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.
