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City of Chesapeake South Norfolk Redevelopment/Conservation Areas
Overview
The Chesapeake Redevelopment & Housing Authority along with the Economic Development Department of the City of Chesapeake sought to revitalize the historic downtown South Norfolk area in keeping with a previously adopted Poindexter Corridor Strategic Development Plan. A project area was laid out encompassing 316 parcels and 262 retail, commercial, and residential buildings in various stages of dilapidation with a goal of delineating and developing plans for one or more redevelopment and/or conservation areas in keeping with Title 36 of the Code of Virginia.
Approach
Community Planning Partners conducted an initial blight assessment of the entire project area followed by structural evaluations by Housing Consultant Services and Dunbar, Milby, Williams, Bittman, & Vaughan. Two redevelopment areas and two conservation areas were determined to be Title 36 eligible. Eligibility reports and redevelopment/ conservation plans, preliminary cost estimates including infrastructure improvements, and cost benefit analyses were written for each area. Estimated costs totaled $42 million.
Hill Studio provided illustrative plans for one redevelopment area with Urban Design Associates providing illustrative plans for the other redevelopment area through a previous planning process. Plans call for the area to be redeveloped as the South Norfolk Village Center with new clustered retail, new mixed-use development, and stabilization of adjoining residential neighborhoods.
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