hyde park summary

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PRODUCED BY:

ELIZABETH STEWARTDEBORAH HELTBRYAN LOBEL

GEORGIA SHERIDANSUSAN WONG

SIBIN FAN

FOR:

THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNA AT LOS ANGELESURBAN PLANNING 273 :: SITE PLANNING

TAUGHT BY:

PROFESSOR VINIT MUKHIJA

DEVELOPED IN CONSULTATION WITH:

HYDE PARK ORGANIZATION FOR EMPOWERMENT (H.O.P.E.)PARK MESA HEIGHTS COMMUNITY COUNCIL

VIEW PARK COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONWEST ANGELES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION

CITY OF LOS ANGELES COMMUNITY PLANNING BUREAUHYDE PARK MERCHANTS ASSOCIATION

HYDE PARK COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO C.R.A.-L.A.EMERGING MARKETS

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY . . . . . . . . 4

SITE ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . 6

USER ANALYSIS . . . . . . . . . 8

PLAN FRAMEWORK . . . . . . . . 11

URBAN DESIGN CONCEPT . . . . . . . 14

IMPLEMENTATION . . . . . . . . 17

PHASING . . . . . . . . . . 18

KEY CASE STUDIES . . . . . . . . 23


Executive SummaryPurpose

The intention of this urban design proposal is to provide good jobs, enhance the environment, and generate vibrant community activity in Hyde Park.

Guiding Principles

Green Jobs, Green Spaces, Great Streets

Hyde Park

Hyde Park is a vibrant community located in the heart of South Los Angeles. The neighborhood, a major site of the 1992 civil unrest in Los Angeles, has been chronically underserved by public entities and has suffered from insubstantial local economic investment and job creation activities.

Centrally-located within Hyde Park is a plot of industrial land surrounded by single-family residences. This site, the focuse of this proposal, is bounded by 5th to the east and Van Ness to the west, and Hyde Park to the north and Southwest Drive to the south, and is cut diagonally by rarely used BNSF train tracks. Development in the area is challenged by the close proximity of residential and industrial uses and lack of safety, among other critical issues.

We propose a plan to transform the site’s under-utilized industrial parcels by creating a green industrial park. We envision a space that enhances the environment, provides quality, local employment and generates opportunities for community activity.

The Proposal

The residents of Hyde Park deserve access to well-paying jobs, and safe, green, open space. The park will include a light manufacturing facility, office space, demonstration facilities and a building devoted to job training and non-profit activities related to green industries. Surrounding these facilities will be a large green space offering a variety of potential outdoor activities for nearby residents.

Green standards will be applied to the project on every level. The site will offer the neighborhood a publicly recognizable identity as a hub of green activity in Los Angeles. It could feasibly serve as a model facility to illustrate the City’s goals to “green” LA, and as a vital source of well-paying jobs with low barriers to entry for local residents.

In conjunction with the green industrial park, we envision a surrounding ring of commercial activities that will provide a buffer between the industrial and residential uses in the site and also bring much needed amenities to park employees and local residents. These amenities could include a small local market that carries fresh produce, a local media outlet, and a bistro-style restaurant.


Major Elements

In approaching this site, designers had to rethink how the industrial and residential uses in this space could constructively and safely coexist, and what design interventions could facilitate this improvement.

Green Jobs:

• The park will capitalize on existing industrial space, creating high-wage jobs for workers in clean, green industries.

• Local retail outlets surrounding the park would serve the needs of the incoming businesses and local residents.

Green Spaces:

• Designers plan to re-open sightlines by reconnecting 2nd street and removing fencing around the perimeter of site. This will contribute to accessibility and safety

• By creating more green, open space, much needed recreational opportunities will be generated for the area’s large populations of young and old people.

• Designers hope to create green demonstration areas for education and training as it relates to sustainability, and secondary projects like a community garden and green roofs to further promote the mission of the park and enhance community benefits.

