by Travel Oregon last year as they witnessed record numbers of tourists in the Columbia River Gorge.\u00a0 The takeaway from this event was that, with gawkers out to look at the fire damage from last year, plus rapidly increasing tourism from places like China, the Gorge is now at capacity.\u00a0 This should result in a lot more local tourism on our side of the mountain as locals look to get away from the congestion and hike and mountain bike in peace.<\/li>\n<li><u>SACC Candidates Forum (April 9)<\/u>: \u00a0This event represents the first efforts from the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce to provide infrastructure for local elections. We invited all of the primary candidates for local public office to state their case and take questions from Chamber members and the public.\u00a0 It went exceptionally well, and we were inundated with thanks from the locals that came for putting on this event.\u00a0 The SACC Public Affairs Committee is looking forward to doing this again for the general election.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATTENTION CITY COUNCIL: THIS WILL BE THE LAST ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MONTHLY DEPARTMENT REPORT AVAILABLE HERE.\u00a0 PLEASE LOOK FOR FUTURE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INFO AS A SECTION\u00a0 OF THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES MONTHLY REPORT.\u00a0 Commercial Properties (vacancies, new businesses, etc.): Mount Hood Cigar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/2018\/05\/21\/economic-development-monthly-report-april-2018\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reports.cityofsandy.com\/economicdevelopment\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}