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DREAM Initiative helps get as much as $1.5 million for CapeWednesday, February 20, 2008The DREAM Initiative has helped bring as much as $1.5 million to the city of Cape Girardeau, according to Marla Mills, executive director of Old Town Cape. She made the announcement as part of a one-year project update. Using volunteers and paid staff, DREAM projects have included a land use and infrastructure study, focus groups, a visitor survey of nearly 200, a downtown community survey, design guidelines for historic districts, a housing market analysis and assessments of tourism and marketing. For the last year, Old Town Cape officials have worked with Cape Girardeau Area Chamber of Commerce, the city and Southeast Missouri State University on most of those efforts. The city won two key grants, $102,000 for a home repair initiative and $5,000 for the city's first storytelling festival, aimed at DREAM cities. Winning a $70,000 Missouri Heritage Properties program grant to update heating and cooling in the Common Pleas Courthouse was made easier, according to Tim Arbeiter of the chamber of commerce. Mainly, DREAM is helping produce a detailed strategic plan for three downtown sections of the city. Mills said the plan will complement the city's comprehensive plan by adding details, such as where parking makes the most sense and how best to add housing. Mills said results of a community survey on downtown priorities, which drew more than 850 responses, will be available later this year. DREAM's strategic plan is due in midsummer, she said. Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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One of the things I have to ask though, is when will the Discovery Playhouse open? It was one of the things that received tax credits (from the DREAM initiative) for businesses to receive when they give to the museum but I haven't heard when it is planning on opening or how the construction is going.
When I worked at the Saint Louis Science Center we made sure that the public knew how it was going in terms of the construction and approximately when it would open. We constantly had people on the news about it and occasionally giving a media tour of the progress. This sort of thing makes sure the museum continues to be in the consciousnesses of the public during the time that it is "out of commission."