SANTA FE, NM (WHTC-AM/FM) – Holland Mayor Nancy DeBoer is not in town as this week winds down.
She is in Santa Fe, New Mexico, attending the Mayors’ Institute on City Design technical assistance workshop through Friday. This group, which is a partnership with the National Endowment for the Arts and the US Conference on Mayors, brings mayors together with design and development experts to find solutions to challenging problems. Holland’s vision for repurposing the DeYoung Plant site along Lake Macatawa proved to be the ticket for landing DeBoer in this workshop. “You know that this institute (workshop) is by invitation only,” she said on “WHTC Morning News” last week, ” and it’s usually for cities way bigger that ours. Every once in a while, a mayor will contact (the MICD), and (DeBoer was told that) this was one of the best presentations that we have ever seen.”
Other cities involved in this session include: Akron, Ohio; Cheyenne, Wyoming; Piscataway, New Jersey, Henderson, Nevada; Stockton, California; Santa Rosa, California; and the host city of Santa Fe.
