DOWNTOWN NORTH REDEVELOPMENT

Streetscape Steering Committee Fifth & Broadway Task Force Broadway, Central, Emory Place Small Area Plan I-275/Central Corridor Study Downtown North I-275 Corridor Redevelopment & Urban Renewal Plan NOVEMBER 5, 2009 MEETING 11/05/09 Presentation [PDF] 11/05/09 Meeting Notes View News Release SEPTEMBER 24, 2009 MEETING 09/24/09 Presentation [PDF] 09/24/09 Meeting Comments [PDF] SEPTEMBER 30, 2008 MEETING 09/30/08 Re-Striping Plan [PDF] 09/30/08 Meeting Presentation [PDF] View News Release JULY 8, 2008 MEETING 07/08/08 Meeting Agenda [PDF] 07/08/08 Meeting Presentation [PDF] 07/08/08 Press Release [PDF] 07/08/08 Meeting Notes View Comments About Downtown North Redevelopment Bob Whetsel Director of Redevelopment bwhetsel@cityofknoxville.org Room 656, City County Building 865-215-2543 Fax: 865-215-3035 The Mayor & City Council have identified the opportunity to create a “Downtown North” commercial and residential district. The goal is to create an integrated mixed use area with visual, pedestrian, vehicular and land use connections working together to capitalize on the revitalization of Downtown Knoxville and her historic near north neighborhoods. This vision evolved as an outcome of the Fifth & Broadway Task Force in late 2006 and was further developed in the Broadway, Central, Emory Place Small Area Plan and the I-275/Central Corridor Study published by MPC in 2007. In the same year KCDC working from the ideas presented in these plans adopted the Downtown North I-275 Corridor Redevelopment and Urban Renewal Plan and created a redevelopment area by the same name. All of these plans were endorsed by the Mayor and adopted by City Council. Downtown North can generally be described as the area formed by Depot Avenue to the south, I-275 to the west, Woodland Ave to the north and Hall of Fame Dr to the east. It includes the intersection and corridors of N. Broadway & N. Central from Depot to Woodland. Among its many assets are Emory Place, Old Grey Cemetery, Happy Hollow, Fourth & Gill and Old North Knoxville Historic districts. The adopted redevelopment district which is smaller in size attempts to be inclusive of the commercial areas and exclusive of the residential areas.