Resource Plan
Local Corporations need to be active in sponsoring the future of these lighting projects. Corporations would then be awarded plaques or signs to go outside their facilities to show their involvement.
Resources to help grow initiative: human capital and physical items
- Retail owners to get involved and enhance community/retail property
- Educate entire area, use media, e.g.: show before and after of Gordon park Renovation
- Critical areas to light – destinations
- Start by making businesses visually attractive and then proceed to residential areas
- Leverage energy efficient lighting, whole building as opposed to outside approach, internal, external. Cost savings?
- Can you grow from leveraging? We need to attract neighboring properties to the lighting initiative
- Bulk purchasing program for the lighting initiative. Buy at a lower rate to drive down price, go outside of municipality, schools/university, e.g.: Louisville
- Communication is key!!! Speak up to be included.
- Implement with strategic plan in mind
- Need someone to keep pushing projects, need a buy in, look at building owners/tenants, budget dollars, energy cost/maintenance cost.
- Who do we need to talk to about assistance for this lighting initiative?
- Cost savings available if done appropriately
- Stop passing the buck, what is needed to get organizations involved.
- Have signs on streets to show who sponsored project
- “Chris Ronayne”- We can immediately declare Cleveland as the lighting capital of North America, and allow others to attempt to disprove it if they choose to do so.
- Utilize in promotional ads/letterhead/ publicize
- Get individuals and local corporations active and interested in sponsoring future lighting projects.
- Avoid municipalities, as they are typically over budget and difficult to retain interest (as far as maintaining the completed sites).
- Individuals and corporations would be awarded plaques or signs to be displayed on-site (such as you would see on a highway sign, church pews, gardens, etc.) to help generate the initial sponsorship.
- Working with large corporate sponsors to gift bulbs or at least discount them for large bulk purchase orders.
- LED is recommended since it lasts nearly 40 times longer than incandescent bulbs. This minimizes the need to seek additional funding in later years for the up-keep of the complete site and is simply much more efficient.
- Need Grants
- Use existing utility funding
- Get Energy off the Grid
Awareness Plan
Get individual community members involved as advocates of the cause to spread the word. Use the heritage of lighting in Ohio to create an appealing spin to get people involved. Show the “before and after” streetscapes of the project to bring people back to Cleveland neighborhoods. Have annual large events such as a parade using trolleys to tour the area. Make Cleveland the Lighting Capital of the world.
- Show the before and after streetscapes of the project to Bringing people back to Cleveland neighborhoods.
- Have annual large events such as a parade using trolleys to tour the area.
- Make Cleveland the Lighting Capital of the world.
- Private/Public partnership
- Business and Building ownership
- Create a music show in those neighborhoods to draw people to a lighting ceremony
- Create a Model as a guide
- Conduct tours of the area
- Full page ads in newspaper
- Get individual community people as advocates of the cause to spread the word.
- Use the heritage of lighting in Ohio to create an appealing spin to get people involved.
Sustainable Plan
Have Utility Companies support the Lighting initiative. Use energy efficient light bulbs for a shorter payback. Apply for grants. Join all lighting companies, designers, suppliers and installers to keep this lighting initiative evolving. Allow business owners, community development corporations, residents, chambers of commerce, and the government to meet several times a year to converse and support the lighting initiative.
VISION
To connect all individuals who are interested in getting involved in the community with a nonprofit organization whose mission is compatible with their passions and interests.
OPERATIONS
Operational issues: resources to support group, have 2-3 organizations come together, politics of board can be distracting, engage younger talent, cross training between groups, databases
MARKETING
Utilize existing base of membership, donors, have time to be involved.
