Meeting Minutes
Please join us for a special meeting of the Person Street Partnership to discuss the implementation of the Blount/Person Street Corridor Project and the new Downtown Plan.
Tuesday April 25 5:30 - 6:30pm NCAIA Building Main Floor on Peace Street
Eric Lamb, Director, Office of Transportation City of Raleigh and Trisha Hasch, Project Manager, Long Range Planning City of Raleigh will be on hand to provide updates and discuss the corridor project and the Downtown Raleigh plan in which The North End (Seaboard Station, WPU, and #NorthPerson Street) is a catalytic priority area.
This meeting is open to the PSP and surrounding neighborhoods that will be impacted by these important initiatives. The Person Street Partnership consists of neighbors & business owners promoting the North Person Street district, located near Mordecai & Oakwood in Raleigh,NC. #NorthPerson http://northperson.com
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APRIL 16 SPECIAL MEETING:
The PSP met at 9:30am on April 16, 2016 the Person Street Bar.
We discussed important details about the partial two way conversion of Person Street between Peace and Delway streets. Thanks to everyone who attended as we looked at specific details on how this conversion will be made.
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PSP Fall Meeting/ 2015 - - Agenda
Approximately 10 people attended the quarterly meeting at the AIA Building. Philip welcomed the group noting that attendance at this meeting would be less than usual due to a neighborhood zoning meeting and other conflicts.
Business Updates:
Philip also noted that Person Street now has two full service restaurants, a café, two private bars, and two beer and wine shops. Feedback from the surrounding neighborhoods indicates that we have reached our desired capacity for places to purchase and consume alcohol and we are hoping to strive for a more well-balanced neighborhood business district. The PSP encourages property owners to open up more unique retail shops, a neighborhood coffee shop, and potentially some new restaurant options such as a wood fired pizza place. Local gallery owners would like to see more galleries helping to encourage a vibrant local arts district.
Updates from the PSP Special Events, Noise, and Parking Task Force:
Philip has met with Kate Cross from the newly formed City of Raleigh Special events office and she will be the neighborhood contact for special events in the Person Street area. The City has made many changes to the application process for special events including a three month time requirement and fees for street closures.
Here is follow up info from Kate with information about the Special Events office:
If you wish to contact the Special Events Office you can send an email to our Special Events inbox @ SpecialEvents@raleighnc.gov which is monitored by our office coordinator Sarah Heinsohn. This is the best email contact to give community members if they have questions about events and/or their associated closure details, how to apply for an event, our rules and policies, notification issues, complaints/concerns, etc. You can also always call into our office at 919-996-2200.
To quickly summarize the current resources of our office:
- Online Feedback Form: Designed for event attendees or community members affected by events to provide constructive feedback about specific aspects of the event, so that we can track and reference this information for future planning.
- Weekly Digest: A weekly email update that includes a brief description of upcoming events for the week, including the road closures associated with the event
- Online Calendar: A calendar resource with up-to-date information about all events currently scheduled within the City that are taking place on public right-of-way. Whenever possible this calendar provides road closure details and direct contact information for reaching event organizers.
- Public Notification Requirements: Going forward, we will be enforcing these requirements for all events. If ever you do not receive notification, please alert our office via the feedback form or email us at specialevents@raleighnc.gov.
And of course as we discussed, we will be contacting you directly to gain advance community feedback for any new event requests that will impact Person Street, Oakwood, Mordecai, and the surrounding areas. We look forward to working with you and the Person Street Partnership going forward.
Website, Logo Development, and Social Media:
Holiday Lightballs:
Tuesday April 25 5:30 - 6:30pm NCAIA Building Main Floor on Peace Street
Eric Lamb, Director, Office of Transportation City of Raleigh and Trisha Hasch, Project Manager, Long Range Planning City of Raleigh will be on hand to provide updates and discuss the corridor project and the Downtown Raleigh plan in which The North End (Seaboard Station, WPU, and #NorthPerson Street) is a catalytic priority area.
This meeting is open to the PSP and surrounding neighborhoods that will be impacted by these important initiatives. The Person Street Partnership consists of neighbors & business owners promoting the North Person Street district, located near Mordecai & Oakwood in Raleigh,NC. #NorthPerson http://northperson.com
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APRIL 16 SPECIAL MEETING:
The PSP met at 9:30am on April 16, 2016 the Person Street Bar.
We discussed important details about the partial two way conversion of Person Street between Peace and Delway streets. Thanks to everyone who attended as we looked at specific details on how this conversion will be made.
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PSP Fall Meeting/ 2015 - - Agenda
Approximately 10 people attended the quarterly meeting at the AIA Building. Philip welcomed the group noting that attendance at this meeting would be less than usual due to a neighborhood zoning meeting and other conflicts.
Business Updates:
- Sadly, Piebird is no longer open - - Piebird is credited with being a restaurant pioneer on Person Street when many folks said a full service restaurant could not make it due to a lack of parking and neighborhood support. Many thanks go to Sheliagh Cassidy and George Duncan for their huge contribution to the revitalization of Person Street. Everyone hopes that Sheilagh’s wonderful pies will continue to find their way into our hearts and stomachs! Meanwhile, interest in the former Piebird location is high!
- Pelagic, http://pelagicbeerandwine.com, (a geological term referring to “of or pertaining to the sea”), a new craft beer and wine shop owned by Mordecai residents Matt and Amanda Allen opened early in December at 300 Pace Street behind the former Piebird location. This is a temporary spot for them until the former corner barbershop is renovated and they will move to that location leaving 300 Pace open for lease.
