Community Cafe Bainbridge

In this 36-minute podcast, BCB interviews the proponents of the four proposals for the use of the City's 14-acre Suzuki property in Winslow, and we hear an overview of the property, the zoning and our Comprehensive Plan priorities from the City's Interim Planning Director Joe Tovar. The City purchased the 14-acre Winslow property more than 15 years ago to potentially serve as a location for a police building and court. Now that the City has determined that the Suzuki neighborhood is too residential and too close to several schools to be well-suited for a police building, the City proposes to sell the property to help raise funds for public projects such as police and court buildings elsewhere. In 2014, our City Council invited proposals that it could judge for both community priorities and purchase price. Four proposals emerged from four sets of partnering organizations - a combination of local nonprofits, a County housing agency, and local property investers, architects and designers. On the timeline of this