Bottineau Community Works Steering Committee

The Bottineau Community Works Steering Committee provides policymaker guidance for the Bottineau Community Works program. It includes elected officials and policymakers from Hennepin County, the Metropolitan Council, corridor cities and other partners.

The Bottineau Community Works Steering Committee meets on the third Monday of every month at 10:30 a.m.

2023 membership roster (PDF) 

Next meeting

• Monday, March 20, 2023
• Time: 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM
• Location and materials coming soon.

Past meetings

January 23, 2023

• Meeting agenda (PDF)
• Meeting presentation (PDF)

September 19, 2022

• Meeting agenda (PDF)
• Meeting notes (PDF)

May 16, 2022

• May meeting agenda (PDF)

April 4, 2022

• April meeting agenda (PDF)
• April meeting notice (PDF)
• April meeting notes (PDF)

January 24, 2022

• January meeting notes (PDF)

November 15, 2021

• Watch the meeting on Microsoft Teams.
• November 15 meeting agenda (PDF)

September 20, 2021

• Watch the meeting on Microsoft Teams.
• September presentation (PDF)
• September agenda (PDF)
• September 20 meeting minutes (PDF)

July 19, 2021

• July 19 agenda (PDF)
• Business technical assistance providers (PDF)

April 13, 2021

• April 2021 agenda (PDF)
• April 2021 presentation (PDF)

Preparing businesses for light rail

The planned METRO Blue Line Extension will connect customers, employees and investment to area businesses. To help businesses prepare for light rail, Hennepin County is working with several local organizations to provide free technical assistance to businesses near the planned LRT route.

Local businesses can access free one-on-one individualized consulting tailored to your specific business and needs.

Services offered include:

• Accounting and record keeping
• Budgeting
• Financial and business analysis
• Business plan development
• Financial planning
• Marketing and branding
• Website and social media
• And much more

Business resource list (PDF)

Contact

To access these services, contact:

Denise Butler
African Career, Education and Resource (ACER)
dbutler@acerinc.org
612-217-0282

Natalia Halls
Neighborhood Development Center (NDC)
nhals@ndc-mn.org
651-379-8424

The area within a half-mile radius or a ten-minute walk of planned light rail transit stations is commonly referred to as the “station area.” Typically, this is where investments in transit infrastructure are expected to generate the greatest community opportunities and impacts. Most Bottineau Community Works program activities are focused on enhancements within station areas. Activities include:

• Improving mobility and connections for people walking, biking and rolling
• Increasing the impact of public and private investments in housing, commercial development and infrastructure
• Creating economic opportunity through increased access to jobs, as well as business recruitment and development
• Fostering healthy communities connected to regional services and amenities, educational institutions, public spaces and natural places

Map of planned station areas (PDF)

Minneapolis stations

Van White Boulevard

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF 6MB)

Penn Avenue station

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF 6MB)

Golden Valley/Minneapolis stations

Plymouth Avenue station

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF)

Golden Valley Road station

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF)

Robbinsdale station

42nd Avenue station

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF 5MB)

Crystal station

Bass Lake Road station

• Map (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF 6MB)

Brooklyn Park stations

63rd Avenue, Brooklyn Blvd, 85th Avenue, 93rd Avenue, Oak Grove Parkway stations

• Map – 63rd Avenue (PDF)
• Map – Brooklyn Blvd (PDF)
• Map – 85th Avenue (PDF)
• Map – 93rd Avenue (PDF)
• Map – Oak Grove Pkwy (PDF)
• Station area plan (PDF 7MB)

FTA grant for transit oriented development planning

Hennepin County recently completed work on a multi-year $1.2 million planning grant from the Federal Transit Administration to support advanced planning in several key subject areas to prepare for the opportunities of light rail in the Northwest Metro. Key tasks, reports, and outcomes are included below.

