P-B Dialogues next week on DMC
Here's the promo story that will run Saturday. Another question to be asked: How will Mayo's financial performance last year, and Standard & Poor's cautionary report issued Thursday on Mayo's finances, affect DMC's chances in the Legislature?
Destination Medical Center, Mayo Clinic's bold proposal to leverage its
investments in Rochester over the next 20 years and remake the city as
an international "destination" for medical visitors, was announced last
month and is now moving through the Legislature.
What's it all
about? How would it be administered? How much tax money would be
involved? What are its chances for passage? And is it really, as Rep.
Mike Benson has called it, "the most important economic development
legislation in Minnesota" of the past century?
On Wednesday, the
Post-Bulletin will host an informal public meeting with community
leaders to talk about the proposal and get answers to your questions.
The Post-Bulletin Dialogues event will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the
Rochester Public Library auditorium.
Joining Managing Editor Jay
Furst in the discussion will be Lisa Clarke, Mayo's administrator in
charge of DMC; Dr. Bradley Narr, medical director of the initiative;
John Wade, president of the Rochester Area Chamber of Commerce; and Ed
Hruska, Rochester City Council member.
The Mayo officials will
outline the initiative, which could have a total estimated impact of $6
billion on the area over the next 20 years, while Wade and Hruska will
discuss the public and private development aspects of the plan, which
include a Development Authority that would make key decisions on how
development occurs.
Post-Bulletin Dialogues is a monthly series
of public meetings on important community issues, and as always, most of
the 90-minute get-together next week will be a Q & A with the
audience. This is your chance to get answers directly from people who
are deeply involved in making DMC happen.
If you can't be there
and have a question you'd like to be addressed at the meeting, send it
to furst@postbulletin.com or go to the Furst Draft blog at
PostBulletin.com.
I would like to add a question here: About how maybe businesses (hotels, restaurants, etc.) have given commitments to Rochester, if the DMC passes? Thank you
~Toby Knopp
Posted by: Jason's Storm | 26 February 2013 at 12:04 PM