Neighborhoods & Districts | Urban Collage

Campbell Terrace and Delona Gardens Hope VI Master Plans

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project: CAMPBELL TERRACE AND DELONA GARDENS HOPE VI MASTER PLANS
date: 2006
location: FAYETTEVILLE, NC
client: TCG INTERNATIONAL, LLC
contact: CHARLES J. BILLAND, AICP

Urban Collage contracted by TCG International, LLC, to work along side the Fayetteville Metropolitan Housing Authority, developed a 2006 HOPE VI plan for the communities of Campbell Terrace and Delona Gardens in Fayetteville, North Carolina. The project included a variety of development considerations including adaptive re-use, community gardens and orchards, senior housing, townhomes, single family homes, existing institution / educational structures and several additional areas under city ownership in the Old Wilmington Road neighborhood.

Nicholtown Master Plan

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project: NICHOLTOWN MASTER PLAN
date: 2003
location: GREENVILLE, SC
client: CITY OF GREENVILLE & THE GREENVILLE HOUSING AUTHORITY
contact: GINNY STROUD

The City of Greenville, SC in collaboration with the Greenville Housing Authority, focused on a long-range master plan for the revitalization of the Nicholtown neighborhood and the Jesse Jackson Townhomes. The team of Urban Collage, Inc., URS Corp., Robert Charles Lesser & Co. LLC. and J. Peters & Associates were selected to work with the City, GHA, and community stakeholders to develop a strategic action plan which identified opportunities, projects and partnership consistent with the community’s vision. This redevelopment project will be “the largest revitalization project in city history” according to the Greenville News.

Building on the consensual vision, the Urban Collage Team developed a plan for Jesse Jackson Townhomes that would ultimately serve as a catalyst for redevelopment in the Nicholtown community. In addition, the plan reaches into the Nicholtown neighborhood to propose preservation and restoration of existing single-family homes, infill single-family and multi-family residential and infrastructure improvements, including a greenway trail connecting to the Reedy River, and streetscapes.

Implementation Highlights:

GHA awarded a $20 million 2004 HOPE VI Grant for Jesse Jackson Townhomes
Successful tax credit application for senior housing development
Greenville City Council committed $4 million in property and infrastructure improvements
Development of Comprehensive Design Guidelines

Belmont Area Revitalization Plan

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project: BELMONT AREA REVITALIZATION PLAN
date: 2002
location: CHARLOTTE, NC
client: CHARLOTTE/MECKLENBURG PLANNING DEPARTMENT
contact: DEBRA CAMPBELL, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING

The Belmont Area Revitalization Plan is a planning effort sponsored and funded by the City of Charlotte and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. This project focused on revitalizing one of Charlotte’s oldest inner city neighborhoods into a safe and sustainable community. The project study area encompasses 522 acres equivalent to 1,647 parcels.

Through a four-phase planning process, the planning team, led by Urban Collage, Inc. in collaboration with Asset Property Disposition, Inc., GNA Design & Assoc., and Robert Charles Lesser & Company developed a strategic action plan for implementation which identifies opportunities, projects and partnerships consistent with the community’s vision, focusing on community improvement. In particular, this plan provided parcel-by-parcel recommendations for land use, implementation and capital improvements.

The primary redevelopment opportunities in the Belmont area include:

150 Single Family homes on infill lots;
Growing the Central Avenue commercial district;
Adaptive reuse of the Hawthorne Mill for residential units and office studios;
Redevelopment of Piedmont Courts as a mixed-income community;
Create community and civic pride through public improvements to the Hawthorne Middle School and Little Sugar Creek Greenway.

East Rome Revitalization Plan

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project: EAST ROME REVITALIZATION PLAN
date: 2008 – 2009
location: ROME, GA
client: NORTHWEST GEORGIA HOUSING AUTHORITY
contact: SANDRA D. HUDSON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

The Northwest Georgia Housing Authority in Rome has retained Urban Collage to lead a multi-disciplinary team to prepare a master plan for the revitalization of the East Rome neighborhood centering on the redevelopment of the obsolete Altoview Terrace public housing complex. The team deliberately expanded the original study area to trace the boundaries of the entire East Rome neighborhood, with the goal of creating a community-based Official Redevelopment Plan that would be the policy foundation for future Housing Authority and private development as well as public improvements.

The cornerstone of the redevelopment plan is the 12th Street Corridor Focus Area which transforms several vacant or blighted sites including Altoview Terrace into new mixed-income communities that are the basis of a federal HOPE VI revitalization grant application. Combined with potential mixed-use projects along Maple Avenue – the neighborhood’s onetime main street – and infill housing in the adjacent historic areas, the HOPE VI revitalization program provides the final element in the ongoing resurgence of Rome’s south side.

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