2022-03-09T15:57:07-07:00 2021-04-30 990 2020-05-01 742640134 AUSTIN DMO INC AUST 5124691766 515 Congress Avenue Austin TX 78701 Dewitt Peart President and CEO 7372223648 2022-03-10 0 11 1 AAL2 X 2020 2022-09-23 18:48:47Z Downtown Austin Alliance Dewitt Peart 515 Congress Avenue Suite 2150 Austin TX 78701 10424318 0 X downtownaustin.com X 1993 TX The Downtown Austin Alliance's mission is to enhance the value and vitality of downtown Austin Alliance through a number of services and advocacy works that include litter pickup, graffiti removal, ambassador teams, advocacy for social services for homeless population, for parks and open spaces, and arts. 46 46 25 65 0 0 8868447 10085629 368783 325558 9436 13131 -47699 0 9198967 10424318 477850 354437 0 0 3269721 3253145 0 0 116307 5507956 5029985 9255527 8637567 -56560 1786751 3862489 4788659 2625478 1764897 1237011 3023762 The Downtown Austin Alliance's mission is to creat, preserve, and enhance the value and vitality of downtown Austin. 0 0 3421049 25800 325558 Safety and Hospitality:The Downtown Ambassadors are the cornerstone of our direct services program. Every day our team of 46 ambassadors works from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. removing trash and pressure washing streets. In March 2020, the Ambassadors began performing daily, enhanced sanitization of downtown infrastructure including benches, light posts and door handles. They also maintained four public handwashing stations we installed in high-traffic areas. The Ambassadors wear masks and gloves and follow strict social distancing protocols. While cleaning was the Ambassadors' top priority this year, they also continued to beautify the area through painting and planting projects. We support safety on all fronts downtown. We continue to provide funding to enhance APD's safety camera system throughout the area, which helps prevent and solve crimes. We also fund an overtime patrol that provides two additional Austin Police Department (APD) officers in the downtown PID 12 hours a day, 7 days a week. These officers patrol on bikes for a true community policing effort. The Downtown Ambassadors support APD by asking people to comply with ordinances, referring people to social services and reporting urgent issues to law enforcement. The Ambassadors provide safety escorts to help people get to or from their cars or transit, upon request. They also provide hospitality to pedestrians, from friendly greetings to directions, information and navigation. The Ambassadors are welcoming to all people downtown, including our most vulnerable residents. In August 2020, the Ambassadors began passing out bottled water to people experiencing homelessness. The goal was to provide relief to people struggling with a lack of shelter on a hot day during a pandemic-and to initiate a caring dialogue. This simple act of kindness, along with the fact that many Ambassadors have experienced homelessness themselves, made people comfortable talking about the help they needed. The Ambassadors were able to then connect them with services. Overall, this relationship-building approach increased responsiveness and cooperation among the homeless community. We have since dubbed this initiative Project Outreach and expanded it to meet other needs. In the winter we held supply drives among the downtown community to gather and distribute gloves, scarves and hats to people experiencing homelessness. The Ambassadors have used these interactions to talk about proper trash and recycling disposal, and we've seen a decrease in litter downtown as a result. Our services by the numbers: 27,806 hospitality contacts, 4,934,826 square feet power washed, 601 safety escorts, 262,992 pounds of trash removed. 1510235 0 0 Research and Strategic Communication:The Downtown Austin Alliance's research team conducts primary research on downtown-related issues and also compiles and analyzes third-party research. Our website is a central repository for data on economic development, real estate, mobility trends and more. This information enables members of our team and the downtown community to make data-driven decisions as we work together to shape our future. We published our 2021 State of Downtown Report, which uses market data to give a comprehensive account of downtown's economic impact, health and vitality. We provided high level takeaways on COVID-19's impact on downtown. We also featured mobility, parks, and live music highlights. We view research as a critical tool in helping the downtown community respond to and recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. This year we conducted and compiled extensive research on the pandemic's effects on life and business downtown. We also began regularly surveying Austin residents to understand the community's current perceptions of downtown, reasons contributing to their response, and frequency of respondents' visits to downtown. We continue to track downtown's development pipeline, which includes projects recently delivered, currently under construction and planned. An interactive map is published quarterly to our website. A 3-D map of these projects was also published in the 2021 State of Downtown Report. We keep downtown property owners, businesses, residents and visitors updated on downtown news, events