Village of Amityville Downtown Revitalization Initiative
BJH was the project manager and prime consultant for the State of New York, managing a multi-disciplinary team that developed a Downtown Revitalization Strategic Action Plan for the Village of Amityville in Nassau County, Long Island. The Downtown Revitalization Initiative provided 19 towns throughout New York State with $100 million total in downtown revitalization funds.
Amityville, a 2.5 square mile Incorporated Village in Suffolk County along the Long Island Rail Road, was selected for the initiative by the Long Island Regional Economic Development Council. BJH led a team in coordinating a committee of local stakeholders, executing public engagement events, studying existing conditions, and identifying projects to help bring about the revitalization of the downtown. Once projects were identified, BJH and its team prepared an implementation plan that identified the cost of the project, regulatory processes, and partners to implement each of the projects.
Projects included a complete streets revamp of the Village’s main corridor; a new pedestrian plaza; a revitalization of the Village’s centerpiece Triangle Park; a revitalization of the commercial attraction program that would provide grants to downtown businesses for renovations; a comprehensive streetscape improvement plan that included street plantings, benches, new lighting, among other streetscape elements; and a redesign of the Long Island Rail Road connections to the downtown. The projects are expected to be implemented between 2023 and 2028.
