An eleven-member task force, that was formed last night, will bring together North Shore business owners and stakeholders to help revitalize the Tranquille Corridor.

North Shore Business Improvement Association (NSBIA) Executive Director Jeremy Heighton says they’ll be putting together and prioritizing a list of projects.

“We’ll be determining which ones we as a business community can act on, which ones we can send over to the city and say ‘we’d like this on the supplemental budget process or the capital budget process’, and which ones we’ll have to shelve for a little while until the situation is right, or the money is right or the people at the table are right,” he said, in an interview.

In addition to the new task force, Heighton adds they’re also doing a community planning process ahead of the city’s rewrite of the North Shore Community Plan later this year.

“What [the city] will do is have a robust community input process, and that’s a broad community input process,” Heighton said. “Out plan at the NSBIA is more specific to our business corridors.”

He notes there will be about six weeks of input sessions starting in mid-February, and called the Tranquille Corridor is the “gateway” onto the North Shore from the rest of the city.

“The Tranquille Task Force is mostly about immediate actions we can take,” Heighton noted. “Whether it’s about rehabilitating some of our planters, what are we looking at with treescapes, or if there are opportunities for park spaces. Those types of things.”

“The business owners at large can always put in ideas to us, but they can also feed in through this planning process.”

The goal will be to engage the task force over not just the next twelve months, but also on things they can achieve this summer.