High Performance Development Corridors

The Thing about Commercial “Strips”. Prevailing conditions. First, let’s be clear aboutour subject. The corridors of which we speak are roadways with blight strewn along their sides in the form of marginal businesses, uninviting restaurants, vacant and poorly maintained buildings, a wide array of gaudy signs, excessive driveway cuts and disorganized parking lots with too few trees. They are ugly to view, dangerous to drive and generally poorcontributors to the city’s economic andemployment base. Their vacant lands and buildings are unproductive economic assets for their owners and the city.