Great Streets:

• Traffic calming measures like speedbumps and street striping, and measures to improve circulation of trucks and general traffic

• Walkable amenities will enhance the pedestrian experience and provide much-needed services to employees and local residents

• Revitalization and development of commercial buildings will act as a viable, neighborhood-serving buffer between the industrial and residential areas

• Improvements in streetscaping, including benches, lighting, street trees, and awnings


SITE ANALYSIS The site presents a range of challenges and opportunities. Major challenges include:

• The close proximity of residential and industrial uses

• Safety issues, especially gang activity• Fortress-like fencing closes off site lines • Industrial parcels are under-utilized • Large tracts of valuable land are occupied by surface parking• Lack of pedestrian amenities, especially access to

healthy food

Major opportunities include:• There are a large number of local homeowners

who are invested in the neighborhood • There are a limited number of property owners of

industrial plots: 13 industrial parcels are pre-assembled

• Attractive, viable, historic building stock which is viable for rehabilitation

• The area is well-served by public transit, and in close proximity to bus stops

• There is significant community support for change, especially change that fuels the community’s expressed desires for better local jobs and safe, green, recreational spaces for young and old people.


USER ANALYSISThe community of Hyde Park is struggling to overcome issues of poverty and low edu-cational attainment. Basic demographic analyses reinforce the need for green space and expanded job opportunities for young people.

According to the 2000 Census Data procured from the Center for Neighborhood Knowl-edge, educational attainment in Hyde Park peaks just after high school. Of the total adult population in Hyde Park, 85 percent do not have a college degree.

The median household income in Hyde Park as of the 2000 Census was $31,547. Over half of the households in Hyde Park make $35,000 or less, and over 46 percent of Hyde Park households make less than $25,000 per year.The Hyde Park area has a higher proportion of young

and elderly residents than the City-wide average, and an only slightly higher rate of male unemployment than the City-wide average.

Hyde Park also has a significant set of assets upon which it can build. The community has a large population of homeowners (42%), a large under-utilized labor pool, and surprisingly significant purchasing power. In ad-dition, the neighborhood is home to several active and well-informed community groups working to imple-ment positive changes in the neighborhood.


HYDE PARK PROJECT AREA


PLAN FRAMEWORKMission:

We envision a space that enhances the environment, provides local employment, and generates opportunities for community activity. The right of way we selected is centrally located in Hyde Park. There is a mix of land uses within close proximity to one another, but which don’t coexist well together. Our site proposal focused on ways we could keep the mix of uses and improve their relationship to one another thereby enhancing the neighborhood. In order to integrate the mix of uses –industrial, commercial, and residential, we propose maintaining the industrial space through the creation of a green industrial park in order to generate jobs for the community. With the movement toward clean technologies and green manufacturing, we envision industry that can generate jobs for the community within this up and coming sector, while thriving next to green park space and residential neighborhoods. The parcels surrounding the right of way are primarilyzoned for commercial use and can provide a buffer between the industry and residential land uses as well as provide neighborhood amenities. In summary, we envision a site where industrial, commercial, green open space, and residential land uses coexist well together. By achieving abalanced, functional mix of uses, this site can be a center of vibrant activity and create a distinct identity for the Hyde Park community.

Elements:

Green Industrial Park: The park will provide a competitive edge for the community, connect well with the City’s strong commitment to going "green", and blend well with public open space and residential

Green Job Training Center: The job-training center will provide classes, community demonstrations of green technologies, and be used as a public gathering facility

Creation of Green Space: Open, green space will create a recreational, gathering place for the surrounding neighborhood and open up the site lines which will improvesafety

Extend 2nd Street: Reconnecting the grid will provide open site lines and make the site more accessible from both neighborhoods

Remove the fencing and gates: Opening up the space will enhance the safety and increase ‘eyes on the street’

Neighborhood Retail: Local retail that serves the neighborhood with basic amenities such as a market, video/bookstore, café, and restaurant will increase foot-traffic and benefit the industrial businesses


Principles:

We have summarized our design ideas into three main principles – Green Jobs, Green Space, and Great Streets.

Green Jobs prioritizes keeping the industrial land-use of the site while making its proximity to residential uses more palatable. In order to benefit the community, we hope to create a non-toxic, green manufacturing space that:

-capitalizes on existing industrial space with high-wage jobs and training for the community,

-and creates economic development opportunities in growing green manufacturing sector.

Green Space provides open, recreational space for the community, an amenity that is sorely lacking in Hyde Park. This principle represents the community-oriented aspects of the site design which seek to:

-reconnect neighborhoods,

-provide open space with activities for youth and elderly,

-showcase sustainability and educate the public throughdemonstration spaces.

