Neighborhood Highlights

The Neighborhood Strategy will be implemented by the City of Knoxville. Resident and partner engagement helped to identify the needs and shape the goals and strategies for Western Heights, including: 1. Ensure the neighborhood is safe for all. 2. Increase transportation choices. 3. Create quality green spaces, parks, and recreation amenities. 4. Strengthen arts, culture, and entrepreneurship to anchor the community. 5. Ensure new and renovated housing in Western Heights feels like a cohesive community. The City of Knoxville has committed $25 million in funding to support a new world-class destination park, new streets, and site grading. KCDC is seeking an additional $18 million in philanthropic funding to support the creation of amenities and programming that respond to the residents’ and neighborhood’s needs. Three Critical Community Improvements (CCIs) will be the center of the neighborhood transformation: 1. Anchor Building — An arts, culture, and entrepreneurship anchor will offer economic vitality in a culturally-specific environment. 2. Destination Park — A world-class park will include spray pads, a gathering lawn, a hillside climbing park, and walking paths. 3. Support for Local Businesses — Transforming Western will supplement the city’s

Facade Improvement Program and provide existing businesses with small business support and entrepreneurship resources.

CCI #1 ANCHOR BUILDING

CCI #2 DESTINATION PARK

CCI #3 SUPPORT FOR LOCAL BUSINESSES

NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of East Tennesse • Boys & Girls Club of the Tennessee Valley • Boy Scouts of America • Brinshore Development • City of Knoxville • East Tennessee Housing Development

Corporation • Empower Knox • ETHRA Transit • Girl Scouts of Southern Appalachians • Great Smoky Mountain Council • KCDC • Knox County Schools Transportation

Department • Knoxville Area Transit (KAT) • Knoxville-Knox County CAC, CAC Transit • Knoxville Police Department • Legacy Parks Foundation • Mayor’s Youth Council • Metropolitan Drug Coalition Youth

Council THRIVE Mentoring • Western Heights Residents • YWCA Game Changers Program

Destination park and Arts & Culture anchor building

Renovated 1938 buildings