Question: How does your plan connect to surrounding neighborhoods? Specifically, how does your design promote healthy, active, and safe connectivity?<\/p>\n
Pinellas County Housing Authority<\/p>\n
We selected our site strategically. It’s about to be connected to the Pinellas Trail. It’s got access to downtown, got access to transportation.<\/p>\n
It’s built with our partner, Evara Healthcare, who’s going to have a health clinic on site.<\/p>\n
So we took health and connectivity and put it at the top of our list.<\/p>\n
Downtown St. Pete of the future is not going to be the downtown we see today. As it grows, our project is going to be connected to the entire neighborhood.<\/p>\n
And let’s not discount, I think it was 40 years ago, people were asked to leave or told to leave. And our project is specifically designed to welcome them home.<\/p>\n
Foundation Vision Partners<\/p>\n
You’re not seeing pretty pictures with massive buildings or massive public parks because you haven’t been part of the process to date within our plan.<\/p>\n
When we talk about horizontal infrastructure, it’s kind of a stale word, but it basically means what is the public realm experience that we all want?<\/p>\n
We have a very robust idea about how to do community engagement first so that we’re thinking about cohesion between the existing communities today and what will come next on this site.<\/p>\n
We expect every single group up here, you all out in the community, to be part of that future, developing together.<\/p>\n
Because connection and cohesion is one of the most important things that we can do to create vibrant, mixed-use experiences that are flexible enough over time.<\/p>\n
Because remember, this is a 20, 30, 40, 50-year project that we’re talking about.<\/p>\n
As your needs shift, doing the horizontal infrastructure first allows us flexibility to create the connections we know we need today and the ones we don\u2019t yet know we\u2019ll need in the future.<\/p>\n
ARK Ellison Horus<\/p>\n
Leading up to our proposal, we spent probably eight months talking about how to make sure that this community touches all of its neighbors.<\/p>\n
So we felt it was very important to connect to the south, north, east, and west.<\/p>\n
To the south, we connect to Campbell Park with the Unity Bridge. We’re doing a Main Street program down 16th and MLK, pulling Campbell Park into the Gas Plant District.<\/p>\n
To the north, we are connecting into the Rails and Trails program, CSX into the EDGE District and Grand Central.<\/p>\n
To the west, we’re connecting to the Warehouse Arts District and inviting them in.<\/p>\n
And to the east, we’re connecting to the Innovation District, which ARK is already part of.<\/p>\n
So we were very intentional in making sure the Gas Plant District connects to the city. There is no backdoor.<\/p>\n
The Burg Bid<\/p>\n
What you saw presented here was what we proposed in October. But since then, we have been going to the community asking for input, advice, criticism, and it has transformed significantly.<\/p>\n
In the 30 days that we were reviewing this, we really took into account our history of knowing this city.<\/p>\n
What we started with was: what is at the heart of the project? Let\u2019s get the public space right. Let\u2019s get the The Woodson African American Museum of Florida in the center of the site.<\/p>\n
Some plans have shown the Woodson outside the site. We want it at the heart.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re going to have the Legacy Link connecting to Methodist Town, connecting underneath the interstate to the Deuces, to Manhattan Casino, and down 16th Street.<\/p>\n
Everything you see in our plan is funded. We want to be careful not to show things that require outside funding that isn\u2019t secured.<\/p>\n
We are intentional about reconnecting historic bridges and connections.<\/p>\n
We will continue to create those connections throughout the project and beyond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Question: How does your plan connect to surrounding neighborhoods? Specifically, how does your design promote healthy, active, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258289,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-258288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}