Riviera Beach CRA

Date:

October 20 – 26, 2007

ROLE & PROGRAM:

The charrette developed a master plan Community Redevelopment Area along the working marine waterfront, residential neighborhoods, and a portion of Singer Island. Key components include the following:

• Ocean Mall remain a public beach with public access in a Caribbean style of architecture
• Naintain and enhance working waterfront
• Broadway (US Highway 1) and Blue Heron Boulevard as attractive mixed-use gateways into the community
• Avenue E becomes a mixed-use district with shopping and residences
• connect existing neighborhoods to the waterfront
• Tri-Rail station at 13th Avenue and Old Dixie Highway
• Economically feasible and “revenue driven” plan
• Multi-cultural facility in the immediate area
• Rebuild Newcomb Hall
• Balance of housing price ranges
• Improve city marina and Bicentennial park and keep them both public
• Improve streets and neighborhoods west of Broadway
• Evaluate the five previous plans
• Create a long-term strategy for mobile home parks
• Reconfigure the widening of Martin Luther King Boulevard, the historic main street