The HOPE VI-funded Bradenton Village Master Plan is a 39-acre an infill TND project in Bradenton, Florida, 1-1/4 miles southeast of Downtown Bradenton, part of the Sarasota-Bradenton Metropolitan area.

In June 2000, a charrette was conducted with Telesis Corporation and the Bradenton Housing Authority to bring together a design team of professionals, city officials, and residents to brainstorm a vision for their community. Contact Cooper Johnson Smith Architects to view the Charrette Report.

A new village green and relocated community center is the focus of this redeveloped Federal Housing Project, adjoining the existing Singletary and Washington neighborhoods, and a greenfield site named Rousch Field. The master plan provides 160 townhouse units, with 4 detached carriage house units on rear lanes, in the Rousch Field area of the site and 96 single-family detached houses, varying in typology and density, replacing federal housing in Roger's Garden. Townhouses fill the Rousch Field site, Sideyard houses front the Village Green and major thoroughfares, as bungalows and cottages complete the neighborhood general zone of Roger's Garden and mesh with the existing urban scale of the adjacent neighborhoods.

The Village Center serves the entire Bradenton Village and the surrounding neighborhoods with a Child Care Center, library, and community center, while smaller neighborhood greens serve as more intimate centers for the east and west halves of the village. These neighborhood greens each have associated civic buildings to serve the residents' recreational and civic needs. Two boulevards reinforce axes between prominent public spaces with civic structures terminating them. The neighborhood greens hinge on the Village Greenway, which forms a network throughout the project site and the City of Bradenton. A 2.2 acre naturalistic water retention lake is part of the village's greenway and buffers the incompatible, industrial land uses at the south and southwest borders of the project site. Other civic structures and public spaces are strategically located throughout the village to create an interconnected public realm. A final phase of construction will be devoted to infill single-family housing in the adjacent Washington and Singletary neighborhoods.


 

 

 

Project Status: Under Construction
Bradenton Village Master Plan showing Neighborhood Square, Childcare Center, and mixture of three housing typologies.

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