Confluence Project supporters at the Eau Claire City Council work session - Monday, July 15.

We recently launched a website for a citizen’s interest group called Community for the Confluence. These are regular, everyday people who support the vision and goals behind the Confluence Project in downtown Eau Claire – people who want to do whatever they can to help it come to fruition for the betterment of our community. What is the vision? It’s leveraging the continued economic development of Eau Claire through a new multi-use arts and performance venue, public plaza, and privately-owned (taxable!) housing and retail complex in the beating heart of the city. It’s a red-hot spark for enhanced tourism, increased tax base, downtown revitalization, cultural investment, and educational opportunity all wrapped up together right on the banks of the Chippewa and Eau Claire rivers. If you think you may be one of the people who share that vision, helping shape our community’s future can be as simple as adding your name in support online and emailing City Council and County Board members, or it can be something more like showing up at a City Council meeting or even helping organize the group’s efforts. (Yes! They need help!). Anyone can be a part of the group – in big or small ways – by first visiting CommunityfortheConfluence.org and learning more. If we can all pull together, they’ll hear us. But it all starts with that first step ...