The document discusses opportunities and goals for revitalizing the Russell neighborhood in Louisville, KY over both the short and long term. It identifies impediments like racial segregation and disinvestment that have isolated the community for over 60 years. In the short term, it proposes creating an environment for reinvestment through initiatives like engaging historic preservation groups and using tax credits to renovate buildings. It also suggests reprogramming the African American Heritage Center and bringing in professional event management. Long term interventions may take over 15 years to have impact but establishing short term actions is important. The document outlines tools and funding sources that could support redevelopment.
10. Long Term Physical Community
Isolation >60 Years
• Race/Class Based Land Policy Planning
• Post 1964 Civil Rights Statutory Equal
Access Legislation
• Concentration of Special Needs Public
Investment
• Private Sector Financial Disinvestment
• No investment in physical Indicators that
community is part of the city
11. Long Term Psyche-Social Isolation
>60 Years
• Inability of the Community to Control its
Own Narrative, to Tell One’s Own Story
• Distorted Reporting About Crime
• Middle Class Flight to “Better”
Neighborhoods with greater opportunity
structures
12. Interventions
• Long Term
– Some interventions will take long periods of
time to structure financially
– Some interventions will take long periods to
have demonstrable and visible impacts
• Short Term
– All long term interventions start with short
term actions
15. Short Term: Create Environment for
Reinvestment
• Get National Trust for Historic
Preservation- Preserving African American
Heritage sites engaged in Mammoth Life
Building (Brent Leggs) (6th
and Ali)
• Use Historic Tax Credit Finance structure
to convert upper floors Green Market Rate
Residential & Renovate Bank Space
16. Short Term: Create Environment for
Reinvestment
• Provide Portland (community like) street
signs pointing direction and distance to
Shawnee Park; African American Heritage
Center; Ohio River; Historic churches on
Ali (starting at 6th
Street and Ali)
• Partner with University of Louisville to
develop geo-located self guided cultural
tour along Ali for mobile devices
17. Short Term: Create Environment for
Reinvestment
• Provide street improvements from 6th
Street
along Ali to 18th
Street
– Historic period street lighting
– Street furniture
– Trees
– Partner with Kentucky School of Art and
University of Louisville to display student
outdoor art along Ali from 6th
to African
American Heritage Center
18. Short Term: Reprogram the African
American Heritage Center
• Develop broader and deeper Community
Partnerships & Uses (University of Louisville,
Simmons College of Kentucky; Kentucky School of the
Arts)
– Rotating shared exhibit space for university
affiliated, high school affiliated and independent
visual artist
– On site teaching location for academic
institutions with African American History, Music
and Theater programs. Both teaching and
performances.
19. Short Term: Reprogram the African
American Heritage Center
• Develop Weekday and Weekend Activity
– Farmers Market One Weekday and on
Saturdays
– Local Craft and Flee Market Saturday
20. Short Term: Reprogram the African
American Heritage Center
• Bring in a Professional Event Manager
• 145,000 Events per Year World Wide
• Owns/manages more than 150 venues across the US from
300 seats to 30,000 seats
21. Pre-development
• Vision/strategies for area
• Committed leadership/dedicated staff
• Assess Economic Realities – Metro/Neighborhood
• Barrier Removal: code constraints, infrastructure
impediments, access/transportation hurdles
• Strategic site identification/assembly: friendly
hands
• Factor life cycle costs (capital and operating) – set
sustainable targets/measures
• Micro and Macro Impacts
• Align Partners: public, private, non-profit
25. Choosing the $ tools
Economic/
fiscal viability
(revenue-generating capacity,
stability and predictability,
administrative ease, flexibility
of use, etc.)
Fairness
(e.g., who pays and who
benefits?)
Political
acceptability
Legality
26. Redevelopment Toolkit Options
• Development Driven
• FAT (Fees/Assessments/Taxes)
• Leveraging Fed Funds
• Other People’s Money
• SMOs (Still More Options)
27. Development Driven
• Tax Increment Financing (area based)
• Development Bonuses
• Transfer Development Rights
• Impact Fees (sole source)
37. RUSSELL ARTS AND CULTURE DISTRICT
Kentucky Center for African American Heritage River City Bank
18th
Street
6th
Street
9th
Street
Old Walnut Street Park
Creative Placemaking Opportunities
13th
Street
39. CREATIVE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Street and Sidewalk Markings
18th
Street
6th
Street
9th
Street
13th
Street
Student achievement Gateway art
Youth discovery and supportOutdoor art classes
40. CREATIVE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Envision Russell Campaign
18th
Street
6th
Street
9th
Street
13th
Street
Gateway artYouth aspirationsI wish this was…Heritage discovery
41. CREATIVE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Arts and Music
18th
Street
6th
Street
9th
Street
13th
Street
Oral History
Flea Markets
Sidewalk art galleriesHeritage discovery
43. CREATIVE PLACEMAKING OPPORTUNITIES: Russell History
18th
Street
6th
Street
9th
Street
13th
Street
Historic Preservation
Community history
Heritage discovery
62. Russell St. Civic Infrastructure: 21st
Century
Working Groups/ Task Forces
• Housing/Lifestyle
• Health and Education
• Training and Capacity
Building
• Science and
Technology
• Planning, Zoning and
Development
• Workforce Development &
Entrepreneurship
• Engagement &
Communications
• Environment/Materials
• Transportation/Parking
• Metrics/Data/Evaluation
• Human/Social Capital
• External Relations
63. Characteristics of a Healthy Civic
Culture
• Strive for win-win, not win-lose
outcomes
• Agree on the “texts”: pre-, con-,
sub-, post-
• Define the end-result first
• Document disagreements
• Train volunteer facilitators and
scribes
• Manage ultra-democratic urges
• Make consensus-based decisions
• Focus on results, not effort
• Collaborate, cooperate,
congratulate
• Evaluate performance