Sundance Film Festival

with Sundance coming in, we might as well be tapping in on all the goodness of all the people showing up here

We will be collaborating with the Sundance Film Festival, bringing a native and indigenous cultural identity to the festival

not just to go to Sundance for 2 weeks. They're coming here to buy and to add to our hedge fund disasters

Sundance is not going to help us. Sundance is going to make this

They have blotted out, for example, the venues for the Sundance Film Festival and sort of based on their their their information

expenses um that we we will need to consider for the Sundance Film Festival

we didn't um budget in any positive impact from revenues from the Sundance Film Festival

based on the appropriate use of the word Sundance to raise all the money for the Botanic Gardens

mostly through the Sundance Film Festival, descendants of soldiers who are producers

from California associated with the the Sundance Film Festival to pour money into Boulder

by the city's selection as the future host of the Sundance Film Festival

Instead, we're having out oftowners come in and drive up the land value here considerably with Sundance. I don't support Sundance coming here at all.

Sundance is not going to stay in our town if we don't have the right infrastructure to support them

that space will be um obviously used quite a bit during the Sundance Film Festival

to help bolster up um for the Sundance uh film festival coming in January of next year

Are there particular projects that are being faster tracked due to Sundance

Request to approve Sundance weekend parking rate in 14th/Walnut garage for downtown

This was not brought to me as an issue with uh that's related to Sundance.

Can you say more about like is is this Sundance related?

We're thrilled about Sundance. We hope to benefit from merchandise, but as a small business

they have been clear um certainly in the leadup um to the Sundance Film Festival about the need for for downtown hotel rooms

the developers are committed to working with visit Boulder and major cultural event organizers s such as the Sundance Film Festival

whether the first edition of the Sundance Film Festival will be included in the base year for the sales tax

last year, we finally caught a break with the Sundance Film Festival. Two weeks on a global stage during our bleakest economic season.

just before Boulder welcomes the Sundance Festival, bringing one of the biggest boosts to the restaurant business our city has ever seen

Briefly just wanted to also chime in from a Sundance and Visit Boulder perspective

It would enable preparations for the Sundance Film Festival coming up in about 7 months.

amend mobile food vehicle standards related to special festival events, and amend the city’s sign code to regulate signs

just can you talk about Sundance and and the um plan to incorporate Sundance into our financial projections

we take a look at Sundance as a unique upside risk for Boulder

It fights back with Sundance, and Area 3, and the airport, and CU South.

acknowledges that we're in to Sundance, but that could be applicable to other large special festival events

These are some examples to give you a flavor of what signage could look like during the Sundance Film Festival

did we do any analysis of the a potential impact of Sundance in terms of our ability to have additional revenues

to Sundance, to all the people that it's gonna flood to Boulder.

with Sundance coming, and with a metropolitan District, we can't afford the water demand.

uh infrastructure into preparing for Sundance. And I think that's always a message that can be reiterated

The reason that this is important is because the office of film is the one that would provide the Sundance tax credit.

the research that we saw it was actually before Sundance Film Festival coming to Boulder was announced

Having Sundance Institute in town uh year-round, that is an entire new workforce of creatives coming into town

Sundance Film Festival and Sundance Institute are an incredible catalyst for all of this work.

a little bit of an outline of the sustainability features and plan and the operations plan for Sundance

we are in support of expanding the housing opportunities during the Sundance Film Festival

Everything is related to Sundance because it's money

they already know the dates for Sundance. So they would be able to go ahead and prepare their place

have a stronger liaison point between Sundance and the arts organizations, because I've been hearing from my liaison organizations

ways to focus that on Sundance such that we would be pricing for services that are specific to or I guess like oriented to Sundance

as a part of our overall um contract with uh the Sundance Institute.

I also think we should be looking at the sales tax for services especially with Sundance

Sundance is no panacea. Sundance is going to be the destruction of Boulder.

We've got, like, 60,000 people set up to come to this town, including Sundance, CU South, Area 3.

most notably things tied to Sundance, but not exclusively so

we are approaching the DDA at a really good time with that, using 2026 revenues with the idea that Sundance is 2027.

with Sundance coming, I could see their bit of, challenge that Sundance is really coming to Chautauqua

And now we have Sundance coming, and the dynamics of Sundance on Boulder are huge.

working with Sundance in order to optimize what kind of services they can provide.

that I do not support Sundance um do not absolutely

doing Sundance, which the economics impact advisor with the with the chamber says is like COVID or the Marshall fire

and then of course Sundance I think there's definitely some some light industrial opportunities

how they were going to be impacted or partnering with Sundance

We've got Sundance. We've got We've got so many problems we have no idea of.

