Core Investment Areas
During the drafting of the Imagine Duluth 2035 Comprehensive Plan residents expressed a desire for enhanced connections to vibrant, walkable neighborhood centers that became referred to as Core Investment Areas.
A Core Investment Area (CIA) provides people with essential amenities within a compact, walkable area. Essential amenities may include:
- Grocery or store selling fresh foods and staples
- Developed park or open space
- Pharmacy
- Transit stop
- Small restaurant, coffee shop, tavern
- Post office or shipping center
- Gas station
- Bank or credit union
- Elementary school
- Day care
- Medical clinic
- Barber or hair salon
The Imagine Duluth 2035 plan included a list of areas for which the City intends to create CIA plans.
A Core Investment Area Plan will:
- Gather input from residents, business owners, and other stakeholders on community elements that are working and what changes they’d like to see made.
- Analyze the transportation systems in the area to determine to what extent they serve all users, regardless of age or mobility, and propose improvements.
- Review utility infrastructure for needed upgrades to serve existing needs and future development/redevelopment.
- Consider parcel layouts with regard to anticipated land development/redevelopment and propose consolidations or subdivisions.
- Propose changes to City ordinances or the expanded implementation of current ordinances to create the environment for a successful CIA.
- Recommend additional resources needed to incentivize private sector participation in the development/redevelopment of the CIA.
Core Investment Area Plans:
For information about Core Investment Area Plans, please contact:
Kyle Deming, Senior Planner
kdeming@duluthmn.gov, 218-730-5580