Visioning Town Center Online Activities
Your voice helps shape the future of East Aldine Town Center. While online visioning activities have now closed, you can look forward to the draft Phase III Concept Plan coming in December 2025
Draft Design Concept
Narrative
The East Aldine Town Center Phase 3 project focuses on planning and designing a site that empowers the East Aldine community through improved economic opportunities, enhanced community capacity, and the creation of an inviting public space. The design emphasizes community-centered programs and open spaces that encourage gathering, recreation, and connection, while also fostering local entrepreneurship to ensure that investment remains within the community.
How will we do this?
+ Establishing an Active Frontage along Aldine Mail Route
+ Creating High-Quality Community Gathering Spaces
+ Fostering Community Capacity Building
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Phases of Development
Descriptions
Phase 1 – Establish the Central Hub
Phase 1 focuses on building upon the existing open spaces to create a vibrant central hub for the Town Center. A signature structure along Aldine Mail Route will serve as the focal point for farmers market events, drawing public attention and activity to the site. Supporting buildings for retail, community space, and a food hall will form the foundational core of the Town Center, establishing a strong sense of place and setting the stage for future growth.
Phase 2 – Bridge the Gaps
Building on the success of Phase 1, Phase 2 will expand the Town Center by filling in key gaps and introducing additional buildings to strengthen the site’s overall cohesion. A new structure to the south will include a parking garage with a conference room above, enhancing both functionality and flexibility. Open spaces will be extended to connect the new developments, creating a seamless pedestrian experience. A building with a modest setback from Aldine Mail Route will further activate the street frontage and strengthen the site’s visual identity.
Phase 3 – Complete the Vision
Phase 3 will bring the Town Center vision to completion through the addition of two new buildings to the south, accommodating retail and office spaces. These final elements will reinforce the Town Center as a thriving, multi-functional destination for commerce, community, and connection.
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Open Space Features
Implementation
Mapping
Connecting
Connecting Town Center
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Visioning
Developing
Developing Town Center
How should we develop the next phase of Town Center? Provide your feedback on each development type below.
Retail
Uses such as stores selling products, goods, or food, ranging in size from small storefronts to large-format supermarkets.
Services
Specific uses could include restaurants, cafes, banks, beauty salons, pet grooming services, and print and copy shops
Health and Wellness
Uses such as clinics, pharmacies, urgent care facilities, gymnasiums, and fitness centers.
Arts and Culture
Uses such as event spaces, performing art venues, museums, galleries, and cultural centers.
Employment
Uses such as traditional offices, coworking spaces, artists' and creative studios, and small artisan production spaces.
Open Space
Uses such as public plazas, grassy lawns, parks, trails, and outdoor recreation areas.
Low-Density Residential
Uses such as single-family homes, duplexes, triplexes, or fourplexes.
Mid-Density Residential
Uses such as town homes, low-rise multifamily housing, and vecindades (communal multifamily housing originally popularized in Mexico City).
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Reference Map
Town Center and project boundary map.
