This Specific Plan orchestrates all public and private investment toward the revitalization of Downtown. It begins with the transformation of the city’s historic main street from a disinvested state highway strip into its historic role as the central shopping district. The Plan calls for a pedestrian-oriented retail core along a redesigned main street, sets up a framework for an exciting new arts and entertainment district, and adds thousands of new housing units within a short walk to transit and services. The Plan has had a dramatic and positive effect on the downtown.

Before

Downtown Livermore before project began.

• Downtown Livermore declined over the past several decades as rapid office, commercial and residential development sprawled in outlying areas.

Assignment

• Guide downtown growth and development clear and implementable policies.
• Encourage downtown economic and create a lively city center.

Outcomes

Plan adopted February 2004

• Many elements of the Plan have already been built.
• First Street which will be transformed from a 4-lane state highway into a 2 lane pedestrian-oriented street; Flagpole Plaza will also be redesigned. Both to be completed by early 2006.
• The City of Livermore received a Comprehensive Planning Award from the Northern California Chapter of the APA in recognition of its downtown and other planning efforts.

In collaboration with:

The Concord Group, Meyer Mohaddes Associates, Inc., Carey & Company, JR Engineering, Inc., LSA Associates Inc.