Economic Development Board - Regular Meeting

Okay. I guess we're calling our meeting to order. Do we have a quorum? Yes.

No. First thing after our call to order is the visitation survey.

And you reach out to like every business? I mean, how do you, how does the reach out happen?

Does the Central Business District include Plaza?

That's what I was thinking. The plaza, it has to be more than 2019 because you have all those additional offices.

But they're in plazas, so they don't show up here.

I'm sure this weekend activity growth is also all, you know, some of the new apartment buildings that have delivered since 2019. I'm sure. Sophia Reserve. Now you have the Artisan Crafts. It's open. You know, we've got a lot more people that are just living here on the weekends that would walk into that. Yep.

If we're trying to get Friday off, could we, I mean, is there a campaign you could work on with some restaurants or something like Employee Appreciation Fridays or something where there's some pre-fixed lunch deal where for $25 a person, you could take your team to lunch or something like that to get businesses to bring people in on Friday? Okay. And then it's just a simple, you don't have to think too much about it. It's like, okay, this is already preset for you. Everybody has an option of a few different things they can choose, but the last Friday of the month or whatever the.

Yeah, even if it's not necessarily a deal, but it's just easy, right?

Like this is for you to bring your employees to lunch and we have a table for 10 people and, you know.

Have you looked at, I'm just curious, like, how does a coconut grove compare?

I mean, it's a good comparison, but I'm just kidding.

Gotcha. Or are there other cities that... You looked at or it was just it was just downtown.

Yeah, no, I mean, I don't know if we need to.

So they are... What's Friday? Is it a similar trend in downtown? I mean, Brickell's up, but I'm just curious.

It'll be whatever they applied with the first time.

How do they insure businesses that's allowed businesses to do it?

So the report's going to be really long.

Anybody who likes bagels, though, we've got another two. Looks like two new bagel tickets coming.

Call Your Mother. Did I hear on Monster's going to be another one, though?

It's going to be at the. Capital of Miami.

Thank you, do we have a motion to adjourn SEC and move it move it sorry. Great. We are adjourned. Thank you.