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Economic Development Retail Sales Tax Board 6801 Delmar Boulevard*University City, Missouri 63130*314-505-8500*Fax: 314-862-3168 QUARTERLY PERFORMANCE REPORT Project Number:6010Quarter:4rdQuarter Applicant/Sponsor:U City Chamber ofSubmittal Date:July 21, 2015Name of Person Completing Report: CommerceGail Snider Project Title:U City Chamber of Commerce Activity Progress Narrative. Please describe milestones achieved during this reporting period: During the fourth quarter, the Chamber advanced all three of its major initiatives, and began FY16 planning.Significant economic development activity was concentrated on the Olive corridor, but included planning for a North and South festival in 2016 and continued collaboration with the Loop Special Business District with the “Loop is Open” campaign. Conducted one-on-one meetings with Olive businesses and business owners regarding plans for economic improvement on Olive. In addition, the Chamber held multiple Olive Business Group meetings during the quarter. We continue to add new participants to the group. The Olive Group working agenda is: Improved Lighting on Olive – City staff working with Ameren on cost containment. This remains the Group’s priority. Road Diet – City staff updating group regularly on progress with MO-DOT on possibilities to eliminate concrete to meet the vision of a more pedestrian-friendly corridor. Safety/Crime Prevention EDRSTB Olive Reserves – The group has expressed desire to have formal input to any reserves expenditures Creating a Community Improvement District (CID) or Special Business District (SBD) over time. The Chamber continues its ongoing reach out to the approximately 200 individual property owners to encourage participation in the Olive Business Group and to more fully populate the Olive Link Property Website. The Chamber continues its outreach to regional property owners and developers to encourage investment in University City. Our goal in 2016 is to host more formal Olive Business Forums and publicize the meetings further in advance to encourage attendance. We have also committed to create a written update for Chinese translation on the various Olive International District programs and initiatives as we continue to strive to establish Olive as a go-to district in our region. The Chamber has begun to partner with the region’s emerging Asian Chamber to build on the Olive International District’s reputation outside of University City. As part of our Olive development efforts, we have teamed with the City to move the focus of the Olive Link Website to be a true community site (target audience B2B as well as business to developer/realtor). We have added eight business profiles to the site as part of the transition and have obtained several web service firms bids to revise the home page and landing pages on the site. Marketing continues to be a focus of Chamber activities throughout the City. The Chamber hosted its annual Taste of U City May 7 – our largest yet with more than 400 attendees and volunteers and featuring 40 businesses including non-restaurants such as Mound City Nut Company, Little Miss Sunshine Playhouse, The Brentmoor and Schnucks. We added several new logos (restaurants who had previously not participated) and created an up-to-date list of U City restaurants with managerial names and contact information.