Great Streets reveals the vibrancy that can be created through streetscape improvements. Our site design looks to the streets to:

-create a vibrant, mixed-use environment,

-create a commercial/retail buffer that benefits the neighborhood and green industry,

-and promote safety through streetscape design and activity.


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GREEN SPACES :: Reconnect neighborhoods provide open space with activities for youth and elderly showcase sustainability and educate with public demonstration spaces

GREEN JOBS ::capitalize on existing industrial space with high wage jobs and training for community create economic development opportunities in growing green sector

GREAT STREETS :: Creation of a vibrant mixed use environment commercial retail buffer that benefits the neigborhood and industry promote safety throught streetscape design and activity

HYDEPARKdeb helt. bryan lobel. georgia sheridan. elizabeth stewart. sibin fan. susan wong.

PHASING

HYDE PARK Final Site Proposal


Land Use

Because industrial land is valuable in Los Angeles, we decided not to remove industrial land, but rather to encourage green and “clean” industrial uses to keep and create jobs in the area. Thus, we only changed some of the industrial space into open space – with the idea that the open space will compliment the green industry with innovative and cutting edge green landscaping.

Additionally, we propose changing the land use on the south side of Southwest Boulelvard and north side of Hyde Park Boulevard to serve as a commercial buffer between the industrial and residential land uses.

Urban Design Concept

Basic Elements

- Remove the fences, walls, razor wire, and fortress architecture that barricade the industrial land – creating a visual and physical barrier between the north and south neighborhoods.

- Open and green the industrial strip, creating a park with walking trails, play areas, barbeque and picnic tables, public art and chess tables, community garden, and spaces that serve other recreational needs and allow for a community gathering space.

- Knock down one industrial building and reconnect 2nd Avenue, allowing other alleys and trails to create greater access and connection between long-divided neighborhoods.

- Streetscaping and façade improvements throughout thearea, improving upon the attractive, albeit rundown, industrial building stock that exists.

- Softening the edge between the industrial buildings and the open space through the use of xersicaping (resource efficient and native landscaping), green walls, and other design interventions to create an attractive blending of green industry and green open space for an interactive industrial park experience that serves local community needs, while showcasing green technology that is developing in the industrial buildings.


1. Green Jobs + Green Industry

Our design interventions focus on softening the harsh edge between the industry and the park, and the industry and the residential neighborhood. The before and after photos show façade improvements, renovation of existing buildings, and the removal and greening of physical barriers such as walls and gates with razor wire.

2. Green Spaces

Our master plan shows designated areas of recreational activity for the green industrial park. The before and after photographs show possible entrances to the park at the intersection of 2nd Avenue and Hyde Park. The photographs show possible design ideas for park benches, public art, chess tables, etc.

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Our circulation map shows the new access point of 2nd Avenue, as well as a truck turnaround area for loading, which would come off of Van Ness and filter onto Southwest Boulevard to limit the impact of large trucks on the residential areas. The maps also show the placement of crosswalks, which are much needed to slow traffic and create a pedestrian friendly street network.

Our photos and images show streetscaping ideas to include crosswalks, pedestrian lighting, street furniture, and commercial amenities to add eyes on the street and vibrancy to the area, while again serving as a buffer between industry and residential.

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Implementation Benefits of the Project

The project goals for the Hyde Park Green Industrial Park are:

• Job Creation

• Increased Tax Revenue

• New Business Opportunities in Untapped Markets

• Access to land with well-served infrastructure and availability for redevelopment

• Financial return on under-utilized or used property

• Community and environmental stewardship

• Prevention or elimination of blight

Strategy

Public/Private Partnership

We envision the implementation of our proposal as a public/private partnership. The scope of work for our proposal requires political support, community stakeholder involvement, and a mutually benefiting partnership between public and private entities. There are numerous benefits to establishing a public/privatepartnership, including:

• Cost savings

• Reachable benchmarks

• Additional private resources and personnel for constrained public resources;

• Environmental or aesthetic quality

Potential Project Partners

For a project of this size with so many elements involve, there are a number of potential project partners that can participate in this partnership. These partners include the Community Redevelopment Agency, the City of Los Angeles, the County of Los Angeles, Community Stakeholders, Private Developers, and a Community Development Corporation such as West Angeles CDC.

These project partners will be involved at various stages of the implementation process and will contribute different resources and time towards the project all of whichare important components to the project’s completion and success.


