Focus Areas/Opportunity Sites
From The Master Plan - Old Brooklyn Community Development Corporation
Identifying strategies to be pursued is important in order to establish an overall starting point of action, but putting theory into practice through specific applications in key locations throughout the neighborhoods is a fundamental next step in achieving the goals of the Master Plan. Toward that end, a number of strategic sites were identified that warranted further evaluation. These areas were considered to be prime sites for detailed study because of their prominent locations within the community and potential for improvement and/or redevelopment opportunities. In some cases, an evaluation was conducted for multiple parcels as a “focus area”, while in other cases detailed studies were conducted on individual parcels, or “opportunity sites”. Evaluations and policy recommendations for some of the focus areas/opportunity sites were the subject of studies being conducted concurrently: areas in and adjacent to the Lower Big Creek Valley were studied as part of the 2008 Lower Big Creek Greenway Restoration and Redevelopment Plan, while four commercial nodes along Pearl Road were evaluated as part of the Pearl Road/W 25th Street Corridor Plan. Since a number of opportunity sites are concentrated in the Old Brooklyn Downtown area, and some of the recommendations apply to the downtown area as a whole, the Old Brooklyn Downtown is listed as a focus area.
- State/Pearl Triangle
- Fulton/ Memphis Shopping Area
- Old Brooklyn “Downtown” Focus Area
- Pearl, from Wildlife Way to State Road
- Broadview, from Pearl to Valley
- Pearl, Brooklyn Centre Downtown
- Former Memphis School Site
- Henninger Landfill Site
- Lower Big Creek Valley
- Harvard/Jennings Area
- Pearl/Oakpark Area
- Pearl /Brookpark Area
- Broadview/ Brookpark Area
- Brookpark, from Broadview to Ridge
This chapter describes each of the Focus Areas/Opportunity Sites and recommends actions within these areas that will make each more socially, physically and economically vibrant and welcoming neighborhood places. Detailed evaluations and maps of each area are included in Appendix C.