- Green Planet Catering http://greenplanetcatering.com has taken over the Person Street Café facebook.com/ThePharmacyCafeRaleigh/. Daniel Whittaker, owner addressed the group and said that his executive chef Patrick Cowden had years of experience at restaurants like the Weather Vane in Chapel Hill and the Tobacco Road restaurants. They are currently serving the same menu with plans to revise the menu in early 2016. Green Planet has an excellent management team and is looking forward to being a part of Person Street.
- Gather, http://shop.gathergoodsco.com, a beautiful plant filled gift shop and classroom has opened in front of Local Salon in the 200 block of Franklin Street next to Oak City Cycling.
- The grocery store at Standard Foods http://standard-foods.com has now opened after the restaurant opened in early November. A recent article about the grocery was featured in Garden and Gun magazine!
Philip also noted that Person Street now has two full service restaurants, a café, two private bars, and two beer and wine shops. Feedback from the surrounding neighborhoods indicates that we have reached our desired capacity for places to purchase and consume alcohol and we are hoping to strive for a more well-balanced neighborhood business district. The PSP encourages property owners to open up more unique retail shops, a neighborhood coffee shop, and potentially some new restaurant options such as a wood fired pizza place. Local gallery owners would like to see more galleries helping to encourage a vibrant local arts district.
Updates from the PSP Special Events, Noise, and Parking Task Force:
Philip has met with Kate Cross from the newly formed City of Raleigh Special events office and she will be the neighborhood contact for special events in the Person Street area. The City has made many changes to the application process for special events including a three month time requirement and fees for street closures.
Here is follow up info from Kate with information about the Special Events office:
If you wish to contact the Special Events Office you can send an email to our Special Events inbox @ SpecialEvents@raleighnc.gov which is monitored by our office coordinator Sarah Heinsohn. This is the best email contact to give community members if they have questions about events and/or their associated closure details, how to apply for an event, our rules and policies, notification issues, complaints/concerns, etc. You can also always call into our office at 919-996-2200.
To quickly summarize the current resources of our office:
- Online Feedback Form: Designed for event attendees or community members affected by events to provide constructive feedback about specific aspects of the event, so that we can track and reference this information for future planning.
- Weekly Digest: A weekly email update that includes a brief description of upcoming events for the week, including the road closures associated with the event
- Online Calendar: A calendar resource with up-to-date information about all events currently scheduled within the City that are taking place on public right-of-way. Whenever possible this calendar provides road closure details and direct contact information for reaching event organizers.
- Public Notification Requirements: Going forward, we will be enforcing these requirements for all events. If ever you do not receive notification, please alert our office via the feedback form or email us at specialevents@raleighnc.gov.
And of course as we discussed, we will be contacting you directly to gain advance community feedback for any new event requests that will impact Person Street, Oakwood, Mordecai, and the surrounding areas. We look forward to working with you and the Person Street Partnership going forward.
- The PSP continues to monitor issues with noise in the district by serving as liaison between the surrounding neighbors and the businesses. Please let Philip know if there are any ongoing issues related to noise particularly late at night. The PSP will also try to give advance warning to neighbors about special events where bands will be playing. If you are having an amplified event, please contact the PSP so that we can get out advance warning. Good communication between PSP partners has helped greatly to mitigate noise complaints.
- Philip met with Gordon Dash, the director of Parklink about the limited parking in the Person Street area. We will be working with Sherry Belville in their office to review all of the public parking in the district to see that parking spaces are maximized and at a safe distance from intersections.
- Sarah Dewitt, a local business owner and resident of Pace Street between Person and Blount, joined the meeting to present a unique proposal which if feasible (and legal) could avoid having residential parking restrictions placed on streets like Pace and Franklin which are used by both residents and businesses. Currently, residential parking permit zones only allow residents with permits to park in these areas during designated hours. Sarah’s proposal would allow each resident the ability to designate a parking space directly in front of each residence which would leave the rest of the spaces on the street open to anyone including business patrons. The PSP would like to commend Sarah and our residential partners on Pace, Blount, and Franklin for their continued patience and desire to work with the local businesses in encouraging workable parking solutions which benefit all in the business district.
- Businesses are also encouraged to reach out to each other to find alternative parking possibilities for their customers and staff. Standard Foods has reached out to Retro Fitness with a potential way to offer pay parking through a pay parking service in a portion of their lot. The PSP has reached out to Wright Electric with the idea of allowing employee parking for several businesses in their private back lot.
Website, Logo Development, and Social Media:
- The website is now up and running at northperson.com. Check it out! Thanks to Dana Deaton for building it and to the Mordecai CAC for providing funding for the domain name and server.
- We plan to launch our logo contest after the first of the year. The PSP is working with a graphic designer to develop the guidelines and conduct as professional a contest as possible.
- We’ll be reaching out to our PSP businesses to ask for 8 $25 gift certificates to the winner of the competition.
- Dana Deaton is also our social media contact and she is constantly updating our Facebook page and using both Twitter and Instagram to send info out about our businesses. When you send out info, please use our #northperson and Dana will make sure that you get extended coverage of your news and events.
- Also, when you send out info about your business or receive media coverage, make sure to mention your affiliation with the PSP. We’re promoting your businesses and we would like for you to promote the PSP - - the PSP is YOU!
Holiday Lightballs:
- Almost all businesses are now participating in the holiday lightball program.
- The neighborhoods love seeing the lightballs and the PSP get tons of positive comments about this popular holiday tradition which helped to build much needed momentum in our earlier years.
- The PSP would like to thank the following folks for helping with this project; The Village of Pilot Mill annual lightball workshop, Kim Gazella, Tom Grey, Ken Jacobsen, Stephan Kiefer, Joe Layton, and Becky Hayes.