and development through our weekly newsletter, social media, local media and our website. Our website is a go-to resource for our research, data and development updates. COVID-19: Keeping the Community Informed At the onset of the pandemic, we changed our website and newsletters to become some of the city's most comprehensive resources for COVID-related information. We increased our newsletter frequency to twice per week and provided the downtown community with regular updates on business closure guidelines, social distancing protocols and financial relief options. As the year went on and public health restrictions changed, we began promoting safe ways for residents to enjoy downtown and support local businesses. Tools for Transparency We also invested in new tools and systems to help our team members more effectively share information with each other and with our members and partners. To increase transparency, we launched a portal where all Downtown Austin Alliance members can access our organization's agendas, plans and meeting notes, and we started a newsletter just for members. Our new customer relationship management system also enables us to better target our communications to different groups within the downtown community. This will be especially helpful in times of crisis, as we saw during Winter Storm Uri. Future of Downtown Television Broadcast Instead of moving our annual Future of Downtown event (at which we unveil the State of Downtown Report) to a virtual format, we decided to instead produce a 30-minute television show for the entire community. The Future of Downtown Austin, which aired June 21, 2020, on KVUE and KXAN, informed viewers how the pandemic has impacted downtown and what the Downtown Austin Alliance is doing to support the response, recovery and resilience of our urban core. We were able to purchase the airtime with support from 12 of our partners. We have total 37,100 social media followers. 941707 120000 0 Planing and Urban Mobility:The Downtown Vision calls for a growing and ever-evolving tapestry of complete, vibrant and walkable neighborhoods and districts that express Austin's authentic character. As downtown's steward, not only are we at the center of all active district planning projects, but we also ensure all parties have a holistic view of how the districts will work together to enhance downtown's vitality. Despite this year's challenges, we kept these long-term projects moving forward. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is planning to reconstruct I-35 through Central Austin as part of the I-35 Capital Express Central Project. Initial plans for the first significant upgrade in 50 years to this approximately 10-mile stretch called for removing the upper decks and lowering the highway between Airport Boulevard and Cesar Chavez Street. Construction could begin as early as 2025 at an estimated cost of $5 billion. As TxDOT considers changes to this major north-south thoroughfare that has divided our community for decades, the Downtown Austin Alliance and the City of Austin have partnered with a diverse group of Austin leaders to co-create a shared vision that builds on this investment to ensure the best outcomes for all Austinites. By transforming I-35 through the heart of our city, we can invest in our community, improve all forms of transportation and create community parks, bridges and other amenities where the highway stands now. Austin's emerging Innovation District, located in downtown's northeastern corner, will be a hub for the region's life sciences, health care and technology industries. In 2019, the Downtown Austin Alliance commissioned a market analysis to measure the potential economic impact of the Innovation District over the next 10 years. The goal of the study was to guide the creation of inclusive, place-based, and market-guided economic development and real estate strategies for the Downtown neighborhood anchored by the University of Texas at Austin's new Dell Medical School, Dell Seton Medical Center, and the Central Health Downtown campus. A holistic and actionable plan for the eastern half of downtown has been our long-time priority. We are engaged with our partners on a Palm District Planning Process that will tie together several initiatives. The Cypress and Shoal Creek Public Space Strategy is a partnership between Shoal Creek Conservancy and the Downtown Austin Alliance to improve safety, access, and connectivity for people on foot and bike in the area around Shoal Creek and 3rd Street. This area is a gateway to important destinations for Austinites citywide, such as the Central Library and the Butler Trail. To ensure that all Austinites can visit these places, we must make it easier and safer to reach this area by foot, bike, or bus, and make it simpler to navigate once you have arrived. The name is a nod to the historical nomenclature for Austin's east-west running streets, originally named after trees. What we now know as 3rd Street was originally known as Cypress Street. Mobility is the lifeline of a healthy, thriving downtown. With Austin's population projected to double by 2040, we need wide-ranging, forward-thinking transportation solutions to keep our urban core accessible. As we navigated the immediate challenges of the pandemic