In the same sense, Sundance has come here. There's huge subsidies to bring it.

Sundance coming here is no benefit, is no panacea, No. It's an impending nightmare.

It's not getting any better. with Sundance? and with the 55th and Arapahoe site

Tax short-term renters egregiously. That is take the Sundance money and run with it.

everybody will be preparing for the Sundance Film Festival.

you should explore doing a documentary of this. with Sundance.

I am not a big fan of offsets, however, that's what Sundance does right now.

So, we've been meeting with the Sundance Sustainability team. They have a committee.

lots of coordination with Sundance specifically, coordination with CU, a lot of entities who really want to help

as we were designing this project, Sundance landed in Boulder, and we think that this project is gonna be the future for Sundance.

it is Sundance, so you shouldn't have let me speak in open comment

But, you know, I know enough to know. Sundance is not helping Boulder! It's not!

there's a big movement towards helping homeowners rent out during Sundance

it's kind of a way that you can leverage the economy of Sundance or the digital nomad community

I know last time there was some concerns about Sundance and how they're gonna partner with nonprofits.

They're going to be ready for Sundance, and the goal is to keep the space open for an additional 200 days a year.

so many people in town are constrained by Sundance coming here, and higher and higher costs

as Boulder entertains Sundance and more and more exclusive, things that are gonna make this town feel more

Everyone is gonna live here with Sundance, with the Millennium

In order to get the festival here in the first place

we do is an 11-day festival. That will, start in January 2027

in planning for the Sundance Film Festival, and how that eventually, led to this contract

I would prefer to have this in place prior to the short-term rental effect at Sundance

And probably the same people that are doing that are likely working on Sundance stuff

It is no secret that Sundance is coming to us next year, and that is gonna take a lot of time and energy

but again, with Sundance. All that could change, so, yeah.

it's definitely a possibility, especially with Sundance on the horizon

approving incentives offered to the Sundance Institute and authorizing the general manager to negotiate and execute a lease

having the Sundance Film Festival come to Boulder starting in 2027 is going to be uh transformative for our cultural scene

We have this um on consent, the agreement with the Sundance Institute.

which will be used to offset some capital investments including Sundance Film Festival future expenses.

not affiliated with Sundance, but during Sundance, where they get, 30 high school students

I've been hearing, concern in the community about, competition, fundraising, with Sundance.

instead of the documentary showing truth and reconciliation targeted for the Sundance Film Festival.

That's why we need to bring Sundance to town to make it even worse.

we will make sure we don't impact the inaugural Sundance Film Festival

We're already seeing luxury homes in Boulder assembled for rentals for Sundance.

the impacts we're having with the Sundance coming here and with all of the massive growth

Another thing to consider, possibly, is with, planning 26… 2027 is, festival for Sundance.

The community connectors and residents brought forth potential, like, conflicts, or to encourage collaboration, especially with Sundance Film Festival

It is not specific to Sundance Film Festival.

I think there is opportunity to renegotiate the contract, potentially as soon as next year, given all that's gonna change in Sundance

so this relates to the Sundance Film Festival, the Pearl Streets 50th anniversary

How can Sundance be considered any benefit? It's going to be here, unfortunately, for 10 years

The last thing we need is to accommodate Sundance. Sundance shouldn't be here at all.

giving us more hotel rooms that we're going to need for Sundance.

we thought maybe it would be done for Sundance, and… but then you weren't going to escalate time frame to do that

With them, with Sundance coming in, as well as an opportunity for either a downtown development district

Yes, there is potential collaboration, and we're definitely open to it.

to make sure that that is, very successful. Someone said once I heard

Sundance was really involved in it as well. They had a lot of Sundance staff, our local staff.

one of the things Sundance has found is that, like, people would rent their facilities only during Sundance

One of them will be Sundance. So Sundance will be mostly, in indoor spaces

I just appreciate the fact that with Sundance coming to town, it's the shiny object that everybody's excited about

we also have to consider the upcoming needs of Sundance

Sundance, and CU South, and everything else that's just grow, grow, grow, make it more and more

And then throw in Sundance, and throw in CU South, and throw in, where do we put the homeless camping now?