PhasingPhase 1 Short Term Projects

In order to make some immediate impacts for local residents, we identified some short term projects that make a visual impact in the area but do not require largeamount of funding to implement.

1. Bus Stop Improvements – The project area is served by at least three MTA lines that currently have no amenities at the existing stops.

Types of Improvement: Bus Shelters, Benches, Trash Cans, Pedestrian Lighting, Signage

2. Community Garden - Creating a community garden at the site would begin to bring community members to the site on a regular basis. There are local organizations that assist communities with the temporary land lease, the implementation, and the training to maintain community gardens, namely the Los Angeles Community Garden Council and the UC Cooperative Extension’s Common Ground Garden Program.

3. Streetscape Improvements – Types of Improvements: Coordinated street trees, furniture, signage, sidewalk and street repaving.

4. Traffic Calming Measures – The amount of traffic that cuts through Southwest and Hyde Park Boulevard at high speeds, does not contribute to a pedestrian friendly environment. Traffic calming measures in this area would create a safer environment for local residents. Types of Improvements: Stop Signs, speed humps, landscaped medians, pedestrian crossing signals.

5. Targeted Neighborhood Initiative: Convince Council Office or Mayors Office to establish a Targeted Neighborhood Initiative in the Hyde Park area. This initiative gives residents in disadvantaged neighborhoods the resources to implement community improvement programs under the condition that they take responsibility for maintaining and sustaining the programs themselves. The program includes a comprehensive and targeted effort from the City, LAPD, Building and Safety, Bureau of Sanitation for Bulky Item Clean Up and Graffiti Removal. Although, this initiative reaches beyond our project area, the implications of would have a major impact on the project, as these improvements could help bring in additional investment dollars.

The completion of these projects makes a visual impact in the area and also is consistent with the larger scope of the proposed project. Funding Sources – MTA Call for Projects, Neighborhood Matching Grant from the Board of Public Works, Department of Transportation, Los Angeles Community Garden Council, CDBG Funds.

MTA Call for Projects – Funding Uses

1. Transportation Enhancement Activities (TEA) that improves the interface between transportation systems and their users and/or improves environmental/community linkages.


2. Pedestrian improvements that promote walking as a viable form of utilitarian travel, pedestrian safety enhancements, and an integral link within the overall transportation system.

3. Signal synchronization and bus speed improvements on arterial streets, including other low cost measures to improve traffic flow on regionally significant major arterials.

Neighborhood Matching Grants - Funding Uses

The Community Beautification Grant, a competitive annual matching grant of up to $10,000 is awarded to community groups to fund neighborhood beautification projects. The grant program is administered by the City of Los Angeles, Board of Public Works, and Office of Community Beautification.

Phase 2 Land Acquisition and Assembly

Our project proposal rests on land acquisition and land assembly. The acquisition of such a large parcel of land would require the efforts of both public and private entities to purchase, land swap and even use eminent domain for certain under-utilized parcels in order to assemble the land. Establishing a LAND TRUST in order to compile this large tract of land would allow both private and public partners to work towards the end result. The land bank would limit public knowledge of the land acquisition process and stop the increase of land prices.

Phase 3 Brownfields Site Clean Up

Before construction on the site can occur, the site needs toxic remediation. The entire site, a railroad yard, would require assessment and clean up.

Funding for Phase 2 and 3 - Brownfields Economic Development Initiative, Section 108 Funds, Community Development Block Grants

Eligible Activities for CDBG/Section 108/BEDI Funding

-Economic Development

-Land Acquisition

-Site Preparation and Assessment

-Demolition and Clearance of Property Remediation

-Acquisition and Construction of Public Facilities

-Rehabilitation of Public Real Property

CDBG Funding must meet one of the program’s following national objectives

1. Benefit low and moderate income persons

2. Prevent or eliminate slums or blight

3. Address conditions that present a serious and immediate threat to the health and safety of the community.

Section 108 Loan Guarantee Program

Supports economic development projects, local governments can use Section 108 Loan Guarantees.


1. Provides communities with a source of financing for economic development, public facilities and large scale physical development projects and other brownfields redevelopment activities.

2. Must meet the basic requirements of the CDBG program.

3. Can apply at any time on a noncompetitive basis for Section 108 loan guarantees. The Section 108 Program requires local governments to pledge annual CDBG funds along with additional security as collateral for the loan guarantee.

