After months of thoughtful development, the City of Kannapolis is ready to release its new Center City Master Plan. This document has been prepared to provide the City of Kannapolis with a prioritized set of goals for the ongoing development and revitalization of the Center City.
Beginning with a joint meeting of the Kannapolis City Council and Planning Commission, this document will be shared with the public during a few different public input sessions. For more information on these sessions, contact Planning Director Ben Warren.
The plan and its recommendations are intended to complement and support, not supplant, other efforts that the City has undertaken in the furtherance of the redevelopment of the area following the departure of Pillowtex and the establishment of the North Carolina Research Campus.
The Center City has experienced drastic changes in the past decade. Once home to the expansive Cannon Mills textile manufacturing complex (later Pillowtex) and a thriving retail/factory outlet base that focused on home furnishings and textiles, today’s Center City is an emerging hub for scientific research.
This transformation has dramatically changed the face of the Center City. No longer is the landscape dominated by industrial buildings with their smokestacks towering over the mill houses that lie in their shadow, no longer do hundreds of cars drive in and out of the Center City at shift change, and no longer do the streets bustle with shoppers seeking bargains on high quality textiles and home furnishings. There is new energy around the emergent NC Research Campus in Center City and new priorities are required to support its development and success.
This plan will be used to focus the efforts of the City on those projects and issues that can make the most positive impacts on the future of Center City. And like all good plans, this is a living document that will need to be evaluated and updated as time passes to account for changing realities in the economy, City priorities and to account for the growth of the Center City.
To read the plan, please click here
http://www.cityofkannapolis.com/article_2011_01_28/CenterCityMasterPlanDraft20110126.pdf
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