FINANCES
Capital, have 2-3 organizations come together to work on fundraising, ask for donations, run a gift shop for fundraising
Chris Ronayne:
2005 quick survey on neighborhood – 3 appreciating neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio city and Detroit shoreway as well as lighting up the bridges over Cuyahoga river, allowed us to claim Cleveland at the time to be in a global network of cities that were also lighting up their neighborhoods. This 10,000 lighting project is to help build these neighborhoods for safety, integrity, character, and esthetic. The Region has a beautiful stock of buildings; let’s light them up. If you want to see people you need light. Simply create pedestrian path lighting in Rockefeller Park.
Matt Zone:
Detroit Shoreway has 2 projects going on: to make the neighborhood safe, and to improve the quality of life, & the Gordon square neighborhood streetscape plan (3.5 million dollar project) to improve the neighborhood starting in May 2008. This project will start with W.65th and Detroit: bring arts to life, first state route to reduce roadway, increase sidewalk, bury utilities to help buildings come to life and add to the charm of the community.
Joe Cimperman:
Story about Lincoln park: civil war soldiers camped on it, it was not publicly owned, Lucy Pelp wanted to build wooden fence around park, the park was burned down 7 times by people of Tremont, so Lucy sold it the to city. In 2000, Tremont applied for a national grant and the park became public again, free of drug dealers and it was lit-up.
Marybeth Gotti (GE Consumer & Industrial Lighting):
Lighting institute: 6,000 people a year come to learn about lighting, energy efficiency, reduce pollution, and to work with professionals at Tech. Inc. 1879 GE started, University of Lights since 1913, automatic traffic signal, 1930’s Euclid avenue had largest 6 mile stretch of lighting, lighting of bridges in flats won an award. We are a lighting capital, we have heritage of lighting. Why can’t we be the city of lights! Passionate about lighting and wants to support 10,000 lights.
Terry Kilborne, Tec Inc. :
Accentuate buildingscapes and lighting. Highlight architectural details. Add lighting in trees, and add to building facades. Sensitive to environment, energy conscious,
3 tasks: illumination of walkways, gardens, bridges (they are historic, and beautiful structures).
Chris Ronayne:
2005 quick survey on neighborhood – 3 appreciating neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio city and Detroit shoreway as well as lighting up the bridges over Cuyahoga river, allowed us to claim Cleveland at the time to be in a global network of cities that were also lighting up their neighborhoods. This 10,000 lighting project is to help build these neighborhoods for safety, integrity, character, and esthetic. The Region has a beautiful stock of buildings; let’s light them up. If you want to see people you need light. Simply create pedestrian path lighting in Rockefeller Park.
Chris Ronayne:
2005 quick survey on neighborhood – 3 appreciating neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio city and Detroit shoreway as well as lighting up the bridges over Cuyahoga river, allowed us to claim Cleveland at the time to be in a global network of cities that were also lighting up their neighborhoods. This 10,000 lighting project is to help build these neighborhoods for safety, integrity, character, and esthetic. The Region has a beautiful stock of buildings; let’s light them up. If you want to see people you need light. Simply create pedestrian path lighting in Rockefeller Park.
Chris Ronayne:
2005 quick survey on neighborhood – 3 appreciating neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio city and Detroit shoreway as well as lighting up the bridges over Cuyahoga river, allowed us to claim Cleveland at the time to be in a global network of cities that were also lighting up their neighborhoods. This 10,000 lighting project is to help build these neighborhoods for safety, integrity, character, and esthetic. The Region has a beautiful stock of buildings; let’s light them up. If you want to see people you need light. Simply create pedestrian path lighting in Rockefeller Park.
Chris Ronayne:
2005 quick survey on neighborhood – 3 appreciating neighborhoods: Tremont, Ohio city and Detroit shoreway as well as lighting up the bridges over Cuyahoga river, allowed us to claim Cleveland at the time to be in a global network of cities that were also lighting up their neighborhoods. This 10,000 lighting project is to help build these neighborhoods for safety, integrity, character, and esthetic. The Region has a beautiful stock of buildings; let’s light them up. If you want to see people you need light. Simply create pedestrian path lighting in Rockefeller Park.
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