Safeway Mixed Use Development
Action Outline
- Ongoing participation in site debate over "Big Box" proposals since 1990
- Coalitionbuilding, dialogue elevation
- Development of loftier goals to stimulate evolved dialogue and penetrate conceptual impasses.
- Design of an idealized solution to expand the definitions of the "possible"
Action Outcome
- Public rejection of several "Big Box" proposals
- Elevated expectations for future proposals to include mixed use components
- Initiation of focused Economic Study re: Mixed Use feasibility
- Initiation of Specific Area plan to address broader downtown area.
- Interest by numerous developers in supporting mixed use project
Action Features
- Numerous educational presentations about neighborhood-making.
- Numerous alternative designs to depict both proposals and goals.
Final design of idealized project:
- Neighborhood scale mixed use development as response to Big Box retail proposal.
- Appropriate neighborhood scale and character.
- 45,000 sf retail anchor
- 40,000 sf neighborhood retail
- 50,000 sf neighborhood office
- 54 - 76 living units, pending market focus
