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Item Staying on Eat Street Strategies to support community businesses on Nicollet Avenue and Lake Street(2018-05-08) Strait, Jen; Prideaux, Michael; Goodwin, Matthew; Dressel, ElizabethEat Street is a cultural corridor home to many thriving small businesses owned by immigrants and persons of color. While not all Eat Street restaurant owners are immigrants, the immigrant experience is central to the Eat Street story. “It’s a mixed culture here. It’s not one kind of people. Different position, different cultures, and different people. You have all kinds, all kinds of people” (Eat Street at 20, n.d., Harry Singh, owner of Harry Singh’s Original Caribbean Restaurant). The focus of this semester long research project is to provide targeted strategies that the City of Minneapolis Community Planning and Economic Development (CPED) department can take to support the immigrant and person of color owned businesses along Eat Street as they plan and prepare for projected economic revitalization with the potential reopening of Nicollet Avenue at Lake Street.Item Survey Design for the City of Ramsey Police and Fire Departments(Resilient Communities Project (RCP), University of Minnesota, 2018) Jelinek, Nicholas; Prideaux, Michael; Van Berkum, TylerThis project was completed as part of the 2017-2018 Resilient Communities Project (rcp.umn.edu) partnership with the City of Ramsey. The Ramsey Police Department provides safety training to local businesses, and serves as a first responder to any safety concerns these businesses have. While the department works hard to ensure quality service, they want to ensure they are truly meeting the needs of the business community. Students in PA 5311: Program Evaluation, taught by Pete Bernardy, worked with the Ramsey Police Department to develop a process evaluation survey that can be administered to local businesses to better understand their impressions of the department’s work, gauge the department's responsiveness to the community’s safety needs, compare these responses across business sectors to see if any sectors feel underserved, determine what crime-related issues business owners are most concerned about, and understand the preferred format for community safety trainings. The students’ final report, presentation, and survey tool are available.