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60-room boutique hotel with a market hall
(site 2), an 83-unit market rate apartment
project with retail (site 9), and a 271-space
public parking structure (site 8). Sites 10,
11 and 12 represent the $6 million in new
park investment in Downtown.
By continuing to nurture Downtown’s
transformation, the City can support the
Downtown’s role as a community gathering
space, attract new visitors and investment,
and grow property values and sales tax
revenues. As part of fostering a mixed-use
Downtown, however, the City must
consider how to successfully accommodate
increased densities and mixed-use
development in a historically suburban,
auto-oriented environment.
New mixed-use development should be
designed with adequate visibility, parking,
and access to make it competitive. In some
cases, it may be easier and more cost
effective to design horizontally integrated
mixed-use projects (with retail adjacent to
housing) rather than requiring residential
over commercial space. In addition, given
the increasingly competitive retail
environment, the City must be realistic
about the amount of retail that can be
supported in the Downtown and the types
of locations that are most likely to attract
tenants.