Our long term goals include the development and building of trust, tolerance and interaction among people of three different sectors of the City of Rochester (Sectors 7,8,10).
We believe that these changes can begin by physically improving the area that bridges the three sectors, the intersections of East Main Street, North Goodman and Circle Street.
The intersection of East Main Street, North Goodman and Circle Street
is an icon of both urban separation and convergence.
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Railroad tracks, an overpass, and six lanes of traffic separate rich from poor and black from white. More than 20,000 vehicles pass through the intersection daily, making it virtually impassable to pedestrians.
Visually this area is most unappealing.
We begin with these immediate objectives:
- Symbolically and functionally bridge the area where these three sectors meet. This is also the entries to the Public Market (sector 10) and the Beechwood Area (sector 8) on the north side of Main Street and to the Neighborhood of the Arts on the south side (sector 7).
- Create an impressive and welcoming gateway into the City, as well as to the northern and southern areas just mentioned.
- Enhance and increase market activity and thereby economic activity in the area in general. This will be tied as well to the historic buildings on E. Main Street (the Armory, the Eastman Dental Dispensary and the Auditorium Theatre), thereby improving more than the immediate area mentioned.
- Redesign of the traffic arrangement at the intersection and over the railroad bridge for the purpose of improving safety and use by pedestrians and efficiency for motorists.
