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KEEP: • Preserve the history, identity, strong character, and church community within the Northeast. • Preserve existing commercial activity. • Preserve senior care and housing programs, as well as housing assistance programs for all eligible residents. • Preserve and maintain the neighborhood’s unique architecture and character including its front porches, yards, setbacks, and general small-town feel. • Preserve the community’s green spaces and parks. • Preserve the community’s assets including the Alston-Massenburg Center, Ailey Young House, Olive Branch Church, Wake Forest Cemetery, and Ailey Young Park.
PLAN: • Promote food security and increase the availability of fresh and healthy foods. • Create more programming, activities, gathering places, and services for children, teenagers, and seniors in the neighborhood. • Add more sidewalks, trees, public art, and other amenities to the streets. • Add more commercial activity, including banking options, for local residents. • Strengthen connections to the adjacent communities and neighborhoods. • Tell the story of the Northeast through a museum, historic walk, and/or historic markers to help ground the community in it’s past and it’s future. • Improve existing public housing and maintenance efforts. • Increase park amenities to include new and varied activity areas.
Preservation of historically significant
Congruence in appearance among the
facilities, structures and grounds...
newer and older buildings...
It would be nice to create an
Ethnic Diversity, Affordability...
affordable housing neighborhood...
...preserve any green spaces...
More parks and natural areas...
...something to further economic well
...appropriate use of the
being for residents, something for their
Dubois Center...
heritage in the Dubois Center...
Chapter 1: Existing Conditions
Northeast Community Plan
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