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The Town of Cornelius, NC
Through the completion of main street, this project single-handedly transformed a deteriorating town core with no sense of place into a center of activity for the whole town.
As a return to “Main Street America,” the master plan delineates a new town infrastructure that predicts the locations of building types and amenities inherent to a selfsustainable community and for the invigoration of public life.
The project is the result of a public-private partnership directed towards the development of the eastern side of the Town of Cornelius. For this 100 year old town, Shook Kelley developed a master plan and provided the architectural design for a new downtown that consists of a new town hall and community center, “B” street retailing in the form of a modified food-anchored open center, and “A” street retail on the main vehicular way.
Replacing derelict buildings and championing careful and gradual development, this new district combines retail businesses, office space, single and multi-family residential units, green space, and civic/municipal uses. Located at the intersection of two main thoroughfares and a future rail transportation line, the first phases replaced more than ten acres of old mill buildings and occupies land that is bordered on all sides by existing residential communities.
As a return to “Main Street America,” the master plan delineates a new town infrastructure that predicts the locations of building types and amenities inherent to a selfsustainable community and for the invigoration of public life.
The project is the result of a public-private partnership directed towards the development of the eastern side of the Town of Cornelius. For this 100 year old town, Shook Kelley developed a master plan and provided the architectural design for a new downtown that consists of a new town hall and community center, “B” street retailing in the form of a modified food-anchored open center, and “A” street retail on the main vehicular way.
Replacing derelict buildings and championing careful and gradual development, this new district combines retail businesses, office space, single and multi-family residential units, green space, and civic/municipal uses. Located at the intersection of two main thoroughfares and a future rail transportation line, the first phases replaced more than ten acres of old mill buildings and occupies land that is bordered on all sides by existing residential communities.