Fairfax Renaissance Development Corp.
Master Plan & Strategic Investment Plan
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In the mid-1990s, the Fairfax Renaissance Development Corporation (FRDC) initiated a comprehensive master planning effort designed to be a powerful catalyst for launching sustainable community and economic development for the Fairfax neighborhood. |
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| The master planning
process brought together community residents, institutional and commercial stakeholders, and governmental
entities to create a shared vision for the redevelopment and revitalization
of Fairfax into an attractive, desirable, and vibrant mixed-income
neighborhood.
Under the direction of Urban Design Associates, a series of fact-finding town meetings, individual interviews, and design charrettes, or workshops, were conducted. The needs, aspirations, and concerns of all stakeholders were enthusiastically solicited and received at these meetings and the process served to rekindle the strong community spirit and pride that continues today.
During its first five years, the housing program initiated through the Fairfax Renaissance Master Plan produced a total of 200 new houses and 500 rehabilitated houses within the neighborhood. FRDC continued its revitalization efforts by building the new 85,000 sq. ft. Quincy Place Building which houses much needed community services (including the Cuyahoga County Social Services and a daycare center) and also provides both equity and cash flow for the community development corporation. |
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In September 2001, FRDC commissioned Urban Design Associates to update the Fairfax Renaissance Master Plan Report of 1998. Adopted in December 2003, the Strategic Investment Plan is designed to serve as a framework for decision-making - a guide FRDC can use as it encourages and evaluates development proposals for projects that will make Fairfax an even better place to live and work. |
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| FRDC
has forged effective relationships with many large institutions -
the City of Cleveland, Cuyahoga County and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation -
making it possible for the neighborhood to play a pivotal role in bringing new
economic uses to the area. The infusion of new investment in the area will provide
job opportunities for existing residents, as well as attract additional new residential
development that will help Fairfax achieve its dual goals of continuing to improve
the existing housing stock and expanding the range of income of people residing
in the neighborhood. |
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The Strategic Investment Plan identifies four areas that offer such opportunities: Cedar Avenue, Quincy Avenue, Woodland Avenue and the Fairfax New Economy neighborhood. District initiatives for each area will attract, focus and coordinate public and private investment in new public uses and residential development. Quincy Avenue Initiatives
OverviewAs one of only two east/west arterials running through the center of Fairfax, Quincy Avenue is the seam that ties Fairfax’s three residential neighborhoods together. Quincy Avenue is also the home of various community assets including several churches and institutions including Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Greater Gospel Temple, the new FRDC and County offices and daycare facility in Quincy Place, Fairfax Park and Recreation Center, Saint Adalbert Catholic Church and School, Olivet Institutional Baptist Church, the Otis Moss, Jr.-University Hospitals Medical Center, Karamu House, and an RTA light rail stop at East 105th Street. As anchors of the Fairfax community, these institutions, coupled with the success and positive energy created by both Quincy Place and the proposed Youth Intervention Center at East 93rd Street, are obvious springboards for future investment and improvements to the Quincy Avenue corridor. |
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