DEPARTMENT: Planning and Community Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: John Dugan
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City Wide
SUBJECT:
Contract award for REnewSA Study
SUMMARY:
Ordinance authorizing consulting services with Fregonese Associates, Inc to conduct a REnewSA Commercial Corridor Redevelopment Study in an amount not to exceed $225,000.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
REnewSA is a new collaborative initiative for coordinating and targeting community development resources to return vacant, neglected, and underutilized properties to productive use. REnewSA is a partnership between the Department of Planning and Community Development, Office of Historic Preservation, Center City Development Office, Development Services Department as well as other City departments and outside partner agencies. REnewSA utilizes a market driven model to target the allocation of local and federal resources to smaller geographies within the Inner City Reinvestment/ Infill Policy (ICRIP) area where these resources will stimulate private investment. REnewSA encompasses the work of the Underutilized Properties Initiative and builds on the Infill Pilot Program.
The proposed Citywide study will define redevelopment sites in current REnewSA target areas and define future REnewSA redevelopment area locations and priorities. The focus of the study is on distressed commercial corridors as well the adjacent residential neighborhoods that form their trade areas. The study parameters were developed based on recommendations made by the Cloudburst Group through a technical assistance grant from HUD. The proposed study will use market data to identify distressed areas within the City that are primed for revitalization. The contract also includes a scenario planning tool that will provide redevelopment strategies for individual vacant, neglected, and underutilized properties in these areas. With this information, the City will be able to more effectively leverage loc...
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