At a City Council work session on September 28, 2010, City Manager Neil Morgan provided an update on the Southeast Community redevelopment initiatives. Below is the City Manager's memo to City Council regarding the update and a link to the PowerPoint presentation that was provided at the meeting. 

Any questions regarding the Southeast Community Redevelopment efforts can be directed to Joy Robison in the Department of Development at (757) 926-8428 or jrobison@nngov.com.

CITY OF NEWPORT NEWS

OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER

September 22, 2010

TO: The Honorable City Council

FROM: City Manager

SUBJECT: Southeast Community Redevelopment Update

At your September 28, 2010 Work Session, I plan to make a presentation updating you on Southeast Community Redevelopment initiatives. This presentation is a follow-up to my presentation at your November 10, 2009 Work Session. At that time, we discussed focusing our limited available resources on the Jefferson Avenue Corridor in order to create visible progress in the near term, while setting the stage for other long term redevelopment work in the future.

Subsequent activities have been consistent with the direction Council provided last fall through appropriation of funds and CIP approval, and have been guided by the Jefferson Avenue Corridor Study, which Council adopted September 8, 2009. Staff has made significant progress on these initiatives and I look forward to reporting on what has been accomplished to date, as well as current and ongoing efforts. At the end of open session, I would ask that we go into closed session to discuss the status of negotiations of certain public and private properties that may be impacted by our focus on the Jefferson Avenue Corridor.

It is my hope that as a result of the Work Session, Council will provide staff with further guidance on continuing our redevelopment strategy so that we have a clear understanding of how to proceed on these specific initiatives in the coming months.
 

PowerPoint presentation