Twenty-Five year Master Plan - Main Street Landing Company

1. Site of Project - Burlington central waterfront area. Approximately 7 acres of land at the foot of College Street Extending north to Depot Street and extending south to King street. Site area includes the Union Station and a 6,000 square foot office building at 102 Lake Street.
   
   
2. Summary of Project Plan - A low-scale, mixed use project integrating service retail, office, and residential (all income levels to comply with inclusionary zoning requirements). This mix will assure day and night activity and security, and will be accessible to all of Burlington's citizens and visitors, even in cold and inclement weather. Project will be phased in over a twenty-five year period. Focus primarily on Vermont businesses and retail establishments in order to create a unique "local" environment different from the Church Street marketplace thereby complementing rather than competing with business up town.
   
   
3. Union Station Site site is a commercial building and Train Station. This building also houses Arts Alive which manages a rotating visual arts gallery. Small spaces accommodate small local artists, non-profits, and businesses. The building is 100 years old, and soon, some day, it will host the return of passenger rail to the Western Corridor of Vermong - bringing people from New York and Washington, through Burlington and north to Montreal.
   
   
4. 102 Lake Street Property - "The Neighborhood" 4 acres 77 residences with office and retail. Community neighborhood with strong socio-economic spread - young, old, rich, poor, families, students, and retired people living together. Service retail primarily will serve the neighborhood with laundromat, movie theater, small grocery store, fish market, meat market, baker, daycare center, hardware store, café, neighborhood tavern, etc. etc. Tight streets and alleyways. Offices will be for the most part small entrepreneurial businesses similar to Pine Street, with an iron work sculpture studio and perhaps stables for the carriage horses that ply the Burlington Streets in the summer. Perhaps a farmers market. Also, this is the location where one might find a sixty-room Waterfront Inn.
   
   
5. Corner of Lake and College - The Lake and College Redevelopment Project - 113,000 square feet of commercial space, with 30,000 square feet of common area with public access, and a performing arts center with a Black Box Theatre and Assembly Hall and Cinema. This project created 18,000 square feet of additional park space for the City, including an outdoor amphitheater. See Lake & College Project for more details.
   
   
6. Union Station Parcel - "The Cultural/Commercial Center" Property Acreage - three acres - Phase one is complete with the CornerStone Building, the Wing Building, and the renovation of the Union Station. Residential is minimal on this site and includes all income levels. Artists' studios and apartments will be available on this site. Union Station and the Wing are presently occupied by artists, craftspeople, small businesses, a theater group, and non-profits. We see the rest of the site developing into an environment that supports many cultural and creative people and uses, developing from the sense of spirit that the Union Station has evolved. There will be plenty of retail with the thought of creating small shops, eating places, specialty stores, with an emphasis on genuine Vermont products, local character, and needs associated with waterfront life. Clothing stores, craft shops, an art gallery, nightclub, and small performing arts theater also might be found on this site.