4. Eligible applicants may apply for up to five times their CDBG entitlement amount, minus any outstanding Section 108 commitments and or principal balances on section 108 loans.

Brownfields Economic Development Initiative

The BEDI provides communities with funds for the clean up and economic redevelopment of brownfields. BEDI funds are used to support and enhance the financial viability of projects assisted with Section 108 loan guarantee funds by helping ensure that the project is financially successful and able to repay the related 108 loan guarantee. BEDI grant funds may be used for any eligible activity under the Section 108 program including property acquisition, economic development, public facilities and program related activities.

Phase 4 Acquire Additional Parcels for Commercial Development

If possible, the next phase would focus on acquiring other key parcels surrounding the industrial project area/green space. These properties would serve as neighborhood and industrial amenities such as coffee shops, restaurants, and small stores. They also serve as the buffer between the industrial use and neighborhoodhomes in the community. In addition, these commercial/retail uses bring additional foot traffic to the area.

Phase 5 Infrastructure Improvements

The conversion of this space will require significant infrastructure improvements. Types of Improvements: Preparation of site, underground utilities, resurfacing streets curbs, and creating driveways

Funding Phase 4 and 5 – EDA Funds and Enterprise/Empowerment Zone

Economic Development Administration offers funding from the Economic Adjustment Assistance Program and Public Works and Economic Development Program whose funds are flexible so long as the outcome of the project provides communities with economic development opportunities.

Economic Development Administration - Economic Adjustment Assistance Program

The Economic Adjustment Assistance Program provides a wide range of technical, planning, and infrastructure assistance in regions experiencing adverse economic


changes that may occur suddenly or over time. This program is designed to respond flexibly to pressing economic recovery issues and is well-suited to help address challenges faced by U.S. regions and communities.

Economic Development Administration - Public Works and Economic Development Program

Public Works and Economic Development investments help support the construction or rehabilitation of essential public infrastructure and facilities necessary to generate or retain private sector jobs and investments, attract private sector capital, and promote regional competitiveness, including investments that expand and upgrade infrastructure to attract new industry, support technology-led development, redevelop brownfield sites and provide eco-industrial development.

Renewal Communities, Empowerment Zones (EZ) and Enterprise Communities (EC)

Enterprise and Empowerment Zones provide local economic incentives for both clean up and redevelopment for sustainable community economic development initiative. The entire project area is located in an empowerment zone. The developer could potentially receive $10 million in economic incentives.

In Empowerment Zones and Enterprise Communities residents are working together to create economic opportunities for their neighborhoods and to build public/private partnerships for sustainable community development.

Many EZs and ECs identified brownfields redevelopment as a critical element of their local revitalization strategy.

EZs and ECs offer significant economic incentives that may be used for brownfield cleanup and redevelopment.

1. Federal grant funds are available for brownfields redevelopment activities.

2. Brownfields located in EZs and ECs are eligible for the Brownfields Tax Incentive. The tax incentive reduces the cost of cleaning up of contaminated, abandoned sites, in economically distressed areas by permitting clean up costs to be immediately deducted for tax purposes, rather than require the expense to be capitalized.

3. Businesses locating EZs and ECs can also take advantage of tax exempt bond financing, Section 179 Expensing, the Work Opportunity Tax Credit and the Welfare to Work Tax Credit.

Phase 6 Coordinated Site Design and Community Design Overlay and Streetscape Improvement Plan

The design of the project, the surrounding streetscape improvements, and the commercial development should have a consistent look and feel that are complimentary to the surrounding neighborhood as well as to each other. All design should be coordinated in order to reflect the uniqueness of the industry at this location as well as the identity of the community.

The Design Guidelines need to be created with Stakeholders, Developers, and Council Office participation in order to have standards that are cost effective and aesthetically attractive.


Phase 7 Construction and Landscaping

The construction of the open space and the building stock can have different timelines. There are several sources of funding available for parks in urban areas.

Funding: Prop 84, Prop K, prop O, Prop 40, Prop 12.

State Proposition 84 –The Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006

The $5.4 billion bond measure provides critically needed funds to ensure the availability of safe drinking water, improve local water supply reliability, strengthen flood protection, and preserve California’s natural landscapes, including parks, lakes, rivers, beaches, bays, ocean andcoastline. Sustainable Communities and Climate Change Reduction

• Local and regional parks.

• Urban water and energy conservation projects.

