I Love Greenville Community Plan
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I Love Greenville Community Plan The I Love Greenville Community Plan (GCP) began as a tool to generate investment for projects identified by residents, but it became much more than that. Over a 10-month period more than 500 residents and stakeholders have actively participated in the making of this plan. It has become a vehicle for the community to collaborate and organize in order to respond to existing and potential community issues. Uniting Greenville is an effective way to direct city, county, state and even attract private sector resources to the community. So if you are reading this and it is the first time you have heard of the I Love Greenville Community Plan please become involved. A neighborhood plan, like this one, supplements and provides feedback on existing redevelopment plans, master plan elements, and other strategies. It also opens up doors to new funding opportunities. This particular plan was developed specifically for the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs (NJDCA) Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit (NRTC) program. If approved by NJDCA this will be one of the last plans accepted into the program. This is a huge opportunity, especially in a time of decreased private capital and broad, government funding cuts due to a down economy. That being said, NRTC funding alone is not likely to fix all issues in Greenville but it is a resource, not currently available, that will certainly help the Community. Facilitated by Garden State Episcopal Community Development Corporation (GSECDC) in collaboration with several non-profit organizations, residents, churches, block associations, and others stakeholders - the Plan seeks to address and improve quality of life issues in Greenville. It also aims to solicit one million dollars of state tax credits to Greenville each year for life of the Neighborhood Revitalization Tax Credit program. The intent is to create new programs or supplement effective programs that residents in the community have identified. The planning area encompasses a portion of Greenville centering on Martin Luther King Drive from Union Street to Woodlawn Avenue between Bergen Avenue to Ocean Avenue. December 2012 For more Information please contact: Garden State Episcopal Community Development Corporation Division of Housing and Economic Development 514 Newark Ave Jersey City NJ 07306 P: 201-209-9301 Prepared by: Garden State Episcopal Community Development Corporation, Division of Housing and Community Development TRIAD Associates Steering Committee GSECDC Staff AngelaCARES, Inc. Angela McKnight John Restrepo Astor Place Block Association Tinia Bland and Deborah Alston Matt Ward Bergen Communities United Tynisha Beard TRIAD Associates Building an Empire Alisha Powers Jerry Velazquez Christ the King Parish Rosemary Nwabueze Steve Kehs Claremont Lafayette United Presbyterian Church Celestine Shaw Shane Godshall C-line Community Outreach Services Caroline Nelson, Rose Howard and Loukia Altenor James G. Johnson and Karla Melendez College Preparatory Incentive Program Funders Annette Joyner-Jackson Friends of the Lifers Youth Corp New Jersey Department of Community Affairs Edward Chiles Hudson County Contractor Training Corporation Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Jackson Hill Main Street Management Corp Michael Griffin Jersey City Parks Coalition Florence Holmes Special Thanks to NAACP Alma Burnett, Calvin E. Hart and Carolyn Oliver-Fair Senator, Sandra B. Cunningham Old Greenville Neighborhood Association Arnold B. Williams Mayor Jerramiah Healy Positively Reinforcing Youth Development (PRYD) Cornelius Frazier and Cheronne Cheatam Councilwoman-at-Large, Viola Richardson Rising Tide Capital Alex Forrester, Justyna Krygowska and Mary Sansait Councilwoman, Michelle Massey Snyder High School Parent Council Monique Andrews Councilman-at-Large, Rolando Lavarro Urban League of Hudson County Gladys Payton and Hansel Cabrera Jersey City Housing Authority Wilkinson Ave Block Association Wyatt Bradley Jersey City Redevelopment Authority Kim B. Greene Resident Survey Volunteers Regina Hill Resident, Snyder High School Parent Council Cheronne Cheatam Daniqua McKnight James Johnson Resident, Architect, A.D.E. Inc. Andrea Coble Anayah McKnight-Odom Evans Jones Resident & Real Estate Agent, Nextage New Generation Cornelius Frazier Tiffany McQueary Tiffany McQueary Resident, Marist High School Mary Hurt Robert Morales Rose Moultrie Resident, Rose Creations Savitri Pairam Donna Sweringen Resident, Catholic Charities Jordan Johnson Tawana Williams Resident, Civics for the Emerging Activist Jamaal Johnson Linda Wade Evans Jones Arnold B. Williams Angela McKnight Briyana Williams TABLE OF CONTENTS SECTION 1: Cover Page (NP-1 Form) ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 1 SECTION 2: Executive Summary ............................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 SECTION 3: Neighborhood Description and Statement of Need ............................................................................................................................................................. 6 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 7 Need for Neighborhood Revitalization ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 7 Demographics ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 9 Economics .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Housing .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 12 Social Issues ....................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 14 SECTION 4: Vision, Goals and Proposed Strategies & Activities ............................................................................................................................................................ 17 Vision Statement ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Goals .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 19 Outcomes, Strategies and Activities or Methods .............................................................................................................................................................................. 21 Review of Existing Plans ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 29 SECTION 5: Projected Outcomes ........................................................................................................................................................................................................... 33 1. Residential and Community Development Strategies ................................................................................................................................................................... 35 2. Corridor Improvement Strategies .................................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 3. Education and Training Strategies ................................................................................................................................................................................................. 41 4. Health and Human Services Strategies .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 45 5. Public Safety Improvement Strategies ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 48 6. Transportation Improvement Strategies ......................................................................................................................................................................................