Project Connect Our Plan
Project Connect Our Plan
Resources
Through Project Connect, SLDC is working to ensure disinvested areas don’t get left behind during future growth and development — and that residents, business owners and community stakeholders have their voice and vision heard during the planning and redevelopment process.
Existing Resources
in Project Connect
Two plans adopted by the City of St. Louis Planning Commission provide guidance for development and investment in the area today, A Plan for the Neighborhoods of the 5th Ward, and JeffVanderLou Neighborhood Plan. Additionally, several redevelopment plans exists in the area driving other projects. Other non-adopted plans such as the Old North St. Louis Sustainability Plan guide local decision-making as well.
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The St. Louis Economic Justice Action Plan has identified this area as a demonstration area for economic transformation, which includes the primary goals to strengthen neighborhoods, close the wealth gap, improve health and education outcomes, expand the tax base, and to grow the city’s population. This demonstration area has the most transformative catalytic development, the new National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. Additionally, the zoning overlay, the Geospatial Protection and Enhancement Special Use District, has been enacted around the National Geospatial Agency, extending into the neighborhoods.