we wanted to get this in place prior to Sundance, so that people can find parking

the fact that Sundance is coming, and I thought, you know, people were wanting selfies

that we'd get Sundance coming to Boulder, and that we would have this wonderful two-way ballot measure

And thinking about our visitor economy, especially with Sundance in our future.

the influence of Sundance will have on our community

connecting with kind of counterparts um in in Park City to learn about for the Sundance Film Festival specifically

the 2027 uh Sundance Film Festival which we anticipate

the host city of the Sundance Film Festival uh starting in 2027 and beyond

Stop the endless Massive amounts of growth. Sundance, CU South, Area 3 Planning Reserve.

how are we going to plan for the future when we've got Sundance coming here, when we've got CU South

In alignment with the economically vital goal, the budget proposes funding for Sundance Film Festival preparation and the ambassador program.

We're not calling Sundance out, but it's really calling out business hours

calling Sundance out specifically and developing a policy around that

Is there a policy that specifically calls out Sundance?

I'm also concerned about the civic space development being oriented towards Sundance, rather than the community and the residents

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Sundance, that's not CU, but Sundance is going to bring all of these entities, the limelight.

Sundance, Limelight, you know, CU South, Planning Reserve, all of these developments

look at what we've got coming here, Sundance, we've got the roots. Music Festival that's preceding sundance

many leaders in the community have now realized the significant economic contradiction which can come from the Sundance film festival

They are excited about sundance and are making really great connections with sundance

Sundance was just the Sundance Film festival was just in town last week to start the real heavy duty planning

2027 would be the 1st year of the Sundance Film festival.

with the 2027 Sundance Festival, or is the Parks department getting an additional infusion of money just to sort of prepare

We're going to be home to the Sundance Film Festival.

it will really help as we move into the Sundance planning, where we'll be very much looking at.

I see this work, as also some initial foundations for future sundance work.

and how venues might need to be supported for the Sunday Film Festival. What else we need to do for the Sundance Film Festival

So, having an event like sundance, where we attract a lot of hopefully tax aim.

the whole Sundance Festival, and you know I I don't have a good sense of the vision there

how about Sundance Event Center? 2500 people. That's a lot of water.

we've already started to talk about some of the executives from some dance attending summits

on the sundance who in the city is responsible, or is communicating with the arts organizations about sundance

this obviously would have some relevance to uh related to the arrival of Sundance

have Sundance um in our future and I think a lot of part of the interest in Boulder has to do with kind of our local feel

opportunities like hosting the Sundance Film Festival has elevated the importance of cultural investment and planning

I mean, we all know that one of the reasons why sundance is coming to Boulder is because of our historic sites.

having getting ahead of the curve with the sundance stuff for what we might need to do

There's a lot of key focus areas that my office is working with sundance on.

we have this opening now with sundance. And we're deeply involved with the organizers around.

the whole sundance issue is gonna call for us to probably reevaluate some of those things.

And with sundance coming we will likely be redoing a lot of the occupancy limits in Park City.

Obviously, we're excited as everyone else is for sundance.

working collaboratively to make sure the new conference center and Sundance Film Festival are successful

there are like tens and tens of people involved in getting it to come over the bid

the Sundance Film festival, and I know that you know we don't

Sundance Sundance is putting in a hundred 20 person hotel.

But then also wanting to acknowledge the new partnerships coming to town with Sundance

Sundance is going to bring this town down. It's not up, it's down.

The film festival relocating to Boulder identified our community as a place of tolerance.

First, congratulations to Boulder for landing the uh the Sundance Film Festival

including a large potential partner like Sundance coming in 2026 will do technical documentation

The Sundance Film festival, when it comes to Boulder in 2027 is going to live on the Pearl Street Mall

So with the concept of sundance coming, I assume you'd really lean into that.

room tax, or whatever it's called room contribution, is being earmarked for the sundance bid

maybe have Sundance in which case they're going to have a stake and how we think about that area

maybe have Sundance in which case they're going to have a stake and how we think about that area

we got a little sidelined with the Sundance thing coming into town but we were planning on launching

I'm the main lead for the Sundance Film Festival coming to to Boulder starting in 2025

We organized a flash mob to welcome the Sundance Institute to town.

we don't want to get Sundance film festival then, and say one year, and like, Hey, that was fun.

They're anticipating January, February of next year to make a decision on whether they stay or go to a new location

But sundance curious! There's any what the timetable for some of that decision is.

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