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4.3 Connecting the Community <br />4,3.1 Implement creative place-making <br />Crcative placc-making works with community members to bririg together arts and culture in <br />ways that connect physical space to needs in the communify. The goaiof this effort would be to <br />foster broader expioration of downtown by visitors while showcasing the talent of a local artist. <br />Ellensburg should explore working with an organizationlike the nonprofit pomegranate Center <br />based in Seattle that explores cteative place-making in communities as a partnershi! effort. <br />Creative place-making projects could be incorporated into the town center as well as create <br />pliysical corurcctions between CWU and downtown Ellensburg. Today, key stakeholders are <br />worlcing on an exciiing program to corurect through a public art program to create '.markers,, that <br />will be located in a variety of locations to explore between downtown and campus. The concept, <br />dubbed "Project Brilliance," wili implement reflector art pieces fi-orn the laie Dick Elliott, a <br />renowned local arlist to be placed in strategic locations throughout downtown Ellensburg to <br />ultimately connect the Old Heat Plant, slated to become a visitor's center for Central Washington <br />University, with the core of downtown, Figure 11 on the following page illustrates the potential <br />locations for these installations on key cofilers throughout the largei do*rrto*n ur"u. <br />4.3.2 Continae partnership with Central l{ashington I}niversity to bring investment into the <br />core of downtown aver tinte whether through progr&ms or capital projects, <br />Central Washington University is a strong partner with the Ellensburg community, and its <br />students represent a significant portion of the customer base in ciowntown. Over time, the <br />University and the Downtowners should seek partnership efforts that may bring programs or <br />even capital projects into the downtown. Some of the ideas expressed in other recommendations <br />ofthis report could be potential partnership projects. <br />4,3.3 rmplement bicycle friendly streets as idenffied in prior plans. <br />Ellensburg has worked on bicycle friendly streets and the downtown is very navigable bybicycle' The community should continue to implement these important recomrnendations andwill implernent new bicycle racks that have been designed in similar style to existing quality <br />downtown street fumiture. <br />4.3.4 Implement circulstor transportntionfrom CWU through downtown to hotels, <br />Central Transit already operates a fixed route system in Ellensburg. Over time, the possibitity of <br />a circulator that connects the local hotels through downtown and onto Central Washington,s <br />campus would be an excellent way of creating a regular service for visitors to the community. <br />The potential route is shown in Figure 11 below. <br />35