The report’s high impact and bold recommendations include:
Invest in Robust Anchor Partnerships with University of Maryland College Park (UMCP) and University of Maryland Capital Region Health (UMCRH). Determinedly pursue more robust and fully developed anchor partnerships with UMCP and UMCRH (as has been done with key institutions in Baltimore) as well as other key higher education and health stakeholders like Bowie State University, Prince George’s Community College, and Kaiser Permanente, among others.
Scale Up Support & Investment in Local Entrepreneurs. Scale up programs and initiatives that support local entrepreneurs by building up networks and greater access to capital as well as organizing core incubation and acceleration activities for those that are most promising.
Accelerate Equitable Transit-oriented Development. Accelerate equitable TOD projects in the three new downtowns (Largo Town Center, New Carrollton, and Prince George’s Plaza), along the Purple Line (Riverdale and Langley Park), and where new employment centers are planned or emerging (Branch Avenue, Suitland, and Greenbelt).
Leverage College Park Innovation District. Make the success of the College Park innovation district a top economic priority, continuing the investment of university, County, and private dollars so that it becomes one of the premier innovation hubs in the region.
Expand TNI Services and the Number of Communities It Serves. Expand the Transforming Neighborhoods Initiative (TNI) to further enable these underinvested communities and their residents to live in safe neighborhoods, with greater access to more amenities, in which high-quality community schools effectively serve students’ academic needs and aspirations and the social service needs of their families, and in which the impacts of environmental pollution are significantly reduced if not eliminated.
Significantly Increase the Use of Community Benefits Agreements. Commit to an ethos of well-structured and fair Community Benefits Agreements for all large-scale developments and for all smaller developments in which low-income neighborhood residents are at risk of adverse impacts.
Create a Cross-sector, Countywide Alliance for Equity and Prosperity. Implement a county-wide, multi-sector Alliance for Equity and Prosperity (All4Equity) that commits to implement policies, initiatives, and projects around this Prince George’s Rising framework. Utilize a similar alliance-based approach in projects and in policy-making (e.g., equitable TOD) that are more specific and bounded within this equity and prosperity framework.
You can read the executive summary or the full Prince George’s Rising report here.
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