Redevelopment

Planning District I contains three Title 36 redevelopment areas: 1) downtown; 2) Southeast Community; and 3) South Jefferson Park. The Maritime Center Plan, discussed earlier, provides the vision for downtown. The Southeast Community Corridor Redevelopment Plan and the South Jefferson Park Redevelopment Plan have several components to eliminate blighting influences in the Southeast Community and promote housing development and job creation. These components include:

  • The Jefferson Avenue Corridor is the historic commercial center of the Southeast Community.
  • The Jefferson/Terminal Avenue tract is approximately 16 acres proposed for a new mixed use development, including housing, retail stores, and a grocery store.
  • The 25th/26th Street Corridor containing the Madison Heights community which is targeted for first time home buyers.
  • The 39th Street and Marshall Avenue site, which is a 5.3-acre commercial or industrial site.

Southeast Community Waterfront

The martin Luther King, Jr., Plaza and the Jefferson Avenue streetscape improvements will provide new gateways into the Southeast community.  A study for this area was completed in 2007 by Chan Krieger Sieniewicz.  The Southeast Community Urban Waterfront Design Study covers the area bounded by I-664, the city line, Hampton Roads waterway and 25th Street.  The purpose of the study was to develop a vision for the future of the waterfront that recommends changes to the physical fabric of the area that would support the existing community while simultaneously attracting much needed private investment.


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The Southeast Community Urban Waterfront Design Study covers the area bounded by I-664, the city line, Hampton Roads waterway and 25th Street. Source: Southeast Urban Waterfront Study (Popup full image) 
 

The recommendations of the study are listed below.

Access and Gateways

  • Improve access to the water’s edge.http://nngov.limehouse.com/creation/#
  • Improve connections between existing neighborhoods, the water, and parks to enhance view corridors and public ways as the area redevelops.
  • Redesign the 12th Street exit ramp to meet at a “T” intersection where drivers could enter development directly or go to Jefferson Avenue.

Open Space

  • Provide better connections between the parks as well as the shoreline and to the community. This will bring activity to these open spaces.
  • Increase housing density surrounding existing public parks as well as retail and cultural uses.
  • Chesapeake Avenue should be improved to be more inviting for pedestrian use.
  • Combine additional flood protection with the design of trails around the perimeter of Salter’s Creek.

 

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Existing (Left) Recommended (Right) The Southeast Community Urban Waterfront Design Study also recommends that Ivy Avenue be a part of a broader neighborhood with clear connections to King-Lincoln Park, the waterfront, and to surrounding portions of the neighborhood. Source: Southeast Urban Waterfron Study (Popup full image)