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Jamestown, the vibrant urban center of the region
By preserving the best from its past, addressing current challenges, and capturing emerging opportunities, downtown Jamestown can establish itself as a vibrant and attractive urban center for the region. The benefits of an attractive, vital, and physically cohesive downtown extend well beyond the boundaries of Jamestown itself, enhancing the attractiveness of the entire region as a center of business, tourism, and as a place to live.
No single action by itself can restore downtown’s vitality. Such a transformation can only grow out of multiple coordinated activities over time, and only a combination of public and private-sector investment can preserve downtown’s strength as an employment center, while enhancing its appeal to regional residents and visitors.
This change will not occur overnight, but in phases over several years. This plan provides a guiding framework that will ensure that individual initiatives advanced by public, private and nonprofit entities complement each other and reflect an overarching vision for downtown’s future. Significant near-term actions and investment will be needed to build on the recent community successes that have stemmed disinvestment and decline.
The Chadakoin River today
The vibrant waterfront along Montreal’s Lachine Canal
is a compelling mix of industrial structures and new
public destinations and open spaces.
Swan boats attract families and visitors to Boston’s
Public Garden, bringing the area to life.
The Urban Design Plan embodies a vision of a downtown that is the region’s great urban setting – a place to live, work and play.
It rests on three fundamental initiatives:
- Transform the Chadakoin riverfront into a regional waterfront destination by developing new public open spaces on the river’s banks; introducing water-related activities and events; creating a destination-tourism attraction; building enhanced public access and new connections to the lake; and encouraging residential development.
- Strengthen the downtown core through a combination of new development, streetscape improvements and programming. Promote new residential development, create an arts and heritage trail, complete the West End redevelopment initiative, build connections to the riverfront, improve the design of downtown gateways and improve traffic and circulation.
- Adopt and promote higher design standards for new development to ensure compatibility with Jamestown’s character and architectural heritage. Standards will ensure that even modest and incremental changes downtown are in harmony with the community’s vision and contribute to creating a more vital and cohesive place.
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