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RE-IMAGINING THE CIVIC COMMONS

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How do we create 20- minute neighborhoods along the Livernois corridor?

Six Neighborhood Transformation Initiatives Single-Family Safety and Public Residential Services Stabilization Planning, Small Business Placemaking and and Retail Open Space Development Multifamily and Mixed-Use Mobility Development

Livernois/McNichols GREEN ACRES Neighborhood Planning PEMBROKE • Ongoing meetings and team SHERWOOD structure to support PALMER FOREST WOODS community development • Civic Commons projects provide a major focus area PALMER PARK within the planning district BAGLEY UNIVERSITY • Overlap with the Strategic DISTRICT DETROIT Neighborhood Initiative GOLF COURSE Microdistrict CIVIC COMMONS FOCUS AREA MARYGROVE U OF D COLLEGE MERCY CITY OF HIGHLAND MARTIN PARK PARK FITZGERALD PILGRIM VILLAGE

Demographics • Annual Median Household Income • Some of strongest neighborhoods in Detroit in close proximity PALMER PARK • Project Area DETROIT GOLF – 95% African COURSE American – 24% Youth – 12% Seniors – 28% Don’t have CITY OF access to a vehicle HIGHLAND PARK – 17% Unemployment

1 The Neighborhood Scale

Project Goals : • Transform every public owned property • Improve neighborhood perception • Pilot a replicable revitalization strategy to be applied across Detroit Ownership : • 1,133 Total Parcels • 419 Total Public owned parcels – 117 Structures – 302 Vacant lots

Neighborhood Framework Plan Crops Central Park Orchards Greenway Meadows

http://www.fitzgerald-detroit.com

Housing Developer RFP : • Private developer • Rehabilitate vacant homes • Demolish unsalvageable structures • Implement and maintain low- maintenance lot treatments

RFP to rehab all vacant homes, demolish unsalvageable homes, and maintain 1:1 ratio of vacant lots to homes • Consistent design standards for lots • City partnering with developer to obtain resources for demos and to create affordable units • Creating local jobs factor in RFP

RFP seeking entities activate vacant land in neighborhood • Larger aggregations of vacant land • Financially sustainable business models (tree farms, orchards, hoop houses, intensive flower and vegetable production) • Local jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities important factor in the RFP

2 The Corridor Scale

Streetscape Improvements

Retail + Small Business Development

Strategic Neighborhood Initiative

2 Livernois Lot Block Party LLC Building Mercantile Building

Livernois Lot

Block Party LLC

Block Party LLC

Mercantile Building

3 The Building Scale

Funding Sources Local Matching • City of Detroit: $1.4M [Federal Gov] • Detroit Collaborative Design Center: $25,000 [Foundation] • Detroit Economic Growth Corp: $450,000 [Federal Gov] • The Greening of Detroit: $1.8M [Federal Gov, Foundation, Corporate] • Invest Detroit: $1.2M [Foundation] • Live6 Alliance: $350,000 [Foundation] Additional Resources • Strategic Neighborhood Fund $6M [Foundation, Federal and State Gov] • Fitzgerald RFP $TBD [Developer Equity, Loans]

Opportunities+Challenges

Insights