The Hilltop Campus Village (HCV) annual meeting is set for Friday, June 12, at the MLK Interpretive Center, 501 Brady St., Davenport. The doors will open at 8:45 a.m. and the program begins at 9 a.m.
Go here to RSVP to attend the meeting.
The meeting’s keynote speaker will be Ann McGlynn, the founder and executive director of Davenport-based Tapestry Farms. (Tapestry Farms is a nonprofit urban farm system that invests in refugees who live in the Quad Cities. The organization focuses on three areas: growing food, offering social services, and building the community’s welcoming infrastructure.)
The meeting will also be a time to discuss business topics and other issues impacting the HCV.
“We will be talking about our projects that we have planned, celebrating funding that we have received, and showcasing other deliverables that we have been working on,” according to information from the Hilltop Campus Village.
The HCV recently unveiled its nearly 120-page Master Plan. That plan outlines ways to make the HCV a more welcoming place for businesses and people by improving streets and lighting; creating safety features for pedestrians; showcasing public art and signage; improving landscaping; and creating bicycle lanes and many other projects, according to Hilltop leaders.
Some of those projects — such as signage and murals — could be complete as early as this summer. Others, such as massive road work, curb extensions and traffic light additions, could take five to 10 years to realize.
“This master plan will help us do three things. It will help us lay out our goals and create ways we can measure success; it will help us tell the story of where we are going to our funders and stakeholders; and finally, it will help us showcase what we are planning to do for future developers, small business owners and residents of this area of Davenport,” said HCV Executive Director Brian Kramer, during the February meeting to unveil the plan.
The HCV is about 55 square blocks that roughly stretches south from Fifth Street in downtown Davenport to St. Ambrose University’s campus on the north and between Perry and Ripley streets on the east and west.