Task 1: Development plans

• City action tracker (PDF)
• Commercial market analysis (PDF)
• Station area development assessment (PDF)

Task 2: Infrastructure

• Shared mobility recommendations (PDF)
• Tech memo (PDF)
• Wayfinding report (PDF)
• Bottineau wayfinding project summaries (PDF)
• Pilot projects (PDF)
• Project summaries A-J (PDF)
• Project brochure (PDF)

Task 3: Housing

• Housing gaps analysis (PDF)
• Housing inventory (PDF)
• Housing investment framework (PDF)

Task 4: Economic Development

Marketing and Branding

• Northwest Crossing brand book (PDF)
• Northwest Crossing messaging matrix (PDF)

Bottineau Corridor Development Guide

• Vision plan interactive (PDF 63MB)

Tying Theory to Practice

• ULI progress report (PDF)
• Bottineau Corridor final report (PDF)

Youth Internships

• Brooklynk contract scope (PDF)
• Brooklynk proposal (PDF)
• 2018 HC subsidies total (PDF)

Small business support

• NDCACER Blueline workplan (PDF)
• NEON Bottineau workplan (PDF)
• Bottineau small business technical assistance outcomes (PDF)

Task 5: Innovative Financing (led by Metropolitan Council)

• TOD funding database (Excel)
• Funding for types of real estate (PDF)
• City projects (PDF)
• Executive summary (PDF)

Task 6: Community engagement

• Community engagement framework (PDF)
• Nexus final report (PDF)

LISC CDI work

• Robbinsdale CDI final report (PDF)
• 85th Avenue CDI Development Guidelines (PDF)

Infrastructure CE

• Round 1 Community Engagement report (PDF)
• Final infrastructure community engagement (PDF)

Development & Housing CE

• Tasks #1 & #3 CE summary (PDF)

Small business CE

• NDCACER scope of services (PDF)
• NEON scope of service (PDF)

Marketing and branding CE

• Marketing and branding CE report (PDF)

Wayfinding

• Wayfinding CE summary memo (PDF)

Report back community engagement

• Short term CE contract final report (PDF)

Communications materials

• Trifold single page draft (PDF)
• Draft presentation (PDF)

Cultivate Bottineau

Cultivate Bottineau: Culture, Community, and Commerce was a collaborative effort to activate spaces, build connections, celebrate diversity, and promote opportunity through local artist-led creative placemaking projects in the Bottineau Corridor. Supported by the McKnight Foundation, this project was coordinated by Hennepin County Bottineau Community Works and Springboard for the Arts in partnership with the cities of Minneapolis, Golden Valley, Robbinsdale, Crystal, and Brooklyn Park, and other community partners from January 2018 to October 2019.

Highlights

• Over 200 local artists were engaged, from a few hours at an information session or an art activity, to over dozens of hours to create a large commission.
• The nearly 50 lead artists worked with another 50 artists.
• Over 50% of the lead artists are artists of color.
• Nearly 50 collaborators worked with local artists.
• Over 4800 community members attended, participated in, or encountered a local artist-led project activity. This does not include people who view permanent projects (installations, murals) as they pass by.

Read more

• Final report (PDF)
• One-page overview (PDF)
• Cultivate Bottineau website
• Cultivate Bottineau on Instagram
• Cultivate Bottineau on Twitter

Other reports and plans

• Bottineau Community Works community engagement framework 2017–2019 (PDF)
• Planning for health in your station area (DOCX)
• Impact of the HEEC's work in the Ripple Effect Mapping report (PDF)
• Infrastructure Connectivity Project Community Engagement Report (PDF 32 MB)
• Robbinsdale LRT Station CDI final report (PDF)
• Brooklyn Park 85th Ave LRT Station development guidelines (PDF)
• Urban Land Institute Minnesota Technical Assistance Panel Report (PDF)
• Station Area development analysis (PDF 12 MB)
• Commercial market analysis (PDF 11MB)
• Bottineau Corridor housing gaps analysis (PDF 9MB)
• Bottineau Corridor housing inventory (PDF 5MB)
• Alternative analysis summary report (PDF)
• Typology matrix (PDF)
• Advancing equity handout (PDF)

Bottineau Transitway health impact assessment

• Bottineau Transitway Health Impact Assessment – final report (PDF)
• Bottineau Transitway summary report (PDF)
• Bottineau Transitway presentation (PDF)
• Bottineau Transitway HIA public comment report (PDF)
• Cov Lus Sojntsuam Xam Pom – Hmoob (PDF)
• Summary – Laotian (PDF)
• Soo koobid – Somali (PDF)
• Resumen – Español (PDF)