Neighborhood Strategy - Greater Corktown
To support the vision for Greater Corktown, the City has identified Critical Community Improvements and additional projects that will enhance public spaces, create safer and more accessible streets, increase resident access to services and community supports, and position Corktown to become one of the City’s most sustainable and resilient neighborhoods.
The City has identified four key neighborhood objectives:
- Ensure safe, healthy streets and improve pedestrian connectivity
- Increase access to community amenities and resident services
- Create new and improved public spaces
- Strengthen and ensure community environmental resiliency
As part of the City's Choice Neighborhoods plan, neighborhood projects will include:
- Developing the Ash Street Ecological Corridor with street tree plantings, installation of bike lanes, enhanced pedestrian crossings, and the tactical installation of vegetative planters
- Improving the 14th Street Cultural Corridor, Rosa Parks Boulevard, and Bagley Street
- Enhancing pedestrian safety along Michigan Avenue
- Developing a Community Empowerment Center at the former Owen School site that will serve as a neighborhood anchor in North Corktown and provide supportive services for residents, such as early-childhood education, extracurricular activities for school-age children, and health and wellness resources
- Improvement of street safety and connectivity and multimodal accessibility to amenities and across neighborhoods
- Unifying Roosevelt Park to create an 8-acre, contiguous public space that will provide needed amenities and serve as a gathering space for residents
- Integrating green infrastructure and developing active landscapes within all proposed critical community improvements
Transformation Plan Neighborhood Improvements