• Incentives for conservation in local planning.

Parks and Natural Education Facilities

• State park system—acquisition, development, and restoration.

• Nature education and research facilities.

Air QualityPrevious bonds have included funds to improve air quality, namely for diesel emission reduction incentive programs. Proposition 84 does not include any funds specifically for air quality programs. However, funds available to promote conservation in local planning and for urban greening projects could have air quality benefits. In addition, Proposition 1B (the Highway Safety, Traffic Reduction, Air Quality, and Port Security Bond Act of 2006) includes $1.2 billion for air quality improvements.

Prop K – LA for Kids

The Recreational and Cultural Facilities Program (RCFP) is responsible for the acquisition, development, improvements, restoration, and maintenance of City parks, open spaces, recreation, and community facilities and other youth related projects. A majority of the funding is through Proposition K, an annual real property tax assessment on City residents over a 30-year period.

The Program’s primary purpose is to combat the inadequacies and decay of the City’s youth infrastructure, which has resulted in serious unmet needs for park, recreation, childcare, and community facilities. As a result, this program performs such services as feasibility studies, site and building design, construction documents (plans and specifications), construction/project estimating, bid and award services, and construction and project management for both new and existing facilities. Services are performed using City personnel, or through consultants managed by City staff. In summary, the Recreational and Cultural Facilities Program participates in the decision-making process


for both City owned, and non-City owned recreational facilities. Funding for Specified Projects is designated in the original Proposition K ballot measure, as approved by the voters of the City of Los Angeles, as well as through a biennial open and competitive Call for Projects process.

Phase 8 Maintenance and Operation

The final phase of implementation is maintenance and operations. The developer must seek a tenant within the green industry to lease the space. In determining the developer and leasing businesses, a Community Benefits Agreement would be required for the both the developer and leasing businesses to provide local jobs, prevailing wages and maintenance agreements.

Key Case Studies The following case studies provide some insight to the proposed project. These two examples are located in urban areas and integrate a mix of light industrial and other uses. Also, both are examples of clean industrial manufacturing.

Phillips Eco-Enterprise Center: (RELEVANT EXAMPLE FOR LAND USE)

• 2801 21st Avenue South, $6 million construction costs

• 64,000 sq. ft., Generated 140 jobs

• Constructed on an inner-city Brownfields site

• Office and light manufacturing

o Tenants include:

Energy Conservatory: firm that manufactures and sells diagnostic tools to measure building performance issues

Techfluent: IT system and network integration company

Interior Tropicals, Inc.: Interier landscaping company

And 7 non-profits including fundraising consultants, technical assistance to supportive housing groups, promoters of sustainable development for Midwest

• PEEC named one of Top Ten Green Buildings of 2000 by American Institute of Architects, also a pilot site for U.S. Green Building Council LEED rating system, awarded cutting edge project of the year by City Business Magazine

Civano Industrial Eco-Park (Economic revitalization, CORE CONCEPT GREEN BUSINESS COLLABORATION) still in development…

• CORE CONCEPT: Civano seeks to bring together businesses with certain core capabilities to share resources

o Ie. makers of electric vehicles, circuit boards, steel fabricatorsdesign firms.


o Point is that they SHARE RESOURCES like transportation and water treatment

• Project received $600,000 loan from State of AZ Department of Commerce


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IMPLEMENTATION

Public + Private Partnership, Land Assembly, Land Swap, Site Acquisition, Community Design Overlay, Targeted Neighborhood Initiative

strategies + alternatives

identify for sale properties

purchaseunderutilizedparcels

assemble parcels + acquire land

rezone + establish commercial design overlay

funding sourcesCommunity Development Block Grants, Enter-prise + Empowerment Zone, Section 108 Funds, Brownfields Economic Development Initiative, Economic Development Administration Funds

Oakland Green Jobs Corps + GRID Alternatives, The Green Institute Phillips Eco Center in Minneapolis, Franklin Industrial Eco-Park in Youngs-ville, NC, Civano Industrial Eco-Park in Tucson, AZ

projects to learn from

partners + agenciesCommunity Redevelopment Agency, Community Development Corporation, City of Los Angeles, Private Developer, LANI, HOPE, Neighborhood Councils

• Local University and Community College have campuses nearby, both have sustainable technologies programs and both have expressed interest in SATELLITE CAMPUS.

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