and planned for recovery, we also continued our work on the large, long-term infrastructure projects that will transform downtown. The Downtown Austin Alliance initiated a Downtown Circulator Study in February 2020 to determine the most viable option for a transit circulator. Representatives from Capital Metro and Austin Transportation Department were invited to the project kickoff meeting to help establish goals and identify opportunities and challenges. The initial goals of the study were to develop an implementation plan for a transit circulator to improve downtown mobility and enhance connectivity with adjacent districts. Over the course of the study, which was conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic, an additional goal emerged: support the economic recovery of downtown businesses and institutions. 1627177 208637 0 Economic Developmen, Public Space Activation, Homelessness,and Advocay:While our response effort began immediately and is ongoing, adapting to ever-changing conditions, we have also spent the past year developing Downtown Austin's Roadmap to Recovery and Resilience. This is a plan for renewing downtown's vitality in the short term while simultaneously building the area's long-term resilience. It is informed by meetings, workshops, surveys and focus groups with the Downtown Alliance's staff and board members (who represent a broad array of government, community and business sectors) between October 2020 and February 2021. As we focus on the recovery and resilience priorities outlined in the roadmap, we will:Make downtown more diverse and inclusive.Infuse best practices in intentional placemaking.Develop new partners, coalitions, funding and tools. Guide the creation and implementation of a strategy to address unsheltered homelessness in downtown. Work with partners to significantly reduce unsheltered homelessness. Reduce the number experiencing unsheltered homelessness in the downtown area by 50% by 2022. Fund and advise efforts to deliver comprehensive health care services to the homeless downtown. Elevate inclusive and engaging programs and experiences in downtown parks and public spaces. Substantially expand and coordinate programming in downtown parks and trails. Regularly sponsor and produce arts, cultural and music events and programs in the public space. Use activation metrics to monitor and improve results. Support the preservation and recovery of downtown's small, locally-owned businesses and live music. Actively advocate for needed financial support for downtown's small, locally-owned businesses and live music scene (including shops, restaurants, bars and cultural destinations).Ensure that street-level vacancies are creatively activated and enlivened.Conduct a regular census of downtown storefront businesses and use it to track and ensure progress. Publicize downtown's appeal and promote interesting and enjoyable experiences downtown. Execute targeted promotional campaigns under a comprehensive strategy to promote downtown's vitality. Promote downtown Austin as a lively and multi-faceted destination. 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Sustainable Food Center 2921 E 17th Street Bldg C Austin TX 78702 742441468 10000 Support for Downtown Austin Farmers Market operation. Austin Community Foundation 4315 Guadalupe Street Suite 300 Austin TX 78752 741934031 50000 To benefit Transit Austin. 4 6 Schedule I, Part I, Line 2 The organization provides grants that advances its mission and enages with the organizations and follow up with the progress and outcomes by requesting progress report. 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Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 12c Each officer, director, and members annually signs a statement that affirms has received a copy of the conflict of interest policy, and has read and understands the policy, and agree to comply with the policy. Form 990, Part VI, Section B, Line 15 The compensation committee reviews every two years, salary history and comparability data and makes recommendation to the board. Form 990, Part VI, Section C, Line 19 The organization's yearly budget and service plan goes throughthe City of Austin Councile public hearing and approval process. Most of the organization's meeting are open to any one who is interested. The organization provides financial and audit report through it member portal in our web-site including board meeting agenda and relevant documents for the meeting. Form 990, Part IX, Line 11g Contract services for related to cleaning the streets and ambassador service, PR consulting, public safety, parking study, holiday tree listed in Part VII B and other contract services. Downtown Austin Development Corp Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation 515 Congress Avenue Suite 2150 Austin TX 78701 742862219 Enhance Downtown Austin through public space activations TX 501(C)(3) N/A Downtown Austin Parks LLC 515 Congress Avenue Suite 2150 Austin TX 78701 813205548 Create Vibrant urban space at the heart of Austin, Texas TX 501(C)(3) N/A 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 Downtown Austin Development Corp Downtown Austin Alliance Foundation b 20000 Cash Downtown Austin Parks LLC b 140000 Cash The organization filed for 6